One of the harder things to verify with a listening activity is whether students actually did it. Google Forms solves this by collecting every submission in one place, so you can see exactly who participated, what they answered, and how well they did — all without needing to collect papers or check in individually.

Why use this tool?

Having students enter both their real name and a nickname on the form serves a specific purpose: you can identify who submitted what, while going over the results with the class using only the nickname, keeping individual performance private from classmates. Results collect automatically into a linked spreadsheet, where you can see each student's answers, hide the name column when reviewing as a class, and unhide it later for your own review.

You don't have to make the quiz self-grading. Sometimes it's useful to collect responses without letting students see their score immediately, so you're the only one reviewing results — for example, to gauge whether a listening passage was too easy or too hard, or to see which questions caused the most trouble across the group. A self-grading version is also an option, and it comes with a built-in benefit: once submitted, a student's answers are locked in, so there's no changing an answer after seeing it was wrong.

Access is easy too — right-click the form to generate a QR code, so students can jump straight to it on their phones without typing a link.

How to use it

1. Build your form. Add an input field for the student's name and nickname, then add your listening comprehension questions as multiple choice.
2. Set it up as a quiz (optional). In Settings, mark it as a quiz to mark correct answers and assign point values if you want it to be gradable.
3. Generate a QR code for quick access. Right-click the form page in Chrome to create a QR code students can scan to open it directly.
4. Have students listen and respond. Play the audio (or share the link to it separately), and have students answer either at their own pace or question by question as a class.
5. Review the results spreadsheet. Open the linked spreadsheet to see every submission, including which questions were missed and by whom.
6. Go over results with the class using nicknames. Hide the name column before presenting so individual identities stay private, while you retain the full data for your own records.

This is a useful complement to a self-grading multiple choice quiz built the same way — the key difference here is the focus on confirming participation and reviewing results as a group, rather than just scoring individual students.