Best form builders

 Hi! Have you ever used forms? It is an amazing tool! You can create polls fast and collect data from a respondent. It is fast, cheap, and technological. Let's find the best one!

Google Forms is an excellent form builder app for many reasons. First, it's entirely free; you just need a Google account to use it. Second, it automatically saves your form results to a Google Sheets spreadsheet for advanced analysis. Finally, it's incredibly fast: adding and editing form fields in the Google Forms editor is noticeably faster than using almost any other form app (you can even reuse questions previously added to other forms to speed up the process even more).

Microsoft Forms is Microsoft's answer to Google Forms, and it works largely in the same way, but with more data analysis functionality thanks to its integration with Excel.

Adding questions to Microsoft Forms is fast and simple: add a question, choose the answer format, and type in your questions and response options. And while Microsoft Forms doesn't offer some of the response types you'll find in Google Forms—it doesn't allow respondents to upload files, for example—it does have response types you won't find in Google Forms, like Net Promoter Score.

When you're finished building your form, you can send people a direct link to respond, or you can grab the embed code to add the form to your website or embed it in Sway. Then, get a quick overview of your responses within the Microsoft Forms interface, or open your responses in an Excel spreadsheet to do more detailed digging or visualize your collected data.

Typeform tosses away the old conventions of a long page of questions and response fields. Typeform's forms are uniquely designed, showing one question at a time and blurring out the others, making the overall form submission process feel very conversational and intimate. Respondents can tap a designated key on their keyboards to select multiple-choice options, type to sort through dropdown menu options, and press Enter to jump to the next field.

It might not work for every form, but you'll find new ways to use forms with Typeform since forms can include cover pages, paragraphs of text, and multimedia along with traditional form fields. It's also one of the best options if you want your form to look great on mobile: Typeform's oversized buttons are far easier to use on a touchscreen than standard radio buttons.

JotForm lets you build a free form that does everything you need it to do and looks exactly how you want it to look. JotForm's forms are much more customizable than forms created on Google Forms and Microsoft Forms. 

JotForm also stands out with its immense template library — you can choose from more than 10,000 form templates that cover everything from contact forms and employment applications to new patient registration forms and market research surveys. 

Then, add a logo, build or edit your form using nearly two dozen different types of form fields, set up payment integrations, and take advantage of a variety of widgets that let you do things like collect signatures, validate emails, add a progress bar, and much more.

If you need to work in a spreadsheet or create visuals, JotForm makes it easy to do that, too. Download your responses as an Excel spreadsheet, HTML table, or visual report. 

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New teachers have a steep learning curve: creating all of their new lesson plans, putting together their new classroom, learning to balance their new responsibilities of parent communications, behavioral issues, and the list goes on. But in the end they’re still responsible for making sure their students master the given standards per grade. With so much at stake, it’s in the best interest of new teachers (and all teachers) to use common formative assessments.

Formative assessments are frequent, daily or weekly learning checks that provide guidance to both the teacher and the student on two areas: where the student has achieved mastery, and where the student needs additional support to learn.

Why should we use it at schools? 

1. Regular and timely feedback regarding student attainment of most critical standards, which allows teachers to modify instruction to better meet the diverse learning needs of all students.

2. Multiple-measure assessments that allow students to demonstrate their understanding in a variety of formats.

3. Ongoing collaboration opportunities for grade-level, course, and department teachers.

4. Consistent expectations within a grade level, course, and department regarding standards, instruction, and assessment priorities.

5. Agreed-upon criteria for proficiency to be met within each individual classroom, grade level, school, and district.

6. Deliberate alignment of classroom, school, district, and state assessments to better prepare students for success on state assessments.

7. Results that have predictive value as to how students are likely to do on each succeeding assessment, in time to make instructional modifications.

Today there are a lot of tools that may make your life easier when it comes to formative assessments. 

Inside Google Classroom, you have the option to create questions and share that with students. You can make this collaborative, or just have the answers viewable for you the teacher. This is not a robust threaded discussion tool like I wish it was, but it can be handy for formative assessments and to check for understanding.

Formative is a free online assessment tool that is very robust. Formative allows teachers to choose pre-made assessments and edit to fit your needs, create your own from scratch, or even upload a PDF or doc to create. They also offer some fantastic data that you can track and intervene when needed. (FREE and integrates with Google Classroom!)

Pear Deck is a web-based formative assessment tool that allows you to create interactive lessons using G Suite tools. The Google Slides add-on has quickly become a favorite of mine. (I even teach it in my Google Slides Master Class!) Pear Deck offers a library of free templates that you can use to created interactive assessments in your slides.