Our school has Google Apps for Education. With that, each student has an email account that they can use along with Google Docs, Calendar, and Sites. Most of this works the same as a regular private Google Account - except for something I came across today.
We want to run elections "online" for Student Council & Class Officer, Homecoming Queen & Prom Court, etc. Google Forms has the potential to make this happen for free, especially the Google Forms within Google Apps for Education.
When you create a form in Google Docs using your Google Apps account, there is an options to require respondents to sign in with their personalize Google Apps account login:
By having each student log in, you can be sure that only HS students are completing the form and that each student only votes one time. And as with regular Google Forms, you can turn forms on and off at specific times, require specific questions to be completed, and view all of the results in a nice spreadsheet.
I haven't used this approach with Google Apps yet (I did with my personal Google Account). Once I get it up and running, I'll share more insight.
5 comments:
I am a fellow educator looking into this app. for the same purpose. For next year we'd like to have students sign in via school gmail, but I'm still uncertain if that would limit voters' ability to vote more than once. Did you figure this quandary out? This year we're eliminating scantron voting by using student IDs and simply deleting duplicate entries, but I would like to know if anyone else has successfully used voting verification with school email.
I am a fellow educator looking into this app. for the same purpose. For next year we'd like to have students sign in via school gmail, but I'm still uncertain if that would limit voters' ability to vote more than once. Did you figure this quandary out? This year we're eliminating scantron voting by using student IDs and simply deleting duplicate entries, but I would like to know if anyone else has successfully used voting verification with school email.
I am a fellow educator looking into this app. for the same purpose. For next year we'd like to have students sign in via school gmail, but I'm still uncertain if that would limit voters' ability to vote more than once. Did you figure this quandary out? This year we're eliminating scantron voting by using student IDs and simply deleting duplicate entries, but I would like to know if anyone else has successfully used voting verification with school email.
Rachel, we have students sign in with the Google App account so each vote registers with their username. I then run a check for duplicates and delete. It works well and saves money/time.
Thanks! I think this is what we'll do next year. I figured out how to sort ID entries to show duplicates and the syntax for sorting text responses. Just out of curiosity, about how many students are at your school?
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