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Google Forms Walkthrough

Posted by John Saddington on Oct 14, 2008

Every so often I find a web tool that is worth sharing a little more than just information.  The revamped Google Docs toolset, especially the Google Forms, is one of those.  It essentially puts Survey Monkey out of a job in my opinion because it’s simply integrated with the other google products, but I do have to put my caveat in here… it’s still in BETA (and it really is, reports of “bugginess” have been found).

In any case, I like one-stop-shop apps because I’m lazy to go anywhere else.

Google Forms can easily create forms, surveys, and the like, and has built-in reporting as well.  So here’s the quick and dirty on how to create your first form, and then just imagine the possibilities.

Hook one up for your next ministry gig, activity, survey, etc!

1.  Get to your Google and Sign in!

2.  Start entering in data!  Put your Form Name, and then questions.  Choose from drop downs, to text boxes, check boxes, etc…

3. Hit “Save” and then check it out!

4.  There she is…

5. Try it out and hit “Submit”.

6. Then go see the “analysis”.

7.  Wow.  That’s pretty.

8. Check it out as it exports to Google Spreadsheets… and then Excel!

9.  Voila.  You’re a pro.  Now go make another one.

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John Saddington

John is the Chief Editor @ The 8BIT Network and Senior Blog Junkie here at ChurchCrunch.He enjoys Triple-Tall Americanos, developing Wordpress Themes, and a few other Random Things.

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8 Responses to “Google Forms Walkthrough”

  1. Bubba
    Wednesday, October 22, 2008 at 5:37 am

    John, thanks for putting this little tutorial together. I had completely forgotten that Forms were in Google Docs now. This will save me some time and $$ this week.

    Peace and blessings,
    Bubba

    Reply
  2. John
    Wednesday, October 22, 2008 at 5:51 am

    @Bubba,

    Google has a lot of nifty “tricks” but doesn’t always publicize them… shame on them!

    Reply
  3. loswhit
    Saturday, May 23, 2009 at 5:05 pm

    oh damn. This is legit

    Reply
  4. Mike
    Saturday, May 23, 2009 at 6:47 pm

    I used Google forms last year to do event registration for a week-long community children's camp. It worked great and was easy to embed in the website using iframes. I shared the google spreadsheet with all the event organizers and they loved it. And the best part – it's FREE

    Reply
  5. Aaron
    Sunday, May 24, 2009 at 1:01 am

    The best part of Google Forms is that it populates a spreadsheet with all the answers. Embedding the forms into a website is another huge plus.

    Reply
    • human3rror
      Sunday, May 24, 2009 at 5:56 am

      Seriously. Best thing ever.

      —Sorry for the brevity and rampant spelling errors… This was obviously \”Sent from my iPhone\”.

      Reply

  1. churchcrunch (churchcrunch)

    New blog post: Google Forms Walkthrough http://tinyurl.com/3ukdwj

  2. human3rror (human3rror)

    RT @churchcrunch: New blog post: Google Forms Walkthrough http://tinyurl.com/3ukdwj i like google.