How to Make a QR Code for a Google Form

What do you need before you start?

You need 4 things ready, and no account to try the generator. A free account, or just your email, is asked for only at the download step.

• A finished Google Form, open in Google Forms on a computer or phone.
• The form’s public link from the Send dialog: it starts with forms.gle or ends in /viewform.
• One minute in the form’s Settings › Responses to check who is allowed to answer.
• A phone or a private browser window that is signed out of Google, for the test in step 6.

How do you make a Google Forms QR code step by step?

Follow these 7 steps in the Google Forms QR Code generator; the preview updates as you type. Each screenshot below is the real screen, filled in with a sample bakery’s details.

1. 1Copy the form link from the Send dialog

   Open the form in Google Forms and click Send in the top-right corner. Click the link icon, which is the second tab of the dialog, tick Shorten URL and click Copy. The clipboard now holds a link that starts with https://forms.gle/.

   The longer link that ends in /viewform works as well. Both open the form for respondents.

   Tip: Do not copy the address from the browser bar. That link ends in /edit, opens the editor and asks every scanner to request edit access.

2. 2Check that the form accepts responses from your audience

   Open Settings › Responses in the form. For a public poster or flyer, turn off “Restrict to users in your organisation”, otherwise the form asks every respondent to sign in with an account from your school or company. The one-response limit also forces a Google sign-in.

   Confirm the form is open. A closed form shows scanners “This form is no longer accepting responses”, and the code looks broken even though it scans.

3. 3Paste the link into the generator

   Open the Google Forms QR code generator and paste the link into Google Form link. The preview on the right redraws at once with a small form icon in the centre, and the Scannability bar under it reads “High”.

   The line under the buttons shows the size of the link in bytes. The sample in the screenshot is a 64-byte /viewform link.

   

4. 4Add a label that says what the form is for

   Open the Frame tab and choose Label below, Label above, Button, Speech bubble or Call to action. Type what the scanner gets, for example “Sign up for the workshop” or “2-minute quiz”. Frame colour and Text colour match the label to your poster.

   People scan a form code when they know how long the form takes. Put the time in the label or beside the code.

   

5. 5Download the code

   Click Download PNG for slides, documents and classroom printers, or SVG for a large poster. A dialog headed “Where should we send it?” takes your email once; click Download now and the file arrives straight away. The name looks like qrjiffy-google-forms-68JWKzp.png, and the last part is the ID of the code’s short link.

   

6. 6Test the code while signed out of Google

   Sign out of Google on your phone, or use a friend’s phone, and point the camera at the code. The form opens in Safari on an iPhone and in Chrome or the Google app on Android. If the editor or a sign-in page appears instead, go back to steps 1 and 2.

   Submit one answer and look for it in the form’s Responses tab. To inspect the file itself, upload it to the QR code scanner: it shows “Website link”, the domain qrjiffy.com and the full short link with an Open link button.

   Tip: Delete your test answer from the Responses tab before the real audience arrives, so the count starts at zero.

   

7. 7Print it, then reuse the same code for the next form

   Print the code at least 2 × 2 cm (0.8 in) on a handout and larger on a poster: one tenth of the reading distance is a reliable width. On a projected slide, let the code fill a third of the slide height.

   The code is saved in your dashboard under four tabs: Design, Destination, Analytics and Settings. Paste next term’s form link into Destination and the poster on the wall opens the new form. Analytics counts scans by day, device and country.

   

Open the Google Forms QR Code generatorFree. Nothing to install.

Does Google Forms have a built-in QR code?

Can you edit the Google Form after printing the QR code?

• Edit questions: change them in Google Forms. Nothing to do in QRJiffy.
• Close the form: Settings › Responses. Scanners then see “This form is no longer accepting responses”.
• Switch to a new form: paste its link into Destination in the dashboard.

Why does the QR code ask people to sign in to Google?

How do you see who scanned and who answered?

What mistakes stop a Google Forms QR code from working?

These 5 mistakes cause most failed Google Forms QR codes; each has a quick fix. Test the downloaded file with two different phones before you print anything.

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