 Good morning and welcome to this week's edition of Encompass Live. I am your host, Krista Porter, here at the Nebraska Library Commission. Encompass Live is the Commission's weekly online event. We are a webinar, yes, covering anything of interest to libraries, variety of library topics and activities on the show. The show is broadcast live every Wednesday morning from 10 to 11 a.m. central time. So be sure to keep that in mind when you're trying to watch the show when we are in your time zone. We do a, but if you're unable to join us for the live show, that's okay as well. We do record the show every week as we are doing this morning and it is posted, the archive is posted to our website. If there are any presentations or slides or handouts included, we include those as well in our recording. I'll show you where that is at the end of today's show so you can see where you can access all of our recordings. 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Our only real criteria is that it's something library related, something libraries are actually doing, something we think they might be doing, some new services or products we think they may be interested in, so you'll find quite a variety on the show. We do have some presentations, some shows that our Nebraska Library Commission staff do the presentations, the things that we are actually promoting or doing here at the Library Commission Nebraska, but we also bring on guest speakers, and that's what we have this morning. Currently with us is Megan Boggs, good morning Megan. Hello, good morning. She is from Seward Memorial Library, which is just west a bit from Lincoln, and she is on the road, pretty easy hop. She's going to talk to us about Google Forms. I've used Google Forms a lot for various things here at the Library Commission. We actually do a mixture of things. We have some of our own forms that we do for signing up for things or collecting information, but we also use Google for other situations, and she's a great presentation to tell you about how you can do this at your library. So I will just hand it over to you Megan to tell us all about Google. Alright, thanks Krista. So we have been using Google Forms at our library for a few years now. We don't use it exclusively, kind of like the Commission. We kind of use a mix of different types of forms. But Google Forms really has some advantages, and one of the things that I love first of all about Google Forms is that anyone can use it. It's free, so it's not going to take a chunk out of your budget to be able to use Google Forms. And Google is just so pervasive now, most everyone already has a Google account, and so it's just a matter of putting that Google account to work for you. We like Google Forms for a variety of different types of ways to collect information. We've used Google Forms for quick little polls that we put out on our website, like who's your favorite children's book author, or what's your favorite nonfiction area, or just different things like that. We also have used it for different types of surveys that we've sent out, so that we can either send those out via email or we can post the link on social media or in our newsletter. We have been using it quite a bit for registrations for different types of programs. You can also use it for evaluations. So if you put on an event, you can make an evaluation type form in Google Forms and send that out afterwards. You can also use it for different types of applications, like maybe your volunteers, you have them apply to volunteer at your library and offer them some different types of jobs that they might be interested in. You can make an application form like that via Google Forms. So there's lots of uses and practical applications for libraries and any type of library and any library big or small. So what I have, first of all, is I put together a little Google site. That's another free thing that you can do with Google. And so if you go to this site later, and I'm sure Krista can post the link for you later, it's sites.google.com. And you'll see this website that I've got on the screen here now. And it just has some of the basics about Google Forms. But then it has lots of different types of forms embedded into this site. So if you want to play around with it and see what your patrons would see, you can post forms embedded into sites like this location poll. Just a quick thing like, oh, well, where are you from? And I can type in here, Seward, and hit Submit, and it says your response has been recorded. And if I want to see other responses, I can click on See Previous Responses. And, oh, only one, just me. But if other people had responded, then we'd see more locations listed there. You can also have forms built into your website just via the use of a link. So like on this site here, I say here's a link for a program registration. And then they can click on that link, and it will actually take you out to another page where the form is. So here's an example of an after-school program registration. Google Forms is kind of neat because you can upload your own custom photos into it. So we've got a little photo there that I put in the background of some kids playing chess at our library. And you can put in different types of questions. They can be short answer questions. They can be multiple choice. They can be long paragraphs. There's a wide variety of types of questions that you can ask in Google Forms. And you can make certain ones required or not. So you can see here that some of these, like their name and their email address, I have all required. And here's an example of where they can choose which programs they want to register for. Just be a little checkboxes. And when they're done, you can also have it put in a little