Google+Apps+in+the+Classroom+Day+4

=Using Google Forms in your Classroom=
 * Google Forms** offers the ability to create and share an entry form with others for collecting information (versus giving them full access to the spreadsheet itself). It is useful for surveys or any kind of easy information collection for a large number of people.

Let's take a sample test.
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Sample Survey for Google Class
 * Creating Forms
 * Introduction to Google Forms
 * 10 Google Forms for the Classroom

Create, send, share, and edit a form
Google forms are a useful tool to help you plan events, send a survey, give students a quiz, or collect other information in an easy, streamlined way. A Google form is automatically connected to a spreadsheet with the same title. When you send or share a form, recipients’ responses will automatically be collected in that spreadsheet.

Create and send a Google form
You can create and share a form from your Documents List or from any existing spreadsheet.

Create a form from your Documents List:

 * 1) Click **Create new** > **Form**. The form you create will be connected to a spreadsheet of the same title that collects all of the responses. Responses will be collected in the first tab of this spreadsheet.
 * 2) In the form template that opens, you can add any questions and options you'd like.

Create a form from a Google spreadsheet:
If you’re creating a form from a spreadsheet, the next time you open the spreadsheet, a Form menu will appear in the menu bar.
 * 1) Click the **Tools** drop-down menu, scroll to **Form**, and select **Create a form**. The form responses will be collected in the tab from which you create the form.
 * 2) In the form template that opens, you can add any questions and options you'd like.

Add items and questions to a form
You can add different types of questions to your forms by clicking **Form** in your spreadsheet and **Add item** at the top of the editing page. Here are some of the question types you can choose: checkboxes, grid, drop-down lists with options, multiple choice, paragraph text, which allow for long answers, and scale, to ask your invitees to grade something in a scale from 1-5, for instance. Add section headers if you'd like to divide your form in sections to make it easier to read and complete. Simply select **Section header** from the **Add item** drop-down menu. Each section header can have a title, which appears in a larger font, and a section description.

Split questions into multiple pages
If you've created a long form, for example, and would like to make it easier for your respondents to fill it out, you can add page breaks. From the **Add item** drop-down menu, select **Page break**.

Helpful tips

 * You can edit the confirmation message that people filling out your form see after submitting their responses. Click the **More actions** drop-down menu at the top-right of the form, and select **Edit confirmation**.
 * If you've edited a form and need to send it again, click the **Edit and resend** button in the lower-left corner of the **Share** tab.

Send or share your Google form
When you've completed your form, you can send it to form respondents via email or by sharing the form on Google+.

Send a form via email

 * Open your form from your Documents List or from the form's associated spreadsheet.
 * Click **Email this form** once you've finished adding your questions.
 * Add the email addresses of the people to whom you want to send this form.
 * Click **Send**.

Share a form on Google+

 * 1) Open your form from your Documents List or from the form's associated spreadsheet.
 * 2) Click **Share** once you’ve finished adding your questions.
 * 3) Add contacts from your [|circles] with whom you’d like to share your form, and add a comment (optional).
 * 4) Click **Share**.
 * 5) People with whom you've shared the form will see it in their [|Google+ stream].

Edit a form question
Here are some of the things you can do with your questions:
 * **Edit**: To edit an existing question, just click the **Edit**button to the right of the question you want to edit.[[image:http://www.google.com/help/hc/images/docs_87809k_en.gif caption="Editing question"]]
 * **Delete**: To delete a question, click the **Delete**button to the right of the question you want to delete.[[image:http://www.google.com/help/hc/images/docs_87809l_en.gif caption="Deleting question"]]
 * **Duplicate**: To duplicate a question, click the **Duplicate**button to the right of the question you want to duplicate.

=Using Flubaroo to Grade Your Google Quiz=

Flubaroo Overview

 * || [[image:http://flubaroo.appspot.com/welcome_to_flubaroo_sm.png width="200" height="171" link="http://www.flubaroo.com/"]]

Flubaroo is a free tool that helps you quickly grade multiple-choice or fill-in-blank assignments. **I designed it for my own classroom, and want to share it with other teachers... //for free//!**

// * Flubaroo works with Google docs. Click if you need an introduction to Google docs. // ||
 * || More than just a grading tool, Flubaroo also:

