How to Make a QR Code for a Google Form (Free)
Want a QR code for a Google Form? Here's how to make one in Linkly: copy the responder link, paste it in, and print the QR code on a sign. Nobody has to type a ninety character URL, and when next term's form is a new one you point the same QR code at it instead of reprinting.
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The full spoken transcript, split by chapter.
- 0:00Why nobody types the link
- You've made the form. Now you need people to actually fill it in. A QR code on a sign does that job, and it takes about a minute. Here's the sign. Everything on it is readable except the bit that matters, because a Google Form link is ninety odd characters of nonsense. Nobody standing in a corridor is typing that. A QR code, though, they'll scan without thinking about it. So grab the form link first.
- 0:22Get the form link, make the QR code
- Open the form, hit the link button up top, and copy. That's the responder link, the one people fill in. Paste it into Linkly. Look at the length of that thing. Give it a short ending instead, and a name so you can find it again when next term comes round, then save. Short link on the left, QR code on the right, already drawn. That's it, honestly. Download the PNG and put it on the sign. Here's the phone doing what your respondent does. Scan the QR code, straight into the form. No app, no typing, and no QR generator involved anywhere along the way.
- 0:56Swap the form, keep the sign
- Now the bit the free generators can't do. Say next term's form is a new one. You open the link, paste the new form in, and save. The QR code on the wall stays exactly as it is, and it starts pointing at the new form. And because it runs through a link, you
- 1:09Every scan is counted
- can see how many people scanned the QR code and when. Handy when you're deciding whether the sign is in the right spot, or whether anyone reads the noticeboard at all. It's free to start, and everything you need is just below this video.
