Copy a Google Form
If you have created a Google Form it can be tricky to allow others to make a copy of your Google Form. If you have created a Google Form to collect attendance, as a daily warm up or a formative assessment you may want to share what you made with another teacher. Most likely you do not want other teachers data mixed in with your data. You want the teachers to copy your Forms not use your Forms.
In the edit screen of the Google Form there is no option to give view only access. Click on the File menu and choose “Add collaborators…”
Sharing a Google Form from the edit screen allows the collaborators to edit. Notice there is no option to give view only access.
Google Sheets
Instead of trying to to share the edit screen of the Google Form, instead share the spreadsheet.
View Responses
Click on “View responses” in the toolbar of the Google Form edit screen.. This will take you to the spreadsheet.
Make a Copy
Assuming you do not want other teachers to view and copy your data in your spreadsheet I recommend you use the File menu to make a copy of the spreadsheet. Delete all of the response data out of the spreadsheet. This copy is your template to share the Google Form.
If you change the end of the spreadsheet URL from /edit to /copy the URL will prompt someone to make a copy of the spreadsheet.
Example:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1aQAhrOxnJy9-icnNPiXkVRdp4RrvbrM5zu0yyX9LMHk/edit#gid=763051896
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1aQAhrOxnJy9-icnNPiXkVRdp4RrvbrM5zu0yyX9LMHk/copy
Use this link to share the Google Form with other teachers.
Form Menu
When other teachers make a copy of your spreadsheet the Form is copied with it. In the spreadsheet the teacher can go to the Form menu to “Edit form” or “Go to live form.”
Как скопировать гугл форму в другую гугл форму
- Ігор Білецький
- 10.10.2021
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В данной статье мы рассмотрим вопрос о том, как создать копию Google Формы.
Для примера возьмем форму добавления нового клиента, которая входит в пакет CRM Клиент.
Открываем полученную ссылку на папку с материалами и находим нужную форму.
Когда форма открылась, необходимо кликнуть на значок дополнительно (в правом верхнем углу три вертикальные точки) и выбрать пункт «Создать копию»)
В открывшемся окне вводим название нашей формы (при необходимости) и выбираем место на вашем гугл диске, где будет храниться ваша гугл форма.
После клика на «Ок» ваша форма успешно скопирована
Для того, чтобы данные из формы попадали в вашу таблицу, необходимо связать форму с таблицей.
How To Copy A Google Form
Duplicate your own or someone else's Google Form in just a few steps! Here's how.
Google Forms are great, and if you’ve ever created a perfect digital form with the ideal color scheme and text that can be easily tweaked for your next project, then we know you wouldn’t want to start the form creation process from scratch again.
Or perhaps you’ve seen someone else’s form and know that you could make it work for your needs with a few minor edits.
Keep reading this tutorial and learn how you can turn one master form into a multitude of unique form submissions.
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How To Create A Copy Of Your Form ��
Creating a duplicate form is relatively simple. To get started:
- Open your desired form from your Google Drive account or type forms.google.com into your web browser to open the tool.
- Click on the more icon (3-vertical dots icon), found at the top right-hand side of your screen.
- Select make a copy.
- Choose a new name for the form. (It can’t be the same as the original file.)
- Click on the dropdown menu under folderand select where the new form will be saved.
- Hit the blue make a copy button.
7. Make the relevant edits so that the new form is different from the original form.
8. Change all response and form settings and share your form link with your desired respondents or enter their email addresses and send it out.
How To Duplicate Someone Else’s Form ��
Duplicating forms that belong to someone else is a bit trickier and, if done without getting proper permissions, can be illegal.
If you want to use someone else’s form, especially if you want to use the entire form without edits, then it’s crucial you reach out to the form creator. If they agree, there are two ways they can share the source file with you.
1. Open up the Google Forms tool.
2. Go to the template gallery. (You should have two)
3. Select your institution’s template gallery, choose submit template and choose the relevant form.
1. Get the form creator to open their original form and make a copy using the steps above.
2. On the new form, click on the more icon.
3. Choose add collaborators.
4. Enter the email address of the person who wants the form.
5. Click on the text that reads editor next to the newly added email address and change it to transfer ownership.
Once you’ve accepted the transfer of ownership, you can remove access from the original form owner.
What we think
Google Forms offerings are rudimentary at best, so we don’t see the point in going through so much trouble to copy someone else’s form. Chances are you can duplicate everything on your own after looking at the form once (there aren’t many editing options).
If you want to create truly unique forms, we recommend using a core form builder like Jotform. It comes with over 10 000 pre-made templates, so you don’t have to worry about copying anyone else’s form. You can just create your unique forms and surveys.
E.g. building a sign-up page that allows users to log in with their Google account, you should consider a tool like Feathery.
Feathery is a comprehensive form-building tool that allows you to create complex, logic-driven forms, integrate with various apps, and customize your form design extensively.
FAQ About Copying Google Forms ��♂️
How do you use other people’s Google Forms?
Ask the form creator to add you as a collaborator, or if the form owner belongs to your organizational Google workspace, they can turn their form into a template for you.
Can you duplicate a form?
Duplication of forms can be done by going to the three vertical dots icon on your Google form and selecting «make a copy.»
How to force a copy of a Google form?
Google Forms has changed its privacy settings, and this option is not available.
Conclusion ��
Making a copy of your own Google form is pretty straightforward; however, anything more requires time and steps that could frustrate you.
Google Forms is good enough for basic form building, but if you want to create a more attractive form in minutes, not to mention have access to tons of form design options, we’d highly recommend going with something like Jotform or Feathery.
Want to learn more Google Forms hacks? Check out the rest of our tutorials.
