The Center for Teaching and Learning Innovation aims to support educators across MSU’s ecosystem with a “library” of student-facing surveys for collecting formative feedback, checking in with learners, and setting the tone for your learning experience.
Google Forms can be used to design anonymous surveys, providing long-form or multiple-choice questions, basic Likert-scale answer keys, and basic statistical data. CTLI Student Feedback (google drive folder) offers pre-made forms to reduce barriers to educator use. Additional information about putting these forms into practice can be found on iteach.commons.msu.edu. Existing forms for duplication currently include:
- mid-semester feedback
- post-crisis check-in
- pre-semester technology and access
- group agreements (for in-class group work)*
- pre-semester accessibility needs/preferences
- weekly student check-ins (example 1 and 2)
*not anonymous
CTLI’s survey templates require some edits and modification.
Users of the Google Form are asked to Copy the Google Form to their own Google Drive (while logged in with their MSU credentials) so that the form and collected data is owned by the user.
Instructions for copying a Google Form from the “survey library”:
- Right click on the CTLI Google Form you’d like to send to your students. Click Make a Copy.
- Open your copy of the Google Form and review the instructions embedded in the Google Form itself. Please review the survey headers and descriptions in their entirety. The Google survey templates are built in a way that the instructor can quickly and easily update the information to individualize it to their course.
- When you have completed your edits, click the Send button in the right-hand corner of the Google Form. To maintain anonymity, please ensure that the “Automatically collect respondent’s Michigan State University email address” checkbox is unchecked.
- For the Group Contract Form, anonymity is unnecessary.
- Select the link or the HTML embed link as options to send your survey. Please note that sending the survey via email will deanonymize the survey.
Please direct questions on process or access to Makena Neal.
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