recapture so that you're not going to get a lot of spam responses, hopefully. But that's another example of a type of form that can be used. Let me switch back over to the site here. Another cool thing that you can do with Google Forms is that you can make photos part of the form itself. Like here's a little embedded form about Golden Sower winners. The Golden Sower is an award that Nebraska has for children's book authors. So here people can take a little poll and actually see some photos to remind them about the book. So those are just a few examples of some forms. But what I really want to do today for the most part of the presentation is actually walk you through this process of how to use Google Forms and show you the behind the scenes because it's really pretty simple. There's a lot that you can do with it, but it's not a hard process. And so it's something that could be really easy for any library to do. So the first thing that you would need to do is have a free Google account. And so I'm just going to start out here by opening up a new tab that takes me right to Google. And if you don't already have a free Google account, you can sign up at google.com. And then there's going to be a little sign in in the upper right hand corner where you sign into your Google account. And I'm already signed into our library's Google account. And then to access the forms, that is built into Google Drive. And Google Drive is kind of your online storage place for everything that you make with your Google account. And so to access that, once I'm signed in here, I can click on these little dots in the upper right hand corner, which gets me to all of the Google apps. And I'll find Drive listed here and click on that. This will take me to my Google Drive for the library. And if I'm starting a brand new form from scratch, I'm going to go over here to the new button in the upper left. And you can create new folders, you can upload files, you can create Google Docs, Google Spreadsheets. But we want to do forms, so it's going to be under more. And there you see it, Google Forms. And I can start with a blank form or I can use a template. If you've never done any Google Forms before, the templates are kind of nice because they get just started. They have a lot of pre-built templates for different types of forms, whether it's going to be a registration or a survey or a poll. And so those are kind of nice. But we're just going to go from scratch with a blank form. Wait for this to load. All right, so you get started with an untitled form. And let's just make this a form for maybe a program registration, maybe a story time. And so I'm going to start by naming this form something. So I'm going to call it story time registration. And if you want to, you can also give it a little description. This might be a good place to put in some general information about story time at your library. Story time is for children ages three through five and needs weekly on Tuesdays at 10 o'clock a.m. You know, whatever you wanted to put in there about your library's program. All right, once you have your title done and if you want to put a description in now, it's time to start adding questions to actually make your form work. They start you off with one untitled question. So we'll get started with that. And for a registration like story time, well, you're going to want to ask the child's name. So we'll make that the first thing. And so I typed in child's name and Google is so smart, like scarily smart. And so just by typing that in, it switched it from a multiple choice question to a short answer question. And I didn't even have to do that. It just did it automatically. I knew that it wasn't going to be the type of question where, you know, you get to choose. Well, what's your child's name? Is it Mary Sue or Bob? You only have those choices. No, it's going to be pretty. I like that. You don't even have to do anything. They knew that that was the type of question. Now, if you really did not want it to be a short answer type of question, you can click over here and this shows you all the other types of questions that you can ask. So it could be a paragraph, multiple choice checkboxes, maybe a dropdown menu with some choices. You can add a file upload option. So if you're doing some type of form where they need to send you something, a photo or something, there's a file upload option. And then there's some other fancier things like linear scales, multiple choice grids, checkbox grids. So there's lots of options in here. So we'll just stick with short answer. And then before I move on to adding another question, there are a few options here at the bottom. If I decide, oh, I don't want this question, there is a little trash can, I can delete it. If I know I'm going to have a lot of questions that are similar to this, there's a duplicate button. So I can duplicate this exact question and then just tweak it a little bit. And here's where I can choose if I want this to be a required question or not. They have to answer it. They cannot submit the form without answering it. So I'm going to say, yes, this one should be required. Now let me go ahead and add a second question. And that's using this little toolbar that's just right to the right of the form itself. And to add another question, it's this plus sign. And when I click on it, now I've got another question ready to go. And so another thing that you might want to ask is maybe you need to know their phone number. So I'll put that in as an option. And let's say that we'll make this one required also. Now here's another little cool thing that Google Forms can do. The three little dots that are located here next to the required. If I click on that, well, I could add a description to this