How To Create A Multiple Choice Grid In Google Forms

How to Make a Multiple Choice Grid in Google Forms – Quick Steps

1. Access Google Forms.
2. Add a Multiple Choice Grid question.
3. Set rows and columns.
4. Make it required if needed.
5. Share the form to collect responses.

Introducing the world of versatility and structured data collection in Google Forms! Creating a Multiple Choice Grid is a powerful tool that allows you to gather and analyze opinions, preferences, and responses in an organized and visually intuitive format. In this guide, we’ll walk you through the step-by-step process of crafting a Multiple Choice Grid in Google Forms, equipping you with the skills to efficiently collect and interpret data for a wide range of purposes, from surveys and assessments to feedback and decision-making. Let’s dive in and transform your form-building experience!

In this article, we are going to learn how to create a multiple-choice grid in Google Forms.

What is Google Forms

Google Forms is a survey administration software that is free of cost. Mainly people use it for surveys and sometimes it is even used for quizzes.

• Results are interpreted by Google Forms in visualized form, which is easy to analyze and useful for in-depth analysis.
• So many question types like MCQ(Multiple Choice Questions), Short answers, Long answers, grids, scales, and Multiple choice grids, etc are supported.
• Google Forms are supported on both desktop and mobile devices.
• There also exist some existing templates which are very helpful.

What is a Multiple Choice Grid Question

Multiple choice grid question is a type of format mainly used in surveys and feedback. A form-filling person can respond to a set of questions under the same context and also share common answer options. Questions that can have two or many options can also be a part of Multiple-choice grid questions.

• This type of format is useful in gathering data.
• Google form shows a detailed report of this data which will be very helpful to analyse.

Google Forms Multiple Choice Grid vs Check Box Grid

1. In the Check grid, only a single question can be asked but in the Multiple choice grid, a set of questions sharing the same type of responses can be asked.
2. Only one option can be selected from a row in the Multiple choice grid as in Check Grid multiple options can be selected in a single row.
3. The similarity between the two is that they can offer so many answer options to the Respondent.
4. The other option in the Check grid stands out because it takes text from the respondent which is not available in the options for a given question. This gives comfort and independence to form a fulfilling person to share their thoughts.
5. Multiple Choice Grid stands out by saving respondents time and giving them ease to finish quickly.

Different Types of Multiple-Choice Grid Questions

1. Matching Type Quizzes

In this type, Questions are asked to match with answers which are in different rows, so it’s like a match the following implemented in Multiple choice grid format. Questions are given in row side and all options are available in columns Form filling person correctly needs to match to get the score.

Example: If a teacher wants to conduct a quiz for her students and wants to create a match the following for countries and their capitals. “Match the country with its capital ” is given as a Question and Countries’ names are given in rows and capitals in columns. Students get a score if they correctly match the row with columns.

2. Selection Type Forms

In this type, Questions are asked in a way such that answers one or more from the given list are selected. It’s,= the most common type of multiple-choice grid question asked in most surveys, questionnaires, and forms.

Example: Suppose a company wants to ask ‘In which programming language do you select as a developer under different conditions?’. Rows are given with conditions like ‘Which oops supporting language do you prefer?’. Columns can have options like Java, Python, C++, JavaScript, etc.

3. Ranking Questions

In this type, questions are ranked or compared with some parameters, preferences, or any other criteria. Here the person filling form is given the option like to choose the question from ‘Best to Worst’ or ‘1 to 10 on the scale’ or ‘Preferred to Don’t recommend’.

Example: Let us suppose a restaurant wants to know How food is. How are the surroundings?, How happy they are with services? etc. All the above questions can take common ratings like Best, Very Good, Good, and Customers Bad. So customers can just give ratings in a simplified Google form rather than having individual questions for every.

How To Create A Multiple Choice Grid In Google Forms

Now let’s see the procedure for how to create a multiple-choice grid in Google Forms:-

Step 1: Open Google Forms

Go to Google Chrome search for Google Forms and open the first link.

Google form – Google search

Step 2: Select Go to Forms

Click on Go To Forms and it will redirect to the Google Forms website. (Below is the cropped image of how the website of Google Forms looks like.)

