Create Quizzes in Google Forms: Extensions

In the main lesson, you created a quiz to test your knowledge of a topic.

In this extension, you will change the settings in your quiz to customize it.

This will allow you and your quiz takers to see different types of information.

This helps people learn about the topic and understand their quiz score.

It can also help teachers measure class or individual student progress.

You will: decide whether to collect email addresses or keep them anonymous, provide response receipts, give quiz takers editing ability, allow quiz takers to access quiz data and scores, and include a progress bar and confirmation message.

To start, find your quiz in Google Drive.

Then, open the settings menu.

Within General settings, you have the ability to collect data on your quiz takers, so you can see who has taken the quiz and their score.

Collect email addresses from the quiz takers to match the person with their score.

Response receipts allow you to receive copies of the completed quiz in your email.

If you want to limit your quiz takers to one attempt at the quiz, they must sign in to their Google accounts before taking it.

Or, give the respondents the ability to edit their quiz after they submit it.

This means they can change their answers.

You can also give them the ability to see others' answers and quiz scores.

Usually, these settings are used for other types of forms, like opinion polls.

Quiz takers might want their scores kept private.

Next, add a progress bar to show quiz takers how many more questions they must answer.

This is useful for a long test or form.

Shuffle the question order to keep quiz takers from memorizing the order of your quiz.

And send your quiz taker a short note after they submit the quiz.

Finally, adjust the quiz-specific settings.

Choose when to release the quiz grade.

To review the completed quizzes before you tell people their grades, select that option.

This is a good idea if your quiz includes paragraph questions that must be manually graded, or when you want everyone to finish taking the quiz before you reveal the scores.

Otherwise, release the scores as each quiz is completed.

Choose how much information quiz takers receive after they take your quiz, including whether they see the questions they got wrong.

The correct answers for missed questions.

And the point value for each question and the quiz as a whole.

Adjust the settings on your quiz anytime to make it suit different purposes and learning objectives.

Now, it's your turn: open the settings menu, adjust the general settings, form presentation settings, and quiz settings, and save your changes.

In the main lesson, you created a quiz using multiple choice and true-false questions.

In this extension, you will add short answer and paragraph questions to your quiz.

Short answer and paragraph questions allow quiz takers to type in their own responses to questions, so they demonstrate their understanding of a topic in their own words.

"Short answer questions" require one-or two-word answers.

"Paragraph questions" require longer responses, often several sentences.

To start, open your quiz to add more questions.

Or, start a new quiz.

To ask the quiz taker to type in a specific answer, such as a name, plot point, or idea, add a short answer question.

The multiple choice questions you added in the main lesson test how well someone recognizes a term or information.

A short answer question asks them to recall information from memory, rather than choosing it from a list.

For each short answer question you include add an answer key.

If your short answer question has one or more possible responses, provide those in the answer key.

The answer key tells the computer or the quiz grader the correct answer to the question.

The question can be automatically graded by the computer to mark other answers as wrong.

Add more possible answers with similar spellings, if you'd like.

This keeps the computer from marking an answer as incorrect because it was not capitalized correctly or was slightly misspelled.

Review answers by hand later, to make sure the grading is accurate.

If a quiz taker spells a word incorrectly, their answer may be marked incorrect by the computer.

Then, add a point value for your question.

If your quiz has a mix of multiple choice and short answer questions, typically the short answer or paragraph questions have a higher value, but you can choose any grading scale you'd like.

Next, add a paragraph question.

Paragraph questions ask quiz takers to answer a question using several sentences that they write in their own words.

Paragraph questions are an effective way to ask a quiz taker to show their understanding of a topic.

You might ask them to summarize a plot point, reflect on the significance of an event, or explain a topic to show how well they understand it.

The computer can't automatically grade paragraph questions, so you won't include a correct answer in the answer key.

You can change the settings so the quiz-taker must provide an answer with a minimum length.

Set a specific character count.

This helps ensure that the quiz takers explain their answers fully.

A minimum character count encourages the quiz taker to give a more thorough answer.

A maximum length limits responses for a more precise answer.

Set the point value to zero.

When you're grading the quiz, you can add the additional value for paragraph answers to the total.

Then, preview your quiz.

Make any changes, if necessary.

Finally, share your quiz with your teacher or classmates.

Nice work! Now, it's your turn: open your existing quiz, or start a new quiz, add a short answer question to your quiz, update the answer key and assign a point value, add a paragraph question to your quiz, and set the point value to zero.

In the main lesson, you created a quiz to test yourself or your classmate's knowledge of a topic.

In this extension, you will customize your quiz with a theme.

A theme changes the look of your quiz, so it matches the subject matter or makes your quiz look more appealing.

The theme can reflect the content of the quiz or add visual interest to the quiz form.

To start, open your quiz.

Then, customize the theme.