particular question. If I feel it's a question that needs more explanation, I can do that. But what I want to show you is the response validation. So if I click on that, I don't want them to put in something like, I don't have a phone number or something. I want it to actually be a number. And so I can choose that what they put in there has to be a number. So that's a type of response validation. So it won't accept it if they put in something that's not a number. Other types of response validations. Well, you can also choose numbers that are greater than a certain number or equal to a certain number. They also have different types of text validations. So maybe if you were asking for an email, it has to contain the at sign. So that it's an email or there's just any types of things like that. If you want to make sure you're going to get the right type of answer, then you can add in these response validations and it will only accept answers that meet the criteria. I'm not actually going to do that though. So I'll just click the little X here and get rid of the response validation. All right, let me add in one more question. And we'll just make this a multiple choice question. It's not going to really have anything to do with story time. It's going to be... Let's see here. What is your child's favorite color? Maybe they get a name tag that is the favorite color. But I am going to make this one a multiple choice. And they have options of blue. They have options of purple. They have an option of pink and an option of yellow. And so that's how a multiple choice question would work. You just keep adding options. It's unlimited. I can just keep clicking on add option and type something in and add option and type something in. And you can also give the option of an other where they get a type in their own response. That's often used in forms. So if you want to get rid of any of these, there's little X's off to the side and you can erase any of the options that you put in there. So multiple choice questions are really simple with Google Forms as well. And one other thing that you'll notice is next to each one of these responses, blue, purple, pink, yellow. I have a little option over to the side next to the X of adding an image. And when I click on that, I can add images to this. If you want to put a little dab of pink, a little dab of yellow so they can visually see those colors. Maybe you've got a photo of those colors on your computer. You can upload images. You can also do a search. And maybe I want to search for yellow circle. And let's see if I find it. There we go. There's a yellow circle. I'm going to select that. I think I put it on the pink though. Whoops. That'll really confuse. I'll just change these. There we go. That one's pink. That one's yellow. Yeah. So the option of adding images to your form is really simple as well. Another thing that is really simple is just being able to change the order up. And so if I wanted to make yellow be the first choice in my multiple choice, these little dots that appear just to the left of the circle, I can click and drag on those dots and reorder my list to make it whatever I want it to be. So that's kind of nice as well. All right. Now let me show you a few of the things that are in this floating bar over here on the right in addition to adding new questions. You can also add more titles and descriptions. So maybe you have one group of questions and then you want to add another title and a description to kind of separate it out into a second group of questions. You can do that. And that just is those two T's there. You can also add in images that aren't really built into a question like we did with the colors here. But there is its own kind of thing. And that is on the floating toolbar over here. The third one down add image. And it takes you to the same place that we did before. You can upload images. You can search for images. You can access images that are already in your Google Drive. So lots of options for inserting images. Same thing with videos. That's the fourth one down from the top. You can add in videos. So maybe you're doing some kind of a form where part of it is they have to watch a little video and then answer some questions about it so you could have the video right there built into the form and it's not a separate thing that they have to do ahead of time at a different website. So I really like that feature. And then the last part of this floating toolbar is adding another section and it's also kind of I call it also adding another page of the form because when you finish the first section then you have to click next and it will take you to the second page to a new section of the form. And I like this feature a lot because it can do some neat things. So let me show you. I'm going to click on add section and here I have a new untitled section. I'm going to call it storytime continued. And I'll just add another question to it real quick. I'm going to say what age is your child? We'll make it three, four, or five. And then I'm going to add a third section, section three. We'll call this finish. And we'll add another section or another question. Let's add some kind of different type of question. Let's see here, maybe a checkbox. This could be we've used checkboxes before for types of questions where it's not just one answer. Maybe they can choose multiple things. So let's see here, which storytime do you want to attend? And maybe they have an option for Tuesday at 10 and Wednesday at 10 and Thursday at 4. And if they wanted to come to all three of those, they could checkbox all three. So I've got it divided into sections now. Now let me show you one of the cool things that you can do with these sections. Let's say that if they select