How to Make a Copy of a Google Form [2 Methods]
Google Form is a very efficient way to gather information. Sometimes, we need several form for different purposes but overall structure is the same. We can copy one of our old forms and with little bit of editing, form can be used for our new purpose. In this article, we will demonstrate how to make a copy of a Google Form.
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Why do make a copy of a Google Form?
In professional environments, we may be asked to create a copy of a Google Form so that we can leave aside the original form intact and work on the new copy of the form. This way, we can preserve the form on one hand and edit the copy freely on the other hand. This method provides a secure way of creating new form out of the previous.
Also, it is possible that an organization takes a similar survey every few months, e.g. report, rating, reviews, etc. So, rather than making new survey each time, it is better to use the previous one. But the record must be kept intact and hence the original survey cannot be altered. So, it is better to make a copy of the previous survey and edit that copy for taking future surveys.
There may also be other reasons for copying a survey. In this article, we will demonstrate how to make a copy of a Google Form.
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How to Make a Copy of a Google Form
We will first create a Google Form in order to demonstrate how to make a copy of a Google Forms. Let us demonstrate the easy and step by step procedure below:
Create a Google Form
Let us create a new Google Form in order to demonstrate how to make a copy of it. Follow the steps below for the making a new Google Form.
Step 1: Go to “Google Forms” website.
Click here to go to Google Forms website
By clicking on the above link, you can go to Google Forms website.
Step 2: Click on “Go to forms”.
There are two buttons for going to Google Forms. You can click either of the two.
There are multiple templates already available for making the forms on the website as shown below:
If you want to create a Google Form from the scratch, click on “blank” template as:
This way, Google Forms will give you a completely blank form that you can customize at will.
Below, in Blank form, you can label your form name and add some description to your form according to your requirements.
Customize your Google Form
Now that the form is created, customize it as per requirements. Add form title, name and description. Also, add sections or questions to the form as per your requirements. You may also add images, audio or attachments as per requirements. Once the form is made, you can now make a copy of it.
In order to learn more about how to customize a Google Form, you can refer to our article, How to make a Google Form.
It is also possible that you are taking the same survey for different regions as per your company’s instructions. Now, you have made the survey once, but you need an identical one for another region as well.
Method 1: Make copy of a Google Form through “more” options
Now that we are done with customizing out a Google Form, let us move on to demonstrate how to make copy of it.
Step 1: Open the Google Form that you wish to make a copy of.
In our case, we recently created our form, so the form is already open.
Step 2: Click on the “more” icon on top right corner of the form.
Making copy or duplicating Google Form is a very easy task. Click on “more” or “Three-dots” button on top right corner as shown in the picture below:
A menu with several options will appear as below:
Step 3: Choose the option “Make a copy”.
You can see “Make a copy” from the dropdown. Click on it as:
Step 4: Fill in the prompt details.
Once you click on “Make a Copy”, Google Forms will prompt as:
Now, there are several things that we may change before making the copy. Let’s have a look at it.
Change the name of the Google Form (copy)
Let’s change name of the duplicated form by clicking on it and typing the new name.
Let’s name it, “French Football Awards” as:
Change the folder (location) of duplicate form
Now, let’s change the “Folder”. Folder means location of the file in your Google Drive.
Click on “Folder” and now you can choose where you want to save your duplicated form.
Click “Select” when you’ve finalized the folder location where you want to save the duplicated file.
Share it with the same people
There is a checkbox that says, “Share it with the same people”. Check it if you want to share the duplicated form with same people that you’ve shared original form with, otherwise leave the checkbox unchecked.
After you’re done with all these settings, click on “Make a copy” to finalize the process.
A duplicated form will be generated in a new tab with new name that we labeled. Also, the origin is saved to the folder location we chose earlier.
Method 2: Duplicate Google Form through Google Drive
Follow the steps below:
Step 1: Go to Google Drive website.
For copying a Google Form using Google Drive, first of all, go to Google Drive’s website. Click “Here” to go to website directly.
Click on “Go to Drive”. There are two buttons for going to drive, you can use either of them.
Step 2: Search for the Google Form that you want to duplicate.
You can search for the form that you want to duplicate in the search tab as shown below:
Let’s search for “Football Ballon d’Or” which is our original form. Search returned us with three results including our original form.
Step 3: Right click on the form that you want to duplicate.
Step 4: Choose the option from the dropdown menu, “Make a copy” as shown below:
Clicking on “make a copy” will automatically create a duplicate form with name, “Copy of the Original form name” as:
Now, you may also click on “Show file location” button which will take your to the form or “Undo” button to cancel this duplication process.
Notes
- You must have access rights over the specific Google Form in order to make its copy.
- Duplicate Google Form, by default, has the form name as “Copy of OriginalFormName”. Later, you can change it as per requirements.
- You can change the location of the Google Form copy, this way, Google Form will be made with the specified location.
- Once a copy is made, changes can be made to it. Any change in the duplicate form will be preserved to it and original form remains intact.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who can make copy of the Google Form?
Anyone with access rights over the Google Form can make its copy.
How can I make a copy of a Google Form?
You may make copy of a Google Form using “more” options button or by using Google Drive. Both of the methods are discussed above in details.
Does changes on the duplicate form change original form as well?
No, one a duplicate form is created, it acts as a new form. Any changes to the new form remain on the new form and original form remains intact.
Conclusion
In this article, we discussed that we may be required to make a copy of a Google Form for various reasons. The reason includes backing up and saving the original copy for later use, making duplicate for creating an identical form, making copy for releasing the same form in multiple locations and taking the reviews independently. There are various methods using which we can make copy or a Google Form. The 2 of them are described above.