Google Forms: Versatile tool for companies but also for academic research
September 02, 2019

Google Forms: Versatile tool for companies but also for academic research

María Lucía Santagata | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Google Forms

We use Google Forms to address many issues all across the company. In my department, we use it to ask the clients for advice on the work we deliver to them regularly. We also use Google Forms to ask for procedures that always require certain information to run (for example, reprocessing data). HR uses to understand employees' necessities, and they made an anonymous form for us to send in advice and complains.
  • It's easy to design a form according to your specific needs, like asking the customers for their point of view about the service given.
  • It allows users to consume the form information in text answers and in graphs, and to filter the responses individually if needed.
  • If you want to make some tests after some capacitation or something, it's also easy and fast to make one to evaluate people.
  • Sometimes, especially when filling tests, it can be counterintuitive and leads to mistakes in the answers.
  • Maybe a prettier interface would work better. It's not that it's actually ugly but it is a bit plain.
  • More options to export.
  • It made easier to get (and track!!) information across the whole company and avoid neverending emails that frequently get lost.
  • It made it easier to track our clients' reviews and opinions about our work. Before using Google Forms, we didn't have a standardized way to get those reviews.
I think it's a free tool very useful in environments where other people's opinions are relevant (client's opinion, etc.). It is also helpful when you need to get information fast and securely and then need to store that information somewhere automatically. I found Google Forms is very useful while doing some academic research on linguistics!

Google Forms Feature Ratings

Survey templates
8
Themes
6
Custom logo/branding
Not Rated
Changes to live survey
7
Question design help
8
Multiple question types
10
Survey logic flexibility
9
Response tracking
10
Data export
6
Standard reports
9
Custom reports
6
Analytics
7
Vendor-offered crowdsourcing
Not Rated
Respondent restrictions
10
Access controls
10
Compliance
Not Rated