yellow as their favorite color, they get to skip right over section two and jump to section three. Let me show you how you could do that. I'm going to go back up here to the question about favorite color. And in the little three little dots, I'm going to click on go to section based on answer. And so if they answer yellow, they're going to go to section three, which is our finish section. But if they select blue, purple, or pink, it'll just continue to the next section. So we have used this type of thing before where for summer registration, for example, we wanted all ages to be able to use one form, but there were different types of programs depending on age. So on the first section, they would fill in their name, their phone number, and then they would select in a multiple choice what age range they were in. Were they story time preschool age kids? Were they kindergarten and through second graders? Were they third through fifth graders? And divided it out according to what our program divisions were. And then depending on what they answered as far as age, it would take them then directly to that section of the form where they could sign up for those programs that were appropriate for their age. And so they didn't have to wade through all these programs that didn't apply to them. You know, well, I'm a fifth grader or my child's a fifth grader. And so I'm not interested in story time. They can just skip right by it. So I really like that feature of how you can divide it out to different parts of the form based upon what someone answers in a previous question. I think that's really cool. All right. So those are some of the basics about just filling out a form as far as adding questions and that type of thing. Now let me show you some of the other cool features. The first part I want to show you is back up here at the top. We have some icons up in this purple area. And first icon I'm going to show you is the settings icon. And when you click on that, this is where you can choose some of the general settings for the form itself. Like do you want to limit it so that a person can only fill out the form one time, limit it to one response? They can do that, but people would have to sign into their Google account. So we don't often use it just because we don't want to require that everyone has a Google account to fill out most of our forms. But if it is something that you want to make sure that people don't respond more than one time, you can have that option. And here's another important option. Do you want your respondents to be able to go back and edit a form after they've submitted it or once it's done, it's done? And do you also want to give them the option of seeing what the other people have responded? So in a poll, like what's your favorite author, that's really fun because then somebody can click on it and see, oh, look at all the other authors that people like. But for something like a registration, you wouldn't want that because then everybody could see everyone else's phone numbers and all of that personal information. So it depends on the type of form that you're doing as to what you would choose. You can also choose if you want to collect their email addresses. And then what that does is it makes it part of the form itself. It will show an email address field and you don't actually have to manually add the question of email address to the form. It will do it on its own. And if you choose that those people can receive an email response with the answers to what they put in on the form, that's another part of it. We like doing this for registrations at our library because that way the parent gets an email back that says, this is what you signed your child up for. And then they always have that copy and they can remind themselves about it then and they're not having to call the library and say, did I sign my child up for this or not? And so we give that as an option if they want it. They can get a copy of their responses. So those are some of the general settings. There's also some presentation kinds of settings like if it's a long survey, do you want to show a progress bar so people know, oh man, I'm only halfway through the survey or oh, I'm almost done. Do you want to give the option of the questions being shuffled? Usually I kind of like the order that I put them in, but they do have that shuffle option. And then do you want to have a link that shows up after they hit submit and turn in the form to go back and submit the response? And for things like registrations, we do like to do that because a lot of times a family has more than one child. So then the link is right there so they can go back and fill it in for their second child. And then there are also the option of using a form for quizzes or kind of tests. We don't use this one very often in our library. We're a public library, but maybe some other libraries might have more use for this. It is kind of a really cool feature because if you do choose to make your form into a quiz, you can go through every question that you enter into your form and assign point values to it. You can have it auto grade for you and the respondents can go back and see, you know, what answers they got correct and what answers they didn't. So it's kind of a neat thing. So that is the settings and it's got a lot of useful features in there. I'm not going to make that a quiz. All right, the next one over the one that looks like a little eyeball. This is the preview button. And this is where you can actually see what your form looks like to the people who will actually be using your form. And so it takes away all those behind the scenes toolbars and stuff like that and shows what it would actually be like. So here is what the form would look like to someone. Storytime