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.

Limit users to one response

1. Open a form in Google Forms.
2. At the top of the form, click Settings.
3. Next to “Responses,” click the Down arrow .
4. Turn on Limit to 1 response.

Tip: To access and fill out the form, users must sign in to their Google Account. Their usernames won't be recorded unless you turn on the “Responses” setting to collect email addresses.

Allow people to edit responses

You can choose whether someone can edit a response they’ve already submitted.

1. Open a form in Google Forms.
2. At the top of the form, click Settings.
3. Next to “Responses,” click the Down arrow .
4. Turn on Allow response editing.

Show a summary of responses

Important: After someone fills out your form, they get a link to the results. Response summaries show full text responses or charts for each question and are visible to anyone who can respond to the form.

1. Open a form in Google Forms.
2. At the top of the form, click Settings.
3. Next to “Presentation,” click the Down arrow .
4. Turn on View results summary. A summary of results is shared with respondents.

Change confirmation message

You can customize the message people get after they submit the form.

1. Open a form in Google Forms.
2. At the top of the form, click Settings.
3. Next to “Presentation,” click the Down arrow .
4. Next to "Confirmation message," click Edit.
5. Enter your message.
6. Click Save.

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 If the form is unpublished, responders with the link can’t access it.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 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 .
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 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 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.

Email a form

To automatically send the form in an email notification when you share a form, click the box next to “Notify People.” If you notify responders when you publish the form, the email sent to them includes the form.

Tip: You can’t embed a form in an email when it contains:

• File upload question
• Rating question
• Image in a question or an option
• Secured quiz

Get a link to a form

To get the form link for responders, you can either:

• At the top right, click Preview Copy responder link.
• Once you publish the form, click Published Copy responder link.
• At the top right, click Share Copy responder link.

Tip: You can copy a short link once you publish the form:

1. Click the box next to “Shorten URL.”
2. Click Copy.

Send a form with pre-filled answers

You can send respondents a form with some fields already filled in.

1. Open a form in Google Forms.
2. In the top right, click More .
3. Select Pre-fill form.
4. Fill in any answer fields you want to pre-populate.
5. Click Get link.
6. To send the pre-populated form to respondents, copy and send the link at the top.

Embed a form on a website or blog

To embed a form on a website or blog:

1. Open a form in Google Forms.
2. At the top right, click More menu .
3. Select Embed HTML .
4. To copy the HTML that shows, click Copy.
5. Paste the HTML into your website or blog.