How To: Create A Google Survey

Hi friends!
A quick and easy tutorial for you this morning. I've had some bloggers asking on how to create those forms they receive in emails that collect information. You usually get them when trying to sign up to participate in a giveaway or I even have one when you click to sign up for Cara Box.
These forms are so much better than emailing out a bunch of questions to a list of bloggers and manually recording their answers. When you use a form, it collects all the answers for you and places them in an Excel sheet.
So here we go!




1// Go to your Google account. If you have Gmail, you are already signed in to your Google account.
2// At the top, click on "Drive". On the left hand side, click on "Create" and then "Form".
3// Name your form whatever you would like and then pick a theme or design. You can always leave it plain white, but Google now offers pretty backgrounds and colors too.
4// In "Form Description" write a note to the people you are collecting info from. (ex, Please be sure to fill out all information below to participate in the mug swap!)
5// Then you will see a question box. You can fill out the title of the question, help text and then choose the type of question you want. If you choose multiple choice or checkbox, you can fill out answer options. You can also mark if the question is required.
6// Continue adding questions until you are finished creating your survey.
7// Choose the confirmation message that participants will see when they finish the questions. Then click "Send Form".
8// A pop up will show that says "Link to share". That is the link you will use to send the form in emails or to put in a blog post!
9// Last step! Go back to "Drive" and locate your survey. Check the box to the left of it. At the top, click on the person with the plus sign (Share). A pop up will show. You need to change under "Who has access" where it says "Private" - change to "Anyone who has the link". Click Done.
If you do not do that last step, people will get an error or won't be able to send you info! When you go back into Drive, an Excel sheet will be created where you can view the answers you have received.
I hope this was helpful to you and now you can save so much time by using Google Surveys and Forms in the future!


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