Publish & share your form with responders

To create online surveys and quizzes, use Google Forms. You can share your forms with collaborators or responders. Before responders can access your form, you need to publish it. When your form is ready to share, you can share it through email, social media, or embed on a website or blog.

Step 1: Check form settings

Default settings apply unless you customize them. Learn how to edit your form.

  1. Open a form in Google Forms.
  2. At the top, click Settings.
  3. Select the settings you want for your form.

Step 2: Publish the form

When you publish a form, responders can access it. If the form is unpublished, responders with the link can’t access it.
  1. At the top right, click Publish.
  2. To select who can respond to the form, click Manage.
  3. To give responder access to the users, add them to your form.
    1. Click Share.
    2. Optional: To notify the responders, click Notify these responders.
      • You can also include a message.
    3. Click Publish or Publish and notify.
  4. Optional: Under “General access,” you can give access to anyone with a link or to target audiences.
  5. Click Done and then Publish.
    • Once your form is published, at the top right, it shows “Published.”
    • To change publishing options, click Published.

Share your form with responders

  1. Open a form in Google Forms.
  2. To share your form with responders, click Share Add approver .
  3. Optional: Under “General access,” you can give access to anyone with a link or target audiences.
  4. Enter the names of the people or groups.
  5. To select the level of access, next to the responder names, click Down arrow Down arrow and then Responder.
    • Optional: To select a date to remove access to the form:
      1. Click Add expiration.
      2. In the calendar, select a date.
      3. Click Done.
    • Optional: To remove expiration, click Edit expiration edit and then Remove expiration.
  6. If the form is published, an email notification will be shared when you send the form.
    • Optional: For published forms, you can add a message to your email notification.
    • Optional: If you don’t want to send a notification, uncheck the box next to “Notify People.”
  7. Click Send.

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