Tuesday Tech – How can Teachers can use Google Forms

Keeping records is an integral part of being a teacher. I’m often asked “Did Janine come for extra help?” or “What contact have you had with Joe’s parents?” In the olden days, I kept notebooks and binders with long records of emails, phone calls, conferences, and so on with every parent. Students who came for extra help had to sign in to a binder with the date and content they wanted to review. This served as my resource to sift through whenever I was asked to confirm extra help or parent contact. Google forms is a simple, flexible, and readily available tool for teachers to keep track of all sorts of stuff. Now I use Google Forms to keep track of these things. Here’s how:

1. Create a Google Form that includes options you want to record. For example, on the form I use for extra help, I include date, time, and content reviewed. On the form for parent contact, I include type of contact and what we discussed.
2. Bookmark the Google forms so you can access them whenever needed.
3. Click on the bookmark and enter the info whenever you have extra help or parent contact.
4. When you’re asked to document your contact, use the built in Google Sheet to search for the relevant student and recall all of your information.

Easy peasy lemon squeezy.

Click these images for your own Google Forms for teachers – make a copy and add/delete anything you want!