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Stop people from submitting a Google Form more than once

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This article explains how to stop more than one person providing a response to a questionnaire that you have made using Google Forms. Previously I've shown how to use Google Forms to put a survey or questionnaire into your blog . Sometimes when you put a form into a blog-post, it is OK for people to respond more than once - and Forms even has an option to submit another entry immediately. But sometimes it's not. For example, if you are researching a particular topic, you probably want each person's opinion to count once, rather than having an enthusiastic person (effectively a human bot) enter their responses many times and so bias your results. Google Forms has now a feature which lets you require everyone who wants to submit results to your survey to be logged in to a Google account , and then only lets each Google Account submit the form once . How to stop people submitting a Google Form more than once Follow these steps to stop the same user entering a form multiple t...

Put a survey questionnaire in your blog, using Google Drive's forms tool

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This article shows how to use a Google Drive form to put a survey questionnaire into your blog or website. How to make simple questionnaire forms in Blogger Blogger's Poll gadget is a tool for putting a question onto your blog, which you visitors can answer. The gadget collects the answers for you, and shows the results. This is very easy to do: you just add a gadget in the usual way , and set up the question and answer options, and the expiry date (ie the date after which you won't accept any more answers). And with some template editing, you can arrange to put this gadget either above or below your blog-post gadget and only show it on certain posts or pages - so it's an easy way of running a very simple survey on your blog. But it has a lot of limits: you can only ask one question, answers must be from a pre-defined list of possible answers, there is no other way for you to collate the results, etc. Google Drive Forms are a better way to build a poll or survey There a...