Creating a new Google Form¶

Navigate to Google Forms and click on “Blank”:

Give a title to your Google Form by clicking on “Untitled Form”:

Add a little description about the survey form here. For our example we will be collecting stories about vaccinations during COVID-19.

Adding a Google Form Question¶

Click on the “Add Question” button to add a question:

Start typing “Location” and Google will automatically guess the question type for you.

You can fill in descriptions below the question to help with answering by clicking on the “more” triple dots:

Then going to description:

And typing out a help description:

You can check the “required” mark to make this question necessary to move on.

Conditional Questions¶

Add a relevant question to help guide the user about the survey, Do you speak English fluently?

Click on the triple dots ...:

Select Go to section based on answer:

Adding new sections¶

Add a new section:

Title it Language Details

Add one question on What language do you primary speak at home?

And another on What is your age?

Go back to the question Do you speak English fluently? and for No:

Choose Go to Section 2.

Scroll to the bottom and add a new section:

Call it Vaccination Story and add a new question:

Add the question:

Would you be comfortable with sharing your story?

Yes

No

Make it a required question.

⚽In-class Exercise #1 - Open Ended Questions¶

Task

Add two open-ended questions to your form

Bonus

Feel free to make a branching question to the open-ended questions, so if some one chooses “No” they submit the form and finish.

Answer

Some open-ended questions can be the following:

How did you make the appointment?

How did you get to the location?

Make sure they are both Paragraph answer types:

Wrapping the form up¶

Go back to Do you speak English fluently and make Yes go to Section 3:

Your final form should look something like this:

https://forms.gle/E8xBqKLJNJyvxGcK8

Click the Send button to share your form

Embeding your form¶

Under the Send button menu, click on the Embed tab

Copy the Embeded HTML by clicking the Copy button:

Go back to index.html and paste the embedded HTML into the contents div:

index.html

<div id="contents">
    <!-- page contents can go here -->
    <iframe src="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfcElv5dlXInR7XHQz27_OcYJlWcIUr-GBbc-ocefWlGd1uXg/viewform?embedded=true" width="640" height="654" frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0">Loading…</iframe>
</div>

Accessing the Responses¶

Click on Responses:

Click on the Google Spreadsheet button:

Change the title and click on Create button:

Open the response Google Sheet by clicking open or the Google Sheets icon: