September 6, 2016

Protect Your Google Form by Adding A Password

Google Forms can now be used to create a quiz for students and then seamlessly distributed through Google Classroom. But....how do you make sure only students who are suppose to access the quiz are the ones who do? Simple.....add a password.

Here is how:

1. In GoogleForm, add a question at the very top and call it “Password.” Make it a required question.
   
2. Change the type of question to Short Answer.
   
3. Click the three dots on the bottom right- hand corner and select Data Validation.
   
4. In Data Validation-pull down the boxes and make sure it says Regular Expression - Matches - (whatever your password will be)
   
5. In Custom Error Text, you can add a message you want the viewer to receive if they type in the password incorrectly.
   
6. Add another section and carry on with creating the quiz.
   

*HINT: you can put in the password yourself and not tell the student or you can share the password with one class and then change it between classes in the Google Form.