Online Form Review: Google Form

Published on June 7, 2017.

Today we are going to review Google Forms. To use it you need a Google account which you already have if you already signed to any other of Google’s product.

Possibility to download the answers

You can download the responses as a .csv or create a Google Spreadsheet with the responses that you can download later in many formats.

Email notification

You can receive email after people complete the form. If you want to email responders you need to use Google Script or a third-party app.

Answer type

• short text

  

  Extra feature is “Response Validation”.

• paragraph

  

  Extra feature is “Response Validation”.

• multiple choice

  

  You can include “Other” as one choice

  

  Extra features are: “Go to section based on answer” and “Shuffle option order”.

• checkboxes

  

  You can include “Other” as one choice

  

  Extra features are: “Response Validation” and “Shuffle option order”.

• dropdown

  

  Extra features are: “Go to section based on answer” and “Shuffle option order”.

• linear scale

  

• date

  

  Extra features are: “Include time” and “Include year”.

• time

  

• multiple choice grid

  

  Extra features are: “Limit to one response per column” and “Shuffle row order”.

• file upload

  You can’t upload files.

Mark question as required

Possible.

Split the form into sections

Possible.

Customisation on the fly

Possible for some question types.

Response validation

Possible for some question types.

Word Completion

Not possible.

Evaluation table

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