Choose a theme color that reflects the subject of your quiz, or just something that you like.

You might choose soothing colors to relax the quiz taker.

Or, you might choose your favorite colors or your school colors.

Select a background color that complements the theme color.

Update the font, if you'd like.

Keep your theme simple, or choose to add a header image.

Browse the images included in the Google Forms app by finding the category that suits your subject.

And select your favorite image.

Or, if you have an image in your Drive that you'd like to use for your header image, you can upload it.

Preview your quiz to make sure you like your new theme.

Finally, share your quiz.

Now, it's your turn: customize your theme color and background color, if you'd like, add a header image from the Forms library, or upload an image from Drive, and preview and share your quiz.

After your classmates take your quiz, their responses are recorded so you can review them later.

In this extension, you will analyze the quiz data using the charts in the "Responses" section of the quiz.

It's useful to view the results of your classmates' quizzes so you know: their individual scores, the average quiz score, which questions they answered correctly, and which questions they answered incorrectly.

To start, open your quiz.

If you haven't shared your quiz yet, that's okay.

You can take your own quiz and analyze your own responses.

Take the quiz multiple times to populate your data.

In the quiz edit mode, view the "Responses" tab.

Review the insights for your quiz data.

Filter by the summary of all data.

You can see the average, median, and range of your respondents' scores.

The "Average" is the typical score that quiz takers got on your quiz.

The "Range" is the difference between the highest and the lowest scores.

And the "Median" is the midpoint in the range of test scores.

Teachers often like to know the average, median, and range of test scores so they can define a "good" or a "bad" score on a quiz.

If all students scored poorly, for example, the teacher might decide to retest students or change how they grade the quiz based on this data.

The first chart, a bar graph, shows the distribution of scores.

This illustrates how many quiz takers achieved a particular score along the range of scores.

It also helps you see which scores were most and least common among all quiz takers.

If lots of quiz takers got low scores, for example, it might suggest that your quiz is too hard or confusing.

The frequently missed questions chart shows which questions quiz takers commonly got wrong.

This can help highlight subject areas that need more practice, or it might identify a question that is confusing.

Review the data for each specific question.

Knowing which questions quiz takers got right and wrong can help you identify which subject areas need more practice or more testing.

This information is shown in bar graphs.

And in list form.

Finally, view each quiz taker's response individually.

This is useful if you're giving the quiz taker a grade.

You can view the quiz taker's total score, submission date and time, and their email address, if you're collecting that data.

This is useful if quiz takers are taking a quiz in different locations, and you need to know when they completed it.

Accessing and analyzing response data can help you measure your quiz takers' knowledge and understanding of the topic, both as a group and individually.

It can also help you as the quiz creator understand which questions are most and least effective, so you can grade students fairly and also build more effective quizzes in the future.

Now, it's your turn: open the responses tab in your quiz, and review the quiz averages, score distribution, frequently missed questions, and individual performance.

After your classmates take your quiz, their responses are recorded so you can review them later.

In this extension, you will get email notifications for quiz responses and analyze the quiz data using a spreadsheet created with your quiz results.

It's useful to view the results of your classmates' quizzes so you know: when quizzes were submitted, their individual scores, and which responses were given for each question.

To start, open your quiz.

If you haven't shared your quiz yet, that's okay.

You can take your own quiz and analyze your own responses.

Or, take the quiz multiple times to populate your data.

In the quiz edit mode, view the "Responses" tab.

Update the settings so that you are emailed each time a response is submitted.

You will receive an email in your inbox each time someone completes the quiz.

A link will be included for you to view the response directly.

This allows you to review each quiz score as it is submitted.

Then, download the responses into a spreadsheet.

A spreadsheet gives you a more detailed view of the quiz responses, which you can then filter, adjust, and view in different ways to get a clear picture of your quiz taker's responses in a single location.

A spreadsheet is especially useful if you have a large number of quiz takers-- like your entire school.

It allows you to view all the responses and find the information you need more easily.

The sheet is divided into columns with headings, including: the "Timestamp," or the time at which the quiz was submitted for each person, the "Score" and each individual question.

Each row is populated by the responses given.

Sort the spreadsheet to show the scores from highest to lowest.

Or sort by another column to see how many people gave the same answer to a question.

If you delete the data from the spreadsheet, you will need to create a new spreadsheet for your quiz to see that data in place again.

It will remain missing from the spreadsheet, even as it updates.

Finally, if you would like a hard copy of your quiz responses, you can print a copy.

Or, save the responses as a PDF.

Viewing quiz data in a spreadsheet, especially if you have a large number of quiz takers, allows you to view their responses in detail and filter them in different ways, so you can understand how your quiz takers understand a topic.

Now, it's your turn: update email notifications, download quiz responses as a spreadsheet, sort the sheet by score or another column, and print the responses or save as a PDF.