registration, they fill that stuff out. Here's the favorite colors. It would have been nice if I would have added circles that were blue, purple and pink. That would have been really nice. And then because we added those sections, that's why it's giving me the neck. It's giving me the next there. And to be able to go on to the next section, I would have to make sure that any of these required fields are actually filled out. If they're not filled out and I try to hit next, it'll say, hey, wait a minute, this is a required question. You better go back up there and fill those out. The preview is nice so you can actually kind of test it out. It's not going to record the responses. It's just going to allow you to test it out in a preview mode. So let me close that back down. All right. Then the next one moving to the left again is the one that looks like an artist's palette. And this is how you can customize your form according to colors. So maybe if your library is branded with a certain color scheme, you can switch your form colors over to that. And if you want even more customization, this bottom right circle is where you can upload your own images, or you can use some of the images that they have already built in. Oh, hey, look at this one. It's a book. It looks good for libraries. I'll select that one. Then the upload photos is in the bottom left here if you wanted to upload your own image to use on your form. And then I'll hit select. And it just takes a little while to load. But there it is. It put that book image up at the top. And so now my form looks kind of extra customized. Then the last one over to the left of the paint palette is add-ons. I'm going to talk about add-ons in a little bit, but I'm going to skip it for now. The next thing that you need to know if you have your form all customized, you've got your questions in there. You've set your color scheme. You've set how your settings are. You go through it and you kind of look it over again. Like, oh, I have this weird untitled thing in here. I better delete that, click on it, get rid of it. So you can go through and do your final tweaks. The last part that you need to do before you send this out is figure out how you want to collect the responses that you get for your form. So at the top of the form here, it's divided into questions and responses. We're in the questions mode right now. If I click on responses, it says, well, you haven't gotten any yet. But first of all, this is where you can turn on and turn off whether you're accepting responses or not. So I can say, no, I'm not accepting responses. So like if you put a link out there, like in your newsletter or something, but you're only going to accept responses for a certain amount of time, then if someone came across that link later, you could have it show a custom message here that says, you know, we're no longer accepting responses. But these three little lines, once again, will give you more options here. And here's where you can get some email notifications each time you get a response of your form. You can download responses if you've already gotten a whole bunch in here or if you've gotten a whole bunch of responses, but now you want to reuse this same form for like a new year. You can delete all of the old responses and start over. What I like to do with my responses as far as where they go is I like to click on this green little button that creates a spreadsheet for the responses. So I'm going to click on that. And I don't already have an existing spreadsheet where I want the answers to go. I'm going to go ahead and just make a new one. And I'm going to call this Test Form Responses. And I'll tell it to create it. And what it will do is it will create automatically a Google spreadsheet that is saved in your Google Drive. And it has it all ready for the responses to just start rolling in. So we asked for email address, name, phone number, favorite color, age, which story time do you want. You see those all listed across the top there. And let me, now I've said where I want the responses to go. And now if I click the Send button up here, I can choose, do I want to email this out to certain people? Do I want to embed it into, well not embed, I'm at the link one, sorry. Do I want to just have a link to this somewhere? This is the one I probably use most often. And usually I do the shortened URL, which gives me a decent sized link there. And I can copy that link and I can now put that link into my newsletter. I could put that link. I could put it in my website. I could send it out via email if I already have an email list for people. So the link one is usually the one that I use. Or they also have an embed where if you want to embed the actual form into your website, it gives you some HTML code for that. And you can choose the actual width and height in pixels that you want it to show up on your website. So lots of options there for sending it. And so I got that little link. And I'm going to paste that link into a new tab here just so that we can try it out. So here's the form. I'm going to actually fill it out here real quick. Must be a valid email address. Okay, it is. Sally Jones is the child's name. The phone number is 555-123-4567. And the child's favorite color, I'm going to choose yellow because it's so bright and vivid there with the photo. And which story time? We're going to say they're going to do Tuesdays. Yes, send me a copy of my responses. So that way I remember that I registered her for Tuesday. And nope, I'm not a robot. And I'm going to submit it. Your response has been recorded. And look, there's the little link. If I want to go back now and submit another response. I'm going to close that tab. And I'm going to check here on my Google Sheet