So, one thing that I do at the start of a new semester is get students to give me their contact information (that sounds too grandiose, it’s really just their name and email address). A few years ago, I wrote a PHP script to do this for me, though hosting a PHP script for this is overkill for most people.
Google recently extended their Docs capabilities to allow for easy form sharing/info grabbing. I just tested it, and it honestly took me less than 2 minutes to create a simple form and start getting information in it. Wow. According to Google:
Create a form in a Google Docs spreadsheet and send it out to anyone with an email address. They won’t need to sign in, and they can respond directly from the email message or from an automatically generated web page. Creating the form is easy: start with a spreadsheet to get the form, or start by creating the form and you’ll get the spreadsheet automatically. Responses are automatically added to your spreadsheet.
I created a short screencast that goes through the process of creating the form and populating it with an initial bit of data.
(Via Daring Fireball)
Thanks for sharing this, Dan. Looks like a wonderful resource. Can’t wait to try it out
Comment by ccossar — February 6, 2008 @ 10:14 pm |
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I’m with Connie, thanks for sharing. I’ll have to try it out.
Comment by kibrown — February 10, 2008 @ 8:21 pm |
Dan, thanks for the inside information. I’m just entering the process of revising some of our school forms and trying to move to an electronic format where possible. This should help.
Comment by Dean Miezianko — February 12, 2008 @ 8:03 pm |