Creating Effective Thesis Survey Forms Using Google Forms

Class Description:

Are you working on a thesis or research project and need to create a professional, well-structured survey? In this class, “Creating Effective Thesis Survey Forms Using Google Forms,” you’ll learn exactly how to design, build, and share impactful surveys for academic purposes.

This beginner-friendly course is perfect for students preparing for a thesis, dissertation, or capstone project, as well as educators and early-stage researchers. Whether your research involves social behavior, education, health, or any other field, this class will teach you how to collect clean, organized, and ethical data using Google Forms, a free, powerful, and easy-to-use tool.

We’ll walk step-by-step through the process of setting up your form, writing consent and purpose statements, creating different types of questions, organizing with sections and logic, and exporting your data for analysis. You'll also complete a hands-on project: building your own survey from scratch based on your thesis topic.

By the end of this class, you'll have the skills to create surveys that are not only functional but also professional and research-ready.

What You’ll Learn:

• How to create and set up a Google Form for academic surveys

• Writing effective titles and ethical descriptions with consent statements

• Designing various question types (multiple choice, text, etc.)

• Organizing surveys with sections and logic branching

• Customizing the look and settings of your form

• Sharing your form via email, link, or QR code

• Collecting and connecting responses to Google Sheets

• Exporting and preparing data for analysis (CSV/Speadsheet formats)