A Solution When Google Forms or Microsoft Forms Won’t Do What You Need
Google Forms and Microsoft Forms can be used to accomplish a lot of common school tasks like creating self-grading quizzes, managing sign-out/sign-in sheets, and collecting survey data. But there are some tasks that Google Forms and Microsoft Forms can’t do or can only do in a rather convoluted way. I was reminded of this when […]
Three Ways to Create Online Forms to Collect Samples of Your Students’ Work
This blog post originally appeared as in my Practical Ed Tech Newsletter. Subscribe to have my favorite tips sent to your inbox every Sunday evening. Teaching online classes and hybrid classes is a new challenge for many if not most of us. Collecting samples of work like math problems that students have traditionally done on […]
JotForm Offers an Easy Way to Schedule Meetings
Yesterday I wrote a short overview of some tools for scheduling parent-teacher conferences. JotForm was one of the tools featured in that post. One of the things that is great about JotForm’s meeting scheduling tool is that it prevents double-booking of time slots. I made the following short video to demonstrate how easy it is […]
Tools for Scheduling Parent-Teacher Conferences and Other Meetings
The end of the first quarter or third of the school year is almost here for many of us. That means it’s time for parent-teacher conferences. At my school, we have to schedule those meetings with parents. Based on the questions I’ve seen in my inbox this week, my school isn’t the only one that […]
Alternatives to Google Forms
Earlier this week I answered an email from a reader who was looking for a way to collect “check-in” information from students but didn’t want to use Google Forms. Here are the alternatives to Google Forms that I suggested she try. JotForm JotForm is a good tool for creating fillable PDFs and online forms for things […]
Three Easy Ways to Create Forms That Accept File Uploads
Last week Microsoft announced that a new file collection option has been added to Microsoft Forms. That feature is the option to accept file uploads in response to questions. The file upload option is already available to some users and is rolling out to others over the next few weeks. Microsoft Forms isn’t the only […]
Five Ways to Collect Registration Information for Summer Events
This time of year always feels exceptionally busy as the end of the school year nears while at the same time many of us are planning for summer activities like camps and summer enrichment programs. Automating or streamlining as many things as possible can make things feel a little less hectic. If you find yourself […]
JotForm Offers a Great Way to Collect Registrations for Summer Camps and Field Trips
Summer might feel far away right now, but those of us who organize summer camps and summer field trips are already getting into full planning mode for the summer. If you have organized any kind of camp, field trip, or summer workshop you might have used Google Forms or good old fashioned paper forms to […]
Create Fillable PDFs and Online Forms With JotForm
JotForm is a great tool for creating fillable PDFs and online forms for things like course registration, permission slips, and course evaluations. Last week I wrote a detailed overview of JotForm. Today, I made a video that walks you through the features of JotForm from the perspective of a form creator and a form respondent. […]
JotForm – A Better Way to Create Online Forms
Disclosure: JotForm is an advertiser on FreeTech4teachers.com If you have ever looked at a form on a web page and thought, “I’d like my forms to look like that,” then JotForm is the service you need to try. JotForm is a service for making fillable online forms. You can use JotForm to create registration forms, […]