Read the overview below, or[| **jump straight to Step 5**] to see what Flubaroo creates. You can also start by [|reading] what other teachers are saying about Flubaroo! || The instructions below walk you through creating an assignment, and grading it with Flubaroo:
 * Computes average assignment score.
 * Computes average score per question, and flags low-scoring questions.
 * Shows you a grade distribution graph.
 * Gives you the option to email each student their grade, and an answer key.
 * || [|Step 1: Create an Assignment][|Step 2: Create an Answer Key][|Step 3: Assign It!][|Step 4: Grade It!][|Step 5: Review the Grades]

Also checkout: [|Tips on Using Forms] || **Flubaroo is free to use!** ||  || ** Watch a 3 minute demo. ** || Step 1: Create an Assignment


 * || Sign into your Google docs account, and create a new "Form". Forms are multiple-choice style surveys that you can share with anyone (e.g. via email). Every time someone fills out the form, their responses are placed as a new row in an accompanying spreadsheet.

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Once done entering questions, save and close the form.
 * || Once you've created a new form, just add in the questions for your assignment. It will look like the photo below. Be sure to include a couple questions that will allow you to identify the student (such as first name, last name, and student id). If you want to email each student their grade, be sure to also include a field for their email address.

Once saved, your form will have a new, empty spreadsheet associated with it. For more on using forms, read Tips on Using Forms. ||

Step 2: Create an Answer Key
 * || Open up the form, fill it out with the correct answers and submit it. Be sure to enter your name too, so you can identify this entry later on as the answer key. Not sure how to find or open the form you just created? Click here for help. ||

Step 3: Assign It! 
 * || Email the form to your class using the "Email this form" button at the top. Alternately, just email out a link to the form, or put the link on your class website. Click here for instructions on how to get a link to the form.

All student submissions will automatically be entered into a spreadsheet, which will look something like this:

|| Step 4: Grade It!


 * < Open the spreadsheet associated with the form.

From the "Insert" menu, click "Script" (see photo below, on left). You'll be presented with a "Script Gallery" (see photo below, on right), from which you can install a multitude of useful "scripts".

To install Flubaroo, type "Flubaroo" in the box at the top, and click the Search button. Alternately, you can click on "Education" in the left pane, and then scroll down to find "Flubaroo". Once you've found it, click the "Install" button. ||
 * [[image:http://www.flubaroo.com/_/rsrc/1299543577897/flubaroo-user-guide/Picture%201.png?height=320&width=281 width="281" height="320"]] ||  ||= [[image:http://www.flubaroo.com/_/rsrc/1299889809791/flubaroo-user-guide/Picture%2012.png]] ||

After installation, you'll see a new menu in the spreadsheet called "Flubaroo" (it may take a few seconds to appear). Once you're ready to grade, just select "Grade Assignment" in this menu.



Flubaroo will ask you a few questions, such as: Once answered, Flubaroo will grade your assignment. This process should take less than a minute.
 * If any questions should not be graded.
 * Which questions are for the purpose of student identification (e.g. name, student id, email).
 * Which submission should be used as the answer key.


 * Note**: While Flubaroo will work in any web browser, it doesn't look too nice in Firefox. This is a known issue, being worked on.



Step 5: Review the Grades


 * || The grades created by Flubaroo will be located in an adjacent worksheet called "Grades", as shown:

For each submission, Flubaroo will show which questions were answered correctly ("1" point"), which incorrectly ("0" points), and which were not graded. If less than 60% of students got a question correct, the question will be highlighted in **orange** to alert you: The Flubaroo menu will now offer you the ability to email each student their grades, view a summary report, or regrade the assignment. You might want to regrade the assignment if more students submitted answers, or if you want to throw out a question that most students got wrong.  If you choose to email each student their grade, you'll be given the option to include an answer key in the email. You can also include a short message to your students. The email sent to each student will include their total score, and their score for each question (with incorrect answers highlighted in red). __Note: You will only be able to email students their grades if the original assignment had a question asking them for their email address__. Choosing "View Report" shows you a summary report of the grading. The report includes the distribution of grades (a histogram), and a button to email yourself a copy of the report.

**Want to try it out? Click the button below to try it on a sample assignment. Remember, Flubaroo is __free__ to use!**



**Like Flubaroo, or have some ideas or comments? Let me know: flubaroo@edcode.org** || **Important Disclaimer:** Flubaroo is a tool offered for use in conjunction with Google Docs, but is not itself a Google product or service. || =Resources.=