where I wanted all the responses to go. And sure enough. And I love that it time stamps it. That's not one of the questions that you have to ask or anything. It just automatically puts in a time stamp. So I know that this person who registered Sally Jones filled it out on October 25th at 1044. And so all the answers are right there. And I don't know the age of this child because remember when we set up the form, we said that if they answered yellow, it would skip over that section of the survey and go right to the other part. So that's why you're not seeing an answer to what is the age of the child. But yeah, just let me talk a little bit more about that time stamp. If you've ever done some kind of a survey or maybe you're only accepting registrations until noon on a certain day. This way you can see if somebody didn't quite get there at noon to be able to turn off the surveys so that you're not accepting any more responses. If any squeaked in after noon, you'd be able to tell because of that time stamp. So that's kind of nice. I just love that I can get the responses directly into spreadsheets using some of the other forms on our library's website that don't use Google forms. We get emails with the results of the form. And then if we want to, we have to manually enter everything into a spreadsheet. And I just love that it just does this automatically. Okay, so that is the basics of using Google forms. But if we just have about five or 10 more minutes before I answer some questions, I do want to show you a couple more little tips and tricks. I'm going to get here back into my Google Drive. And I'm going to show you. Oh, well here, let me show you this one real quick. So here's an example of a form that we used for summer program registration. And you can see that we actually made like a custom image that I uploaded for the top of the form. Had our library's logo and then the summer logo for the theme was just built right in. And so that helped people to know that it was actually, you know, the right thing that they were at. And here just a quick example, you can see that questions shows just like we were on our test form. But then responses, you can see 264. So if I click on responses here, there were actually 264 responses to this poll. And I can get kind of a general survey of all those answers. So if I wanted to actually see everything, I would go to the spreadsheet and view it in the spreadsheet. Let me go back now. I do want to show you those add-ons because that's something that's really kind of cool. I was hoping that I still had another thing in here. Hang with me. Okay, well, let's go through this one real quick. No, no, wrong one. Sorry. Okay. We'll just go back to this one. Okay. So here's the form for afterschool registrations. Let's say for your programs, your afterschool registrations here, that you've got some options. They can register for Lego Club, Story Club, Chest Club, Maker Club, or Pokemon Club. But let's say for one of these, it's limited in size. You can only take 15 kids. That's the maximum, and then it's going to cut off. That can get a little bit difficult to manage because if the registrations start rolling in, and there's not somebody who's constantly checking the spreadsheet to see, oh, have we hit the 15 child limit to that yet? How am I going to know when I have to turn that off? This is where things like add-ons come in handy. To access add-ons, you've got the send button here at the top. And just to the right of that, you've got the more button. And this is where you can go and actually find add-ons. If I click on add-ons here, it will bring up a place where I can search for different types of add-ons and try to figure out what it is I might need to help me accomplish this. And for that type of example, when a certain program is full, I want it to eliminate that as one of the choices. I found this add-on called Choice Eliminator 2. So I've got it. I already installed it. And now to actually use this add-on, I click on this add-ons button. And there it is, Choice Eliminator 2. And I'm going to configure this add-on. It takes a little while. It gives you some take note kind of things. So let's see here. I want it to be for the what programs would you like to register your child for? I'm going to say that I want it to be able to eliminate some choices. It's working on creating it. Hopefully it doesn't take too long. And then I'm going to go to the choice options here and say that for Lego Club, the limit is 50 kids. For Story Club, the limit is 40 kids. For Chess Club, it's 100. For Maker Club, it's 15. And for Pokemon, it's 50. And so now as people start filling out the form, when Maker Club, when 15 different people have checked Maker Club as a choice, then it's going to get eliminated as one of the choices. So you don't have to keep monitoring it. It's going to do the work for you. So that's kind of a neat feature. I'm just going to close that down and close that add-on down. And there's lots of other add-ons out there. So if you think, well, maybe Google Forms can't do this. Well, maybe not the Google Forms just as is, but there might be an add-on that you can add to Google Forms that can make it do what you want it to do. Well, they just don't have it. They might have an add-on out there. Now the last thing I'm going to do with you guys is I'm going to walk you through, grab the link for this form that I made, and we're going to do a quick little quiz on how well do you know Google Forms after listening to this presentation. And I actually did set this one up as a quiz because you can see this first question is worth 25 points. The next one is worth 25 points and so on. So what types of forms can you make? Quizzes, surveys, polls, registrations are all