Google Forms can simplify many tasks that teachers and other educators do on a regular basis. Below is a variety of forms that can make your life easier, including everything from quizzes and URL project submissions to tutoring sign up and tracking textbooks.
Quiz
Use Google Forms to create and administer online quizzes. You'll get student responses on a manageable spreadsheet, and you can even grade them instantly using the Spreadsheet Add-on Flubaroo!
Submitting Student Work
Web 2.0 tools have created countless possibilities for dynamic, content-rich projects that utilize the highest levels of learning, but grading them can get a little messy. Student work is often only accessible through a long url or an email that usually gets sent to spam. Instead of searching through junk folders for links or trying to decipher 50 characters scribbled on a scrap of paper, why not have your students submit their links through a Google Form? Then you can easily sort your information by student name or class period, and click directly on the link to view their work!
Assigning Textbooks
If you assign textbooks, whether they stay in the classroom or go home with the student, then you have to keep up with those assignments. Papers get misplaced over the course of a semester or year, but a Google Form would be easy to access any time you needed to reference it.
Tutoring Requests
Instead of having students just drop by for after school tutoring only to find you're off coaching softball practice, you can use a Google Form for students (or parents!) to sign up for tutoring slots. If you split tutoring days with other teachers in your department, signing up will also let the students know where to go, and help you prepare to help with another teacher's assignments.
Parent Contact and Syllabus
At the start of every year (or semester), most teachers spend a significant amount of time collecting and organizing parent contact information, as well as sharing information about their classes. With a Google Form, you could eliminate all of that excess paperwork, not to mention the time spent entering in all of those emails, phone numbers, etc. so you can keep up with parents.