Question types in Google Forms

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How to add Email address to Google Forms?

There are two ways to collect email address in Google Forms. You can enable the "Collect email addresses" option in the Settings or add a short answer question with email address response validation.

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How to add Short answer to Google Forms?

Short answer question allows users to write answers in a few words. You can use this question to collect names, email addresses, phone numbers, website url & more. You can set rules to get the answers you need.

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How to add Number to Google Forms?

You can use short answer question with Number validation to accept numbers as answers. You can use the following number validations with short answer question.

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How to add Paragraph to Google Forms?

Paragraph question allows users to write long answers with one or more paragraphs. By default, this does not have any character or word limit, but you can use the response validation option to limit responses to specified number of characters or words.

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How to add Multiple choice to Google Forms?

Multiple choice question allows users to select only one answer from the available choices. This is ideally suited for questions with limited answer choices (<10). You could use this for longer list of choices as well, but it is not recommended; you should use dropdown question in such cases.

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How to add Checkboxes to Google Forms?

Checkboxes question allows users to select multiple answers from the available choices. This is similar to a Multiple choice question except that it allows users to select more than 1 answer choices.

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How to add Dropdown to Google Forms?

Dropdown question allows users to select an answer from a [long] list of options. This is similar to a multiple choice question that allows users to select only one answer from the available choices.

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How to add Linear scale to Google Forms?

Linear scale question allows users to provide a numeric response to a statement or a question. The end points of the linear scales can be named to provide a reference for the users. You can create a linear scale that starts from either 0 or 1 and ends on a whole number from 2 to 10 with labels for each end of the scale.

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How to add Multiple choice grid to Google Forms?

Multiple choice grid question allows users to select one answer per row. You can customize the question to limit users to select only one answer per column. You can also shuffle the row order to eliminate the order bias and improve the form responses.

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How to add Likert scale to Google Forms?

Likert scale questions can be used to measure people's attitudes and opinions to any statement or topic. You can create a Likert scale question using multiple choice or multiple choice grid questions. Here's an example below.

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How to add Frequency scale to Google Forms?

Frequency scale questions can be used to understand how often users use a product or perform a certain action. You can create frequency scale question using the multiple choice grid question type. Here's an example below.

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How to add Ranking scale to Google Forms?

Ranking question allows users to rank a list of choices in the order of importance or priority. You can add a multiple choice grid question and enable both Requires a response in each row & Limit to one response per column option to create a ranking question. Here's an example below.

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How to add Voting to Google Forms?

Voting question allows users to rank/vote for their preferred choices from the list of choices. You can add a multiple choice grid question and enable both Requires a response in each row & Limit to one response per column option to create a voting question. Here's an example below.

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How to add Checkbox grid to Google Forms?

Checkbox grid question allows users to select multiple answers for each row in a grid. You can limit users to select only one answer per column and make users answer each question (row). You can also shuffle the row order to eliminate the order bias and improve the form responses.

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How to add Date to Google Forms?

Date question allows users to fill any date. You can customize this question to collect just the day and month, or include optional year and time.

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How to add Time & Duration to Google Forms?

Time question allows users to enter the time in 12 hr am/pm format. You can also let users enter duration [of an activity] in hours, minutes and seconds.

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