How to Create and Customize Google Forms?

Last Updated : 02 Jul, 2020

No doubt google forms tend to be one of the most versatile tools when it comes to the collection, analysis, and storing of information. Here is a complete step by step guide to the secret of making customized Google forms. Step 1: Visit forms.google.com. You can open Forms from your Google Drive or Excel sheets too. Step 2: Choose a template The page so opened, offers you the following options. Either you can create your own customized form using the blank template or use any of the already available templates from the encircled Template Gallery. For the sake of this tutorial, we will choose a blank form.

Step 3: Create a customized form Introduction to the provided functionalities:

a) Add a question.

With a click on this icon, you can add a question to the existing form. After writing down the question, usually, the answer type is auto-selected. However, if you want, you can change the answer type by selecting the encircled dropdown menu in the above screenshot. It will present you with a list of possible response types. Then provide for required options or so as need be.
For each question or the options of the MCQs and checkbox questions, you may add an image by clicking the image icon just next to them. The overflow menu (three-dot icon) on the image, offers you the following functionalities:
- Aligning the image to left, right, or center.
- Changing the image.
- Removing the image.
- Adding a caption to it.
You can also double click the image in the question segment to re-size it. However, for the images added corresponding to answers, only an option to remove it is available.
Other options available with regard to the question template include: i) Duplicate the question: The same question template will be created next to the previous one. ii) Delete the question. iii) Mark it as required: It will become compulsory to answer this question. iv) The overflow menu at the bottom right corner offers varying functionalities depending on the answer type of that particular question. Adding a description is a common feature available for all the answer types.

b) Import a Question.

You can import questions from the previously created forms as follows:

Select the form of your choice.
Tick the checkboxes of the questions you want to import.
Click 'import questions'.

c) Add a Title and Description.

d) Add an image segment.

(Hover text is the text that is displaced as the mouse moves over the image.)

align the image,
change the image,
remove the image.

d) Add a video.

Note: Only youtube videos can be added to google forms.

e) Add a separate section to the forms.

Step 4:

add a header image: you can either choose an image from a variety of options that Forms offer or browse files from your own desktop. Images can be selected from the 'Google Photos' app too.
change the theme and the background color.
change the font style from the four options provided.

Tip:

Note: You can re-order the templates by clicking and moving the six-dot icon at the top of each question/description template.

Step 5:

General:

to collect respondent's email addresses: enabling it would set Email as a required field. Then a copy of their responses can also be sent to them.
limit the number of their responses: enabling it limits the response from a particular signed in account to 1. This is a key feature when you set a quiz using google forms.
let them edit the form after submission.
show them the other responses received: this reveals the responses recorded by all the other respondents, it may be shown using some kind infographics or text itself as per the format of the form.

Presentation:

To show the progress bar: i.e how many sections have been answered so far.
To shuffle the order of the questions: especially useful when the form is circulated as a quiz.
Show the link to submit another response
Change the default confirmation message.