Select Go to Forms

Step 3: Open a New Blank Form

Click on Blank under Start a new form.

Select Blank

Step 4: Fill the details in Dashboard

This is the dashboard of the empty blank form.

• It has 3 main sections Questions, Responses, and Settings
• Questions are developed by you and the format is decided by you. Responses are received when the intended users fill out your form.

Dashboard of Google Form

Step 5: Give Title and Description

Let’s first give the form a title and description. This information makes what all this Google form is for.

Title and Description

Step 6: Click on Untitled Question

Now move your mouse to the untitled question and click on the untitled question. You can see a lot of options available.

Click on Untitled Question

Step 7: Select Multiple Choice and Choose Multiple Choice Grid

Click on Multiple choice on the right side. You can see a lot of features available. Select Multiple choice grid from them.

Select Multiple Choice

Select Multiple choice grid from the list

Step 8: Type the Question

Click on the untitled question to type the question and enter the text of the question.

Type the Question

Step 9: Add Questions/Add Rows

Click on Row 1 to add the questions and Click on Add Row to increase the rows.

Add rows and increase rows

Step 10: Adding columns

Type – 1: If you leave with one column (default ), then it will look like this for the person who is filling the Google Form.

Default – Columns

Type-2: If you add multi-column output, then it will look like this for the person who is filling out the Google Form.

Add multiple Columns

Additional Settings for Multiple Choice Grids

More Options

If you click on three dots that are on the downside help take, you can see more options:

How to Limit to One Response Per Column

• The person filling the form can’t give yes to all in the above case. So the filling person needs to give different answers to all the questions.
• This feature will help take surveys, so you get diversified information from the survey.

Limit one response per column

How to Shuffle Row order

• This feature randomly shuffles the orders of rows from top to bottom. So If 10 people are filling your Google Form order will be different for each person.
• This feature will be mainly helpful for the teachers conducting their quizzes in Google Forms, stopping students from Mal practising.

Require a response in each row

• You can enable Require a response in each row, so the form filler must give a response in each row (Or else He/she can’t submit the Google form).
• This is one of the important features, This feature makes sure that the Person fills the response in each row unless He/she is not able to submit the form.

Enable Require a response in each row

The below image shows what it will look like for the person left out of a row while filling out the form.

Require Response in each row feature – Enabled question

Note:

TO REGULARLY VIEW HOW YOUR FORM LOOKS LIKE – Click on eye on the right side of your Dashboard.

This feature is very helpful to the designer of the Google form as it gives him an idea of how the page going to be for the form filler

Dashboard

Challenges of Making a Multiple-Choice Grid in Google Forms

1. Multiple choice grids are cut off on mobile

It is tough both to create and to give responses for a multiple-choice grid in Google Forms.

While creating a multiple-choice grid on mobile, as the screen space is limited and there are more features and options available it is tough for the form-creating person to utilize all options with ease.

While filling out the form consisting of multiple choice grid questions, the user can’t respond to these questions with ease. It is tough for him to cope with all the rows and columns, and select the correct answer without disturbing other selected answers.

2. It’s often not the right tool for the job

It is not suitable for questions that need, customized answers from the users.

Creating a very complex multiple choice is tough and also sometimes confuses the form respondent.

Conclusion

Thus this is the procedure of creating a Multiple choice grid in Google Forms with all features. This feature can be very helpful for data gathering either in the form of surveys or questionnaires. This format of questions won’t trouble users much as it is very simple and graspable.

FAQs

What are the benefits of using Google Forms?

• It is free of cost to use
• There are so many types of questions that can be asked.
• It is easy to share the form links in your emails, social media, etc.
• Responses received are collected in real-time and a neat, in-depth, detailed analysis is shown to the form creator.
• It is very user-friendly

Can I insert an image into Multiple Choice Question?

Yes, you can add an image to your question. Click on the image emoji that is on your right side of the question that will open an upload tab. In the upload tab, you can select from your Google Drive or upload from your local device. This will give more data and clarity to the form respondent.

How do I add columns to multiple choices in Google Forms?

To add Columns to multiple choices grid in Google Form you just need to select add column and label each answer option individually.