of the above. Krista, what do you think? Is it all of the above? I'm here. Okay, let's see here. Whatever you want with it, go crazy. Okay, and then, oh, I didn't talk about this. Yikes, I'm glad this is a question. Are the number of questions or responses limited on Google Forms? The actual answer, do you want to take a guess? I'm hoping no. That is correct. One of the things that I've had trouble with with some other online poll and survey types of things, like SurveyMonkey, if I don't want to buy a SurveyMonkey subscription or whatever. Yeah, we've had that same issue. You're limited to like 100 choices or 100 responses. And so Google does not have any limit on number of responses. So if you think that you're going to be getting 500 responses to your survey, hey, Google Forms can handle it. And they're not going to cut you off at a certain number. They're not going to make you pay for an upgrade to be able to accept that many. It just will let you do as many as you want. All right, can you add your own images to Google Forms? Here's an example of a dropdown. And we saw that, yes, we can. And then when we were looking at those icons, which is the icon to preview your form? Is it the paint palette, the eyeball, or the gear? I go for the eyeball. All right, now we're going to submit it, and now it's going to grade us. Let's view our score. Yes, Google Forms can do all this then more. We got the first question, right? Well, you can see it though. We did get 100 out of 100 points. Yes, hooray, no more being limited to 10 questions and 100 responses. Google Forms does have no limit. And yes, you can add your own images. And yes, the eyeball is the preview. That's it. Does anybody have any questions about Google Forms? Yeah, go ahead. We did have one that was typed in early, but if anyone else does have any questions, please do go ahead and type them into your GoToWebinar interface, and we will grab them as you type them in. Someone wanted to know about Google that we've never investigated a library Google account. Is it free for an organization? The Google accounts, basically how it works is when you sign up for a Google account, you enter in an email address. And so we entered in our basically overarching email address, which is our info at sewardlibrary.org email address. And so it acts as if it's any other Google account, and so it didn't cost us anything. But you could also enter in, you know, your personal work email address. It doesn't have to be a staff one. But yeah, it doesn't cost anything. Yeah, that's what's great about it actually for us, is that you can use, which is interesting, you can use any email address. I've got it, we use our state email addresses, which are at Nebraska.gov, but that becomes the email address for whatever Google account you've created. So they're pretty open, yeah, and it's free. Yes, there's no, it's not like because I'm, you know, rather than being an individual with a Gmail account like all of this I have, and being an organization, they do not care. No, you have anything to address? Yeah, go ahead and set something up and go to town and use it. Yeah, and the people who used the forms, like if you put a registration out there, they're not ever going to see that that form is under, you know, Joe Johnson at whatever.com. They're not going to see that. So, you know, you don't have to worry about, oh, I made this form under, you know, my personal email address and not a staff email address or something like that. Right. It's not going to matter to you. I also like, I really do also like the spreadsheets that you get out of it is so easy to organize the information you get responses, sort them, you know, you're being able to do everything and manipulate it. It goes into Google spreadsheets, Google Sheets, but... But if you wanted to download it into Excel, you could. Right, exactly. If you use Excel, that's what you want to use to share things with other people or to manipulate it. It's all exportable as that. Google is very compatible with all the Microsoft products, which is interesting, but hey, I'm happy that they are. Well, and also Google Drive where all of the stuff gets saved, all of the forms that you make and all of the spreadsheets where the responses go get saved in Google Drive. And any of those items in Google Drive, you can share with other people. So if you want to collaborate with other staff members and co-workers, you can choose to share it from yours to theirs, and then everyone has access to it, and they can all log in to their own individual Google Drive. Yeah, and you don't have to have a Google account to see some of those things, too. There's links you can share out, and I've done that as using, like I've had certain people or Nebraska Library Association-related things where they share to me as Christa.Porter at Nebraska.gov. And as long as they use that email address to say I want to share with this person with this email address, I can click on that, and it pops me into it no problem, whether or not I'm using my Google account or not. It's pretty slick, yes. Yeah, pretty nice. Does anybody else have any other questions about the Google forms? Want to see anything else done? I think making it a really good, very comprehensive showing of all the different things you can do in there. And it is, as you said, it's very similar to something. If you've used something like SurveyMonkey or those kind of form-creating sites, adding things and designing them is all pretty standard, but I think the key of Google is, as you said, it's free, it's easy, it's open to anyone to use. Yeah, no limits. And you can be so creative with it, yeah. Yes, yeah. Yeah, it's pretty diverse, and it's a robust program for being free. Mm-hmm, yeah. And as far