How to Create and Analyze Surveys Using Google Forms

You can integrate a Google Form survey directly into your course, allowing users to conveniently provide feedback without leaving the course player.

You can also create a Form with a wide variety of question types to receive feedback from your users using our robust built-in Form builder. Check the detailed steps in this article.

In this article, we will learn how to embed Google Forms in your courses using an external link learning activity. 

1. Create your Google form.

2. Click Send on the top right of your Google Form.

3. Select the second option (Link) and copy the URL. 

4. In your LearnWorlds school, navigate to the course you wish to add your form and add an External learning activity.

Note: You can also copy the Embed HTML link of the Google Form and create an embed learning activity. The main difference is that the Theme template of the Google Form (e.g. Header Image and colors) will not be visible in the course player. 

Automatically Populate the Users' Information to the Google Form

You can automatically populate the Google Form with user information, such as their email address, username, or the course on which they are filling out the Form. This is useful if you want to ask your users for their feedback.

1. Select the three dots on the top right and then Get the pre-filled link: 

2. In the new tab that opens, your form can be filled in. You can add variables that will populate the user's information from the LearnWorlds platform to the Google Form. The available variables are: 

{{USER_ID}}

{{USER_NAME}}

{{USER_EMAIL}}

{{COURSE_ID}}

{{UNIT_ID}}

For instance:

Scroll down and click on the Get link option and then Copy Code. The link will look something like this: 

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf9idX8JVO-adw4B4pttaslhb_4Wrs3qzJ3Ldim7CHfh6qFmA/viewform?usp=pp_url&entry.1592128447=%7B%7BUSER_EMAIL%7D%7D,+%7B%7BCOURSE_ID%7D%7D

3. You will then need to replace every %7B occurrence with a curly bracket { and every %7D occurrence with a } bracket. The link will now look like this: 

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf9idX8JVO-adw4B4pttaslhb_4Wrs3qzJ3Ldim7CHfh6qFmA/viewform?usp=pp_url&entry.1592128447={{USER_EMAIL}},+{{COURSE_ID}}

4. Paste this link into an external link learning activity.

The user's information (in this case, the email and the course ID) is automatically populated in the Google Form and will be included in the Responses you will receive. 

Showcase your Users' Feedback on your Pages

If you want to collect user feedback, which you can then demonstrate for the world to see, you can choose the course where You have the option to gather user feedback and showcase it publicly. To do so, you can select the location within your course where you'd like to feature a quote or testimonial and then incorporate a section titled "Persons & Quotes" anywhere in the course layout or description page. 

If you want to learn more about gathering and showcasing user feedback, click here.