SURVEY SERVICES

Google forms are widely used to create surveys easily and quickly since they allow you to plan events, ask questions to your employees or clients and collect diverse type of information in a simple and efficient way, this web platform allow us to include different types of questions such as short answers, paragraphs, multiple selection, verification boxes, pull-down, linear scale, grid of several options, among others.

Advantages of using Google forms

It is a free online tool, that allows you collect information easily and efficiently.

With Google forms you can create surveys in few minutes to ask your clients or collaborators information about your products or service.

To start using this tool, you only need a Google account, the same one you need to access Gmail, YouTube or Google Drive.

The interface is very easy to use. Any user with an average Internet knowledge can create forms using this tool.

The assistant is simple to use. The What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get interface makes it easy to drag and drop form elements and organize them based on actions or events.

At the design level it is possible to choose between a palette of colors, as well as own images as a background.

Google forms stores the feedback received so we can analyze it in detail.

The forms are integrated with Google spreadsheets therefore we can access to a spreadsheet view of the collected data.

The general configuration of forms or surveys allows you to collect the recipient’s email address and limit the answers.

Google forms allows us to see how the survey will look before sending it over to the recipients.

We can send the form by email, integrate it into our website or send the link via social networks or any other means.

Disadvantages of using Google forms

It is necessary to have internet to be able to use this tool.

Is not optimized to use in a Tablet or Phone in terms of design and responsiveness.

You can’t collect some rich metadata as Pictures, Barcodes and Signatures.

The design customization is very limited. Advanced users can change the design to use the tool with a greater number of purposes.

Can’t integrate and connect with your own System, if you have large datasets of dynamics data in your forms could be difficult to create and update your form.

There are certain limitations regarding the capabilities of this tool. It accepts texts up to 500 Kb; images up to 2 Mb; and for spreadsheets the limit is 256 cells or 40 sheets.

Example of using Google forms: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Yvc7vca1fgTU0GHoOsozfxoAN8-u7ksVIQ03V55dEmU/edit