Exploring the applications of google forms in the Pharmacy education during covid-19 Pandemic : An educator's report

Abstract

During COVID-19 pandemic in India, pharmacy colleges began to offer online teaching and learning as an alternative to traditional classroom teaching. This report provides more information about online pharmacy education teaching, learning and administration in terms of application of Google form (GFs). Google Forms is a free online tool that helps to generate data collecting forms. It may be used by students and instructors. In the study author had use this tool to develop surveys, quizzes, event registration forms as well as collaborative work. He had edited and shared the form with the other team mates and students. They can use GFs to assess their students at the beginning of the class and gauge pre-existing knowledge. Furthermore, GFs also used to give feedback to and receive feedback from students and parents. Similarly, educators and students used GFs to assess their own learning and set the learning goals as well as to collect data for their research projects. This study indicates that during lockdown due to COVID-19, Google form was found to be beneficial for professors and students for teaching and learning respectively in Pharmacy college. Overall the teachers and students favoured use of Google form over the traditional way of data collection because of its some advantages but it also has few disadvantages which need to be improved to suit it for the structure of pharmacy curriculum (PC) in online mode.