Google forms are easy to use and allow you to create a form that can be emailed, or placed on a web site that allows you to collect data and have it placed right into a Google Spreadsheet.

Here are a few nice YouTube videos about forms:

Creating an online quiz: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xC1L0wpmqlY 

 

Create a self grading quiz: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFl3iw6Bp3g&feature=related  (Pretty cool way to create a self grading quiz and some nice tips in the video.)  (Longer video- about 10 min.)

Bring up your grading Rubric as a form, right next to the students essay. This nice idea can be found here.

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Self Grading quizzes and advanced form tips:

Take a look at Flubaroo http://www.flubaroo.com/.  Watch the 3 minute video, and see how this free add-in script will turn your Google Form into a self-grading quiz that will even email students the results as well as breakdown class results and question scores for the teacher.

This is a great script that will be handy for teachers, as well as a good demo of the possibilities and power in Google Doc scripts.

Take a look at this tutorial using Google Apps Script. It will amaze you at what can be done: http://code.google.com/googleapps/appsscript/articles/sites_tutorial.html

This is the home page of Google Apps Scripting.

While attending the NETA 2011 conference a couple weeks ago, I attended a session that was put on by an administrator in a school here in Nebraska that highlighted several ways he used Google Forms and the power of scripts for many day-to-day activities including quick walk through evaluations. Many of his forms can be found here. 

Very few of us want to be "Coders", but learning a few basics will unleash a lot of power at our fingertips with Google Apps Script.

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