as I know, Crosser Fingers will never charge for these kind of things. Google has other ways of making their money, so they don't need it for this. That's right. Someone did say thanks for the reminder about the add-ons. Yeah, yeah. Because, you know, there are some things that, you know, you might come across an instance of, oh, if only it could do this, well, there might be an add-on out there. Someone wants to say, can you provide a link to your library's website? Do you have any of these, like, live on your library's website right now? I think I might. Our library website is Seward, so S-E-W-A-R-D-E. It's wordlibrary.org. Get it typed in there and bring it up. And one thing that I do know that we have out there right now that's using Google Forms is this link right at the top here of Tell Us Your Favorite Adult Fiction Author. And so if people click on that, it takes them to, ta-da, a Google Form. Just a very quick one question form of what is your adult fiction author favorite? So there's one. I'm trying to remember if we have any others built into our website currently. We do also incorporate other types of forms. Like if someone signs up for a storytime right now, it's just a built-in form on our website. We're not using a Google Form for this. We'll probably transfer over eventually. But right now, we're just using a built-in one. But for summer, we did use Google Forms for all of our summer registrations. Yeah, I can imagine that's pretty, yeah. Yeah, it was so nice to just have it all flow into the spreadsheet automatically and not have to manually input, you know, 100, 300 kids. Okay. I'm just checking to see. Anything else? All right. Just a little after 11 o'clock, which is perfect because we started a little after 10. In case anybody have any last-minute, desperate questions you want to ask of Megan before we do wrap up this morning, get it typed into your GoToWebinar question section. If not, you can contact her at the Super Memorial Library, of course. Doesn't look like anything is coming in. So if you might have taken time to type, no. All right. Well, that's fine. I think we'll wrap it up officially then for today. Thank you so much, Megan. I'm glad we got to get you on the show to share this with everyone. As I said, we've been using them here. Just like you, sometimes we use our own. Sometimes we use Google Forms for things. It's really easy and quick to use, and we like it a lot. I hope a lot more people get, you know, that to get interacting with your community. What's your favorite author? What should be our next book club pick, you know? Yeah. Well, thank you so much for having me. What are you meeting today, you know, that kind of thing. Yeah. Sorry. All right. So I'm going to pull back, present your control to my screen here. Whoops. Did I do it? Yes, I did. All right. So that will wrap it up for this morning's show. Thank you very much, Megan. You're welcome. Thanks for having me. Of course. And thank you, everyone, for attending. The show has been recorded, and I'll pop over here to our Encubus Live website, and we'll be posted sometime in the next few days. I'll send an email out to everyone who did attend this morning and who pre-registered. This is our main site with all of our upcoming shows, but right beneath them is a link to our archives where you can see our previous ones. Our previous session was ALA Book Club Central, but this is where we will have the same kind of thing, the link to recording. I'll put it in the link. Also, I did open it up here as you were showing us, the link to the Google Forms page that you had set up for today. So if you want to go on there and take a look at things, I'll include that as well. As you see, I was answering the questions here. Did I? Oh, I did submit it. Okay. Did I answer all correctly? I think I did. What? Oh, it clicked it wrong. I know I said, oh, all of the above, so something got selected wrong on that one, but so I'll have that included as well when I do send out the recording to you so you have access to all of that here in our archives. So that will wrap up for today's show. I hope you join us for next week on our topic is Letters About Literature. This is a program, Read, Be Inspired Right Back. This is a program the Library of Congress is doing for quite a few years. I'm not exactly how it's shot long, where young people, grades 4 through 12, can write to an actual author living or dead and tell them why they like them, how they affected their lives, what they read by them, and if they then get them submitted here. So we're going to have a presentation all about that. Mary Jo Ryan, who's our Communications Coordinator here at the Library Commission, and then Lorraine Riedzel and Christine Walsh from two libraries here in Nebraska who are involved with us promoting this program within Nebraska will be online. We'll be here with us to talk about that. So please do sign up for that show or any of our other upcoming shows. We have set up here. I've got November, almost fully booked. I'm working on December dates as well and to see things added to the schedule as regular, on a regular schedule basis. Also, Encompass Live is on Facebook. I've got our Facebook page located over here. If you click on the Facebook link from our main page, I post here updates to shows when they're starting. Here's a reminder today to log in for today's show. When our recordings are available, I post on here. Here's the one from last week. So if you are a big Facebook user, please do give us a like over there and you'll keep notified up to date on what we're doing here on the show. Other than that, that wraps it up for this morning. Thank you very much, everyone, for attending and we will see you next time on Encompass Live. Bye-bye.