1. Go to forms.google.com.
2. Click Blank form .
3. Name your untitled form.

1. Open a form in Google Forms.
2. Click Add .
3. To the right of the question title, choose the type of question you want.
4. Type the possible responses to your question. To prevent people from not answering, turn on Required.

• To move a question, at the top of a question, click Drag .
• To add a description to a question, click More Description.
• To add an image to a question, click Add image .
• To add a YouTube video to a question, click Add video .
• To delete a question, click Delete .

1. In Google Forms, open a form.
2. Click Customize theme .
3. Under "Themes," click a theme.

Note: Organization-branded themes appear only if your administrator makes them available.

1. In Google Forms, open a form.
2. Click Add Section .
3. Name the new section.

1. In Google Forms, open a form.
2. Click Customize theme .
3. Below "Text," you can change the font style for headers, questions, and text. Choose the text style you want to edit, then change the font and size.
4. Click Close .

Control and monitor access

Allow access from outside your organization

By default, access is restricted to people inside your organization. People must sign in with their email address to access your form.

To share a form with people outside your organization:

1. Open a form in Google Forms.
2. At the top of the form, click Settings.
3. Next to “Responses,” click the Down arrow .
4. Turn off Restrict to users in [your-company.com] and its trusted organizations.

Collect email addresses of participants

Record the email addresses from people who fill out your form. When someone takes your survey, they will be required to enter their email address before they submit the form.

Collect verified emails

Important: Respondents must confirm their Google Account email address gets collected with their response. The confirmation displays on each page of the form.

1. Open a form in Google Forms.
2. At the top, click Settings.
3. Next to “Responses,” click the Down arrow .
4. Under "Collect email addresses," select Verified.

Collect emails manually

1. Open a form in Google Forms.
2. At the top, click Settings.
3. Next to “Responses,” click the Down arrow .
4. Under "Collect email addresses," select Responder input.

Review your form

Preview it yourself

At any time, you can preview your form to see what the changes look like.

1. At the top right, click Preview .The preview opens in a new window.
2. To edit the form, click Edit  or go back to your editing window.

Send it to collaborators for review

Before sending your form, you can let people review and edit it. Whoever you invite can edit any part of your form, including responses and where they are saved.

1. Open a form in Google Forms.
2. In the top right, click More .
3. Click Add collaborators.
4. Click "Invite people."
5. In the "Add editors" window, add email addresses to share it with others.
6. Click Send.

Report abusive content in a form

You can report abusive content in a form from your computer.

1. To report a violation in a form, you can:
   • At the bottom left, Help Report.
   • At the bottom, click Report.
   • If you're an editor, click More Report.
2. Choose the type of abuse found in the form.
3. Click Submit Abuse Report.

Publish your form and get responses

On this page:

• Publish your form
• Get form responses

Publish your form

Before responders can access your form, you need to publish it. When your form is ready to share, you can share it through email, social media, or embed on a website or blog.

1. At the top right, click Publish.
2. To select who can respond to the form, click Manage.
3. To give responder access to the users, add them to your form.
   1. Click Share.
   2. Optional: To notify the responders, click Notify these responders.
      • You can also include a message.
   3. Click Publish or Publish and notify.
4. Optional: Under “General access,” you can give access to anyone with a link or to target audiences.
5. Click Done Publish.
   • Once your form is published, at the top right, it shows “Published.”
   • To change publishing options, click Published.

Share your form with responders

1. Open a form in Google Forms.
2. To share your form with responders, click Share .
3. Optional: Under “General access,” you can give access to anyone with a link or target audiences.
4. Enter the names of the people or groups.
5. To select the level of access, next to the responder names, click Down arrow   Responder.
   • Optional: To select a date to remove access to the form:
     1. Click Add expiration.
     2. In the calendar, select a date.
     3. Click Done.
   • Optional: To remove expiration, click Edit expiration   Remove expiration.
6. If the form is published, an email notification will be shared when you send the form.
   • Optional: For published forms, you can add a message to your email notification.
   • Optional: If you don’t want to send a notification, uncheck the box next to “Notify People.”
7. Click Send.

Email your form

To automatically send the form in an email notification when you share a form, click the box next to “Notify People.” If you notify responders when you publish the form, the email sent to them includes the form.

Tip: You can’t embed a form in an email when it contains:

• File upload question
• Rating question
• Image in a question or an option
• Secured quiz

Share a link to your form

To get the form link for responders, you can either:

• At the top right, click Preview  Copy responder link.
• Once you publish the form, click Published  Copy responder link.
• At the top right, click Share  Copy responder link.

Tip: You can copy a short link once you publish the form:

1. Click the box next to “Shorten URL.”
2. Click Copy.

Add a form to a website or blog

To embed a form on a website or blog:

1. Open a form in Google Forms.
2. At the top right, click More menu .
3. Select Embed HTML .
4. To copy the HTML that shows, click Copy.
5. Paste the HTML into your website or blog.

Get form responses

Open the Responses tab

Send responses to a spreadsheet

1. Open a form in Google Forms.
2. At the top, click Responses  Summary.
3. At the top right, click More   Select destination for responses.
4. Select an option:
   • Create a new spreadsheet:Creates a spreadsheet for responses in Google Sheets.
     • When you use your Google Forms data to create a new sheet, Google Sheets automatically puts your data in a table, bringing format and structure to your data.
   • Select existing spreadsheet: To store responses, select from your existing spreadsheets in Google Sheets.
5. Click Create or Select.

Stop collecting responses

When you create a new form, response collection is automatically turned on. You can pause or stop it. For example, if you find a mistake after sending out a form, you can pause response collection until the error is fixed.

1. Open a form in Google Forms.
2. At the top right, click Published.
3. Turn Accepting responses from On to Off.
4. Click Save.

After you've turned this off, you'll see a message in the "Responses" tab that says "This form isn't accepting responses."