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The Power of Google Forms to Engage Students - Now With the Form Notification Add-on

Have you explored the Form Notifications Add-on for Google Forms?



I have been a huge fan of formative assessment to engage students in the learning process. I use a variety of tools, but Google Forms is still one of my favorites. I was lucky enough to attend this year’s Google Midwest Summit and I learned about the Form Notifications Add-on while I was there.

There are two great features in this Add-on.
1. You can turn on “Notify on form response” and set how often you receive a notification email when someone submits a response. You no longer need to create a sheet for every form to get notifications when someone submits a form response.



2. I think I am the most excited about the ability to send a customized email using this Add-on. While there are many great tools like Autocrat and Form Mule that allow you to set up email responses when someone submits a form response, none are easier to use than this Add-on.



Here is a sample quiz if you want to see Google Forms with this Add-on in action. This is a copy of a quiz my students in AP Environmental will complete in the locked-quiz mode. It is all about the layers of the atmosphere, but I won’t judge anyone who hasn’t studied these concepts. 



If you want to learn how to quickly set up the Add-on in Google Forms here is a quick step by step tutorial for you.



Additional Google Form Quiz Resources

Self Grading Quizzes
Locked Quizzes on Chromebooks
Branching Forms
Google Classroom Impossible to Fail Quiz

More Formative Assessment Resources

WickedEdTech Formative Assessment Page