Comments on: How to create an online survey for free using Google Docs

By: rattus

rattus — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 19:27:29 +0000

thank you for this informative post, it’s very helpful! I will check out google docs to see if we can use it to make an online survey for our thesis :]

By: Lazar

Lazar — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 04:19:36 +0000

Thanks, and you bring up a good point:The best thing about using Google Docs is that you can create a form easily, email it to anyone with an email address, and they can complete the whole survey without having to sign in! They can even fill out the form directly from their email client, no need to bring up a web page at all!

By: Ioan Nicut

Ioan Nicut — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:20:41 +0000

Thanks for the great information. It is simple indeed and very helpful as it kills the need to add aditional plugins on my wordpress installation.

By: Jean

Jean — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 04:24:32 +0000

Thank you, thank you, thank you!!! I’ve read that google group doesn’t let you make a poll and couldn’t believe google won’t have a way to do it. I am glad I found this information. More reason to love google docs!

By: Sal!

Sal! — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 13:51:58 +0000

Thanks for the tip.I use Google docs regularly,but wasnt aware of this feature.This really helped me make an online survey form in 10 minutes flat..Thanks again!!!

By: Andry

Andry — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:45:48 +0000

Excellent post! Very helpful. I heard about this functionality in Google Docs, but I was looking more info about how it actually work. BTW they now added some themes

Thanks!

By: VitaminSEO

VitaminSEO — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 09:25:47 +0000

There are some useful templates now in Google docs which make setting these up really easy;
http://docs.google.com/templates?q=&category=7&sort=hottest&view=public&type=forms

By: Ilia

Ilia — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 08:42:33 +0000

I was so thrilled to find out I could do an online survey with google docs but I was quite disappointed to find out that after I submitted a response to the survey as a test, I could not longer delete that entry. I managed to delete it from the spreadsheet but not the summary, which meant that it would always be part of the survey results if I decided to go ahead with it. There is no flexibility in google docs on that and I would not recommend it.

By: Jerry Walch

Jerry Walch — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 15:06:43 +0000

With the latest version of Google Docs there is a separate tab for generating a new form. After clicking on “New” you need to click on “Form” and not “Spreadsheet”

By: Dr Ahmed

Dr Ahmed — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 19:33:16 +0000

it’s unfourtunate that you can NOT publish it and invite others ( other than people in your e-mail list) to fill it out! YOU HAVE TO SEND IT BY E-MAIL to get something back!

By: preaned

preaned — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 08:25:18 +0000

didnt know that this way would be so viable.. but for most people they probably be using pollograph.com or something.. google docs is just too much for the nerdy!

By: avinson

avinson — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 09:46:57 +0000

Create great free online survey at surveylover.com

By: alex

alex — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 05:11:36 +0000

… looks like you can only do this with a spreadsheet.

By: alex

alex — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 04:18:42 +0000

I’ve been eying this functionality for a few months. Today, now that I finally want to use it, I can’t find it. It appears that the whole Docs interface has changed in the last few days. There’s a new blue button: Share. When I click on Share -> Share with others, I see the Invite People and then the radio buttons below, but “to fill out a form” is not there. What’s going on?

By: Dr.Narayanan Kannan

Dr.Narayanan Kannan — Thu, 29 May 2008 08:15:10 +0000

Thank you so much for letting me know this information. I wanted to create an Online Evaluation form for a forthcoming workshop. While struggled to find a way to do this, this news came as a boon. Thanks to Google again!