Before joining NVUSD this past year I was not a Google suite user. As I’ve progressed through the year, I’ve become familiar with the suite, but by far do not consider myself a fluent user. Surprisingly, I had only been asked to fill out about a dozen forms surveys over the course of this last school year. This was my first attempt at creating my own Google Forms and I am excited to see where the adventure leads. Since my students work predominantly from home, I wanted to create a survey meant to discover what their home access is to the internet and to what kind of devices they have access. My first question was a yes/no answer. Depending on the answer, the student would or would not have to answer a few more questions. I recalled my frustration in taking a couple surveys when my answer should have eliminated the next questions but didn’t. I did a little searching around, and to my delight, found that Forms has a function to create sections and to jump to a new section depending on the first answer. So, for example, when a student responded NO, she did not have a cell phone, she was not required to answer questions about the functionality of that nonexistent phone, but skipped to the next section on home access to internet/devices. My students come to school once or twice a week. If they are absent, they still have to turn in work in order to get their attendance credits. If a student is unable to get a ride to school, this presents a problem. I made a form that enables students to submit work from home. The next step is for the student to schedule what is called an “intervention” meeting. The students find a list of available times to schedule. The add-on Choice Eliminator will take a time off the list when a student chooses it. Choice Eliminator can be used for scheduling, sign ups for parents, students choosing topics for projects when you don’t want more than one group/student doing the same topic. The next form I created was done mostly to track when students check out and check in books from the class library. Mosty I did this one because I wanted to play around with Autocrat, which is a mail merge add-on. When students check out a book, a spreadsheet is formed and a letter is emailed to the student with a confirmation and a due date. You create a folder in your drive to collect the individual letters, so they can be emailed again or emailed to the parent if the book does not come back. I kept it simple for my first run, but I can see how an email could also be sent when the book is checked in. I would like to use forms and the autocrat add-on to have parents check in on orientation day, when they give us basic necessary information. I’d like to find out their preferred method of contact and to send a welcome letter to them from that information gathering.
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