Schoology offers a quality platform for classroom assessments, but no platform for collecting information that isn’t intended to be an assessment. In that situation, Google Forms is a great option. However, using a link and forcing students to go “out” of Schoology can be inconvenient and lead to some internet-wandering. So, let’s embed the Google From right into Schoology! Forms can be embedded in pages as well as assignments.
This is beneficial in a number of other situations:
- Schoology assessments can’t differentiate based on answers (i.e., seeing remedial content after getting a question wrong), but Forms can.
- If the data coming from the questions is actually going to someone else (i.e., your school guidance counselor), you’d be able to share the Google Forms results easily with them.
- If you’re looking to trigger some action (i.e., mail merge) with the responses, the Add-Ons offered in Google Sheets would work.
- If you’re looking to use the functionality offered by Google Forms Add-Ons like FormRanger and FormLimiter.
- If you need to use formulas or create data representations, Google Sheets are ideal.
Option 1: Add as an External Tool
This option requires the least steps, but has one major drawback – you can’t include any other text or images on the Schoology “page” – just the content from the form. (If you need to include other stuff, check out Option 2, below).
Check out the GIF below, followed by step-by-step instructions, to see how to do this:

Option 2: Embed the Form into a Page, Assignment or Discussion
This option is preferable if you’d like to add some text or other content on the same “screen” as the form.
Check out the GIF below, followed by step-by-step instructions, to see how to do this:

- Create your Google Form.
- Click the Send (paper airplane) button.
- Select the <> Embed option.
- Modify the dimensions, if you’d like. You can do that in Schoology later as well.
- Click on the embed code.
- Click Copy.
- Go to your class Materials page in Schoology.
- Click Add Materials.
- Click Add Page (or whatever option you’re choosing).
- Click the button on the right, above the text box, with the two dots. It’s the Switch to HTML View button. (If you’re in an Assignment, you may have to click a > button to get to the expanded view)
- Paste the embed code.
- Click Create and you’re done!
- If you switch back to the Standard View, you can also enter other content (text, pictures, etc.) above or below the Google Form.