Google Forms
Card's author :
SupAgro Florac
Card's type of licence :
Creative Commons BY-SA
To begin with :
Free Google Document tool that allows creating on-line surveys with results displayed on a chart.
Official website :
http://docs.google.com
Tool's boxes :
Polls
Introduction :
Requirements :
Having a Google account
Some practical uses :
Examples
- Introduction files of the members of a network of the participants in a meeting
- Balance of an operation
- Registrations for a meeting
- Gathering the skills or needs of group members
- Creating a letter using an address list (advanced functions)
Examples
- Form to present the projects at a Sciences Citoyennes meeting (Tela Botanica, October 2009)
- Google questionnaire used by FNAMI LR
- A letter to participants in the action SNA "Network facilitation and collaborative tools " organised by Sup Agro Florac
Using the tools :
Going further :
Advantages :
- Quick and easy to configure
- It allows recovering and centralizing information and notifications from a large number of people easily
- Results can then be exported to a Calc or Excel format to process them in greater detail.
- Forms can easily be integrated into a wiki or a blog
- Google gadgets allow processing the results in a chart or graphs
Drawbacks :
- Data is saved on Google's server (permanence, Google has access to your data)
- Google Document offers limited functions for detailed data processing
Licence :
Proprietary software, Free
Using :
Easy
Setting up :
No setting up
