Using Google Apps to Collect and Analyze Data

Using Google Apps to Collect and Analyze Data

Joe Donahue

personal email: jdonahue805@gmail.comschool email: jdonahue@collegeschooldistrict.orgG+: jdonahue805twitter: @jdonahue805

Why Google Apps?

● Forms make data collection easy

● Sheets make data analysis easy

● Google makes collaboration, sharing, and communication easy!

What is Google Forms?Google Forms is a free tool from Google that allows you to do the following:● Create forms, surveys, quizzes, and such

● Share the forms with others● Allow others to complete the forms online● Collect all the responses in a spreadsheet

● Provide you with helpful summaries of the collected data with charts and graphs

Creating a new form

Editing Form Questions

Adding Questions

Types of Questions

Types of Questions

Types of Questions

Insert an Image

Insert an Video

After the form is submitted

Where to save data

Sending out the form

Viewing Responses

Setting submission notifications

What types of data?

What types of data?

Analyzing data in sheets

Google Sheets

● Google’s spreadsheet tool

● You can sort

Google Sheets

● Google’s spreadsheet tool

● You can sort, filter,

Google Sheets

● Google’s spreadsheet tool

● You can sort, filter, find and replace,

Google Sheets

● Google’s spreadsheet tool

● You can sort, filter, find and replace, create formulas,

Google Sheets

● Google’s spreadsheet tool

● You can sort, filter, find and replace, create formulas, create graphs and tables.

Sorting

● Freeze your headings

Sorting

● Data>Sort○ Column○ Row○ Range

Filtering

Activity● Make a copy of this Doc

○ File > Make a copy (rename your copy)

● Freeze the heading● Sort the “Loan Count” column● Filter by Genre

Find and Replace

Find and Replace Qualitative Quantitative

Create Formulas

Create graphs and tables

Activity

● Go back to your copy of this Doc○ File > Make a copy (rename your copy)

● Create a chart in the chart editor

Summary

● Use Forms to create/collect data● Use Sheets to analyze data● Ways to use forms/sheets in the classroom

● Questions??????● Evaluation

Credits:Eric Curtis, “Creating Google Forms”