Google Forms: Responses

Objectives and Overview

This lesson takes a look at what happens after people take your survey.

Lesson Objectives

  • Identify how to access form data
  • Be able to export data to Sheets
  • Share surveys

Survey Responses

Let’s take a survey and check out how we can examine data points.

Go to : https://forms.gle/RGkeDCMBgQp39CTK7 and play!

We’ve looked at how to create questions, what happens once we have some data points?

You can see responses to your Forms right inside the program. Click the “Responses” tab:

Google Forms "Responses" tab clicked and active.

Check out this GIF for a step-by-step breakdown of opening up the responses:

GIF showing the steps to view the responses to a Google Form.

You can take your data analysis further by clicking on the Sheets button. This will populate a live Sheet spreadsheet containing all your questions and responses. Across the top columns, you’ll see your questions. Each row represents an individuals’ responses to the survey. 

Closeup of the Google Sheets button.

Check out this GIF to see the steps for opening up the connected Google Sheet:

GIF showing how to open up the corresponding Google Sheets to view responses.

Sharing Surveys

If you want to add collaborators to your survey so they can make edits and view responses, go to Share> Add collaborators > and then type in their email address. This GIF shows the steps for doing this:

GIF showing the steps for adding collaborators to a Google Form.

We can email our survey to folks, copy and share a link, or embed the survey into a website with HTML (we’re not doing HTML at this time):

GIF showing the steps for sharing a Google Form.

Often, the link will be your easiest option. Folks do not need a Google account to respond to the survey.