This video tutorial is a step by step guide to using Google Forms. If you have a Google account then this is a set of videos, taking you from the basic settings and creating it to create tests and quizzes in language teaching. This video shows you how to set up quizzes, add video, set up feedback, track students and much more. This is actually an advanced feature in Google, introduced a couple of years ago.
This is a great video for anyone wanting to do formative tests or quizzes that are automatically corrected by Google. You can conduct formative assessment or mini tests to track learner progress. You can turn Google Forms into a test by choosing the Quiz button and then making questions where you provide the answers and the feedback. You can use this for ANY subject, although I use this example by using a YouTube video.
If you are teaching online or having to engage with online teaching, then this is very relevant for getting your learners to do tests and then offer them feedback. This simple demonstration shows you how to build up a quiz in order to test your learners, if they are not in the actual classroom, but a virtual one.
Google Forms can be compared in two ways. A questionnaire can be generated. You can create a questionnaire and send it to students. The data comes back to the person who sets the questionnaire. For example, you could find out what technologies teachers already know. The relatively new way is to create a test. In this example you will see Russell create a test – or a series of questions – based on a YouTube video. You can get scores from those taking the ‘test’ and offer some feedback. This is the difference between data gathering exercise or survey and a quiz making one where you can get feedback. This tutorial shows you how to do the latter version.
Making a quiz, the teacher can be notified when the responder has done the quiz. If you are teaching online, then this is an asynchronous way of delivering a short test or quiz. This could also, in theory, be done in real-time or synchronously, during the class. However, with lower order thinking skills, you might want to get the learners to watch the video in their own time, away from the virtual classroom. Then feedback can be given during an online class, where other feedback can be given, or questions and answers can also be raised. This tutorial shows you some simple tricks for delivering this.
Watch the tutorial on using Google Forms, as Russell demonstrates how to build a quiz or test and share this with his learners. Like any quiz which requires feedback, you would need to add in whether an answer is right or wrong. Good ‘wrong’ answers are useful, such as when working in a tool like Kahoot! Don’t make obviously wrong answers, although in this example, clearly incorrect options are shown, to make the point of which are clearly the wrong answers. Add points to each question, depending on difficulty. You can build up a quiz with an increasing level of difficulty, but this would up to the creator of the Google Form.
Towards the end of this teacher training video on using Google Forms, you can see how this quiz would look from the student or quiztaker point of view. Instead of just using a YouTube video, you could also upload one of your own videos. This would take Google Forms up a level. Without the webcam, Russell shows you how to turn a map into a learning activity. This is an activity done using screen capture technology. Using SnagIT, which Russell has lots of training videos on as well, you can watch as he builds up a quiz using Google Forms but a video that he has created himself. In this example, he looks at some maps of European countries. This video is available immediately and is later uploaded to his YouTube channel and, also, into the quiz.
Russell Stannard runs the educational technology website – Teacher Training Videos. This is one of hundreds of free teacher training videos, many of which apply to non teachers as much as teachers. He offers these videos for free via this YouTube channel and his website – teachertrainingvideos.com. This tutorial lasts 16 minutes but within that time, Russell, shows you clearly how to work with Google Forms. Search for more teacher training videos at the top of the page by using the search tool.
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