You will learn how to work with Google Forms. Google Forms allow you to solicit information from an audience online. There are two ways to create Google Forms: you can log into Chrome and open your Google Drive apps from the waffle. From here, you can select Forms and begin creating questions, or you can open your Drive from the waffle, select New, and choose the Forms file type to begin working. No matter which method you choose, your work will be saved in your Google Drive.

After creating your form, you will want to name it something easy to recognize so that you can retrieve the form from your docs later. The form will save automatically and continuously as you work on it. You can then organize it by filing it using the file folder icon at the top of the document. You can select a precise location where you'd like to store your form.

Forms contain questions and other prompts for users to provide information. These can range from fill-in-the-blanks and selecting from multiple choices to uploading files to show participants' work or responses. When building a form, select the type of question you would like to have, then author the question along with any instructions for the question, and then present the choices for your participants.

Let's see how some other questions are built. I can decide whether or not the question is required, meaning participants cannot move on without providing a response. I can also add images to my questions to prompt people to think about something specific. Here, we add some context in the question for this image. We designate that respondents will have to type in their answers, and now our question is complete.

Forms are easily distributed to others by emailing the form to recipients, capturing a link to the form that can be posted or emailed, and through embed code. Embed code can allow the author to embed the form into a web environment like Canvas, where recipients can engage with the form directly within their digital location.

Before distributing the form, the author can determine whether or not an email address needs to be collected. In other words, can this form be entirely anonymous, or would you like to collect any identifying information? Once respondents have completed the form, data becomes available. I'm going to complete this form so we can see the data collection process. Once the form is submitted, the data is very quickly posted. I go back to my form authoring screen, and now I have a Responses tab.

Responses are shown in some simple summaries for each question. Some summaries are rendered as pie charts, some as line graphs, and some are short answers. It just depends on the type of question that was built. I can also view my responses in a Google Sheet. I can click the Sheets icon just beneath the responses and have a Google Sheet linked to my data. Linking a sheet to your form allows your data to be sorted and analyzed, and allows those responses to be shared with others.

Let's see the creation of a sheet; it's as simple as that. Multiple forms can simplify data collection and reporting, simplify your workflow, and increase productivity with Google Forms.