New Features in Google Forms

LBCC is getting some great mileage from Google Forms, and has been for over four years now. If you have never explored Google Forms, you really should take a glance, as I bet you will find a few good ways to save time, effort, and/or paper!

If you have been using Google Forms for a while, be ready for a few tweaks in the interface, the biggest one being clicking into a form from your Drive interface. That now takes you directly to the form, not the spreadsheet. It took me a little while to figure out how to get to the spreadsheet (the real power behind Google Forms), and I thought I should share here how to do that.

Now when you create a new form:

You will now see this:

You can entitle your form and choose a theme right from the get-go. At that point, you can (and probably should, so you don't forget later) click the "Choose response destination" button:

You will see this dialog:

If you simply want your data to flow into a spreadsheet, more-or-less like it used to, go ahead and keep the "New spreadsheet" radio button selected, and click "Create." You will now have a link to the form, and one to the (Responses) - the spreadsheet in your Google Drive:

You will probably want to explore the new options in the "Choose response destination" dialog box, so please do that, and share your findings and impressions in the comments section of this blog entry.

Want more info? Here is Google's info page on Google Forms.