FORMS FORMS FORMS

I can't begin to describe how much I love Google Forms.  (If it didn't ONLY go into an ugly spreadsheet, I'd say they were "sublime".  As it is, I go for "heavenly".)

What do I use them for?

At home:

• addresses
• shopping
• christmas list for family
• fun activities for people to take part in -- like a multi-family sledding trip (in Japanese, no less!)

At school (don't get me started!):

• rubrics
• lesson plans
• small group lessons
• *new* a behavior feedback form that kids fill out themselves and it emails to family and administration
• group work among teachers on my team

What was holding me back was the output.  It's so UGLY and CLUNKY.  You get this gorgeous form to fill out, you work hard to ask nice questions, then you have people submit and... all you get is a huge spreadsheet with everything turned into a row of information.  I get it, sometimes that's important and even functional.  But not always!  I explored this topic recently and came upon a great fix: the script called Autocrat.  There may be plenty of others out there, but this one was created for educators and has an amazingly informative tutorial.  I had no problem using it, so I highly recommend checking it out.  I was able to create a lesson plan template that I merged with a spreadsheet I populated by a form.  Sounds complicated?  Well, it worked and looked gorgeous!  My new love of spreadsheets(don't get me started) plus my former love of Google forms?  As they say in Japan, Love-love!  (But in a Japanese accent it's rabu-rabu, of course!)

Do you use Google Forms?  What functionality are you surprised is missing, and did you find a workaround?