Last week, Google Docs has announced the addition of Forms within Google Spreadsheets. Very cool!

I finally got around to try it out this afternoon. Here are some of the steps I took while� exploring.

Sign into your google docs account and create a new spreadsheet. Click on the “Share” button and choose “to fill in form” then start editing your form.

My example was going to be a survey that I wanted teachers to fill out at our next professional development workshop, which happens to be “All About Google”. So I started adding questions and chose from a variety of possible answer types, such as text, paragraph text, multiple choice, checkboxes and choose from a list.

Just click on Save when finished and +Add a question when ready for the next one.

Once your form (survey) is complete, click “Next choose recipients”. That will take you to the next screenshot. You can now invite people by specific e-mails or copy and paste the provided weblink into a page or blog for anyone to find and fill out the form.

You also have a choice to “Let people see existing responses” or hide them from viewers, which seems to be the default.

The cool thing will be to see the results populate the spreadsheet I wonder if it will be live or if there will be a time lag. Very nice.� I like the way we will be able to show the correlation and interconnectedness of a survey and the corresponding date collection in a spreadsheet to our students.

Posted: 11. February, 2008 at 6:07 pm. Filed under: Collaboration, Web-based Tools.
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