One of the hardest parts about distance learning is not being able to see and talk with our students on a regular basis. Even if you are doing video conferences, it is hard to know how students are doing and if they need help. One option is to have daily check-ins using Google Forms. This post shares free daily check in google forms for distance learning and some tips for how to use them.
Note: The PDF now includes links to Weekly Check-Ins as well!
About the Daily Check-In Google Forms
These daily check-in Google Forms are one way to check in your with students on a daily basis. The responses can also be shared with special education or any support staff who serve the students.
I have included two check-in forms for you: one for the beginning of the day and one for the end of the day. You can send both of the forms or choose to only send one.
Beginning of the Day Check-In Form
This form is designed to check in with the students before they begin their assignments (but after they locate them).
The form asks the following questions:
- How are you feeling today?
- Do you have anything to tell me? This can be about school or life.
- Were you able to find all of your work for today?
- Do you need any help getting started with your assignments?
- What questions do you have about your assignments?
End of the Day Check-In Form
This form is designed to check in with the students as they finish their learning for the day.
The form asks the following questions:
- How are you feeling now?
- How did you to do today?
- How do you feel about your assignments today? (This is a linear scale with “I didn’t understand anything” at one end and “I understood everything” at the other end.)
- Do you have anything to tell me? This can be about school or life.
Note: There are now links to Weekly Check-Ins included in the PDF download as well!
Modifying the Check-In Forms
After you copy the forms to your drive, you may go in and modify any of the questions and/or add new questions. These screenshots are also included in the free download.
Assigning the Check-In Forms
When assigning the forms, I recommend you make a new copy for each week (you can keep the responses organized using the spreadsheet that Google Forms generates).
Another way to send the Check-In Forms to your students is to link them via a Google Slides Template. Here is an example template. The link to copy this template can be found in the section titled Get the Free Daily Check-In Google Forms and Slide Template Here.
Viewing the Responses
You can easily view the responses by generating a spreadsheet. The spreadsheet is automatically sorted by date and time so you can keep your responses organized. You can also sort the responses alphabetically by student name.
***Get the Free Daily Check-In Google Forms and Slide Template Here
Note: make sure you copy the forms to your drive. If you manipulate the link, you will be compromising your students’ data. YOU MUST COPY THE FORM TO YOUR DRIVE AND CREATE A NEW FORM THAT IS ONLY ACCESSIBLE BY YOU AND YOUR STUDENTS!
Note: There are now links to Weekly Check-Ins included in the PDF download as well!
More Digital Distance Learning Resources
Blog Posts and Free Guides
How to Create Google Form Assignments
Viewing and Analyzing Responses in Google Forms
How to Have Students Show Their Math Work Digitally – Free Student Google Slides Guide
Tips for Distance Learning Planning
Digital Learning Activities
Google Form – Reading Activities
Google Slides – Math Activities
4th Grade Math Test Prep Review
5th Grade Math Test Prep Review
4th Grade Math Differentiated Skill Sheets
5th Grade Math Differentiated Skill Sheets
Math Choice Boards (Grades 3-5 Available)
5th Grade Find the Error Math Tasks
Google Slides – Literacy Activities
Color Coding Text Evidence Printables
Reading Intervention Passages with Read Aloud Audio
4th & 5th Grade Reading Flipbooks
Theme Activities – Printable and Digital Versions
Thank you!!! You have done it again. I created my own forms for before break, but will definitely implement these after. Wonderfully organized and will be able to modify easily when needed.
Thank you!
I honestly just want to say THANK YOU for all that you do for all educators. You have truly made my life much easier with the freebies and ease of using your products during these difficult times. You are very appreciated!!!!
Thank you so Much!! You are truly a blessing
Wow! What a great freebie! The creator of this form is simply amazing! This form has been shared in our school district and I am so happy to find out where it came from! Thank You!
Hey Julie!! I am using all of her things, too, and constantly sharing them with the team! All of these freebies are so appreciated! THANK YOU!!!!!
THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!
Your new distance learning version of your reading notebook is fantastic! I already own this, and am happy to have this new version of the resource!
And this daily check-in is invaluable! Thanks so much! Your products are THE best.
Suzy Daley
Thank you!!! It seems so interesting and helpful!! We will implement these may be later on.
Thank you for the new resources for distence learning.
Thank you 🤘
Your check in form for the beginning of the week was awesome. THANKS!!
I love your daily check in forms. Is there any way you could modify the form for me? I am looking to take away silly and add I feel lonely and I need to talk 1:1.
Shannon, if you print off her “How to Copy and Rename the Check-In Google Forms” information, it shows you how to modify the questions.
I have the form working in Canvas. However, in Student View, my students can see the editing tools and responses tab. How do I change this?
Hi Shannon, I wish I had time to make these modifications but I really don’t. Like Suzy mentioned, I did include instructions to edit the forms in the PDF. Hope those work for you!
Hi Jennifer,
Thank you so much for this resource! My students are loving the morning and afternoon check-ins. I was wondering if you have any tips for responding individually to my students as they answer the ‘do you have anything to tell me?’ question. We are using Google Classroom as our online platform.
TIA
Thank you for this resource. Is there a way to modify the texts of the banner and images. I am a Bilingual Spanish Teacher and only use Spanish with my class.
Thanks for this, my staff and I were wondering how to get kids to check in, this will help soooooo much. Really appreciate you sharing
Funtastic!
Hi!!
For the daily check in, how does that work from one day to the next? If I shared the link today and have responses, do I reset it somehow to share again tomorrow?
Thanks!!
First of all, I absolutely LOVE this! I found it at midnight last night and had to add it to my Google Classroom so they could complete it today! I’m one of those “have to start on Monday” kind of people! I am having difficulty seeing their responses. Could you please send me the directions in an email? It is a little hard for me to see them on this webpage for some reason! Thank you so much for all of your hard work!
Just sent you an email. 🙂
I love the Daily Check-In Forms! I am using Seesaw for posting assignments and am having a difficult time posting/assigning these forms to Seesaw. I can download them into Seesaw, but the links don’t work. Any suggestions?
Thank you!
I would love an answer to this too.
Hi Katrina, I am not too familiar with Seesaw but I found this video that may help: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWT1L5N_QSc
Hi Jodi, I am not too familiar with Seesaw but I found this video that may help: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWT1L5N_QSc
Jennifer, you are just awesome!! Thank you so much for sharing all of your wonderful creations. Teachers appreciate you 🙂
I’m not seeing how to generate a spreadsheet with the responses. Could you help me with that?
Hi Tina, have you had a chance to look at pages 5 and 6 of the PDF? It includes steps and screenshots to help with this.
I cannot tell how much appreciate all you are doing for teachers in general but especially during this crazy time. You are making this transition into the unknown much more manageable. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!
Thank you! I am having a difficult time with linking the daily check-in to the Good Morning slide.
Yes! Having this same issue 🙁 it makes it look “ugly” and not very functional on the students end!! What am I a doing wrong?!? I followed all the directions and cant seem to fix the ugliness 🙁
Love love love!!!! Thank you Jennifer
These are amazing. Thank you! Is it ok to share these with other teachers from my Google Driveor do you prefer that they get them directly from your blog? Of course, I would give you the credit.
Can you please share how you set up the form so it forced us to make a copy in order to access it? I was trying to share some forms this way with other librarians and didn’t see the option to share as view only forcing the ‘make a copy’ option. I would love to know how you did it!
Thanks!
Thank you, great resource during this time!
When I go to make a copy of the google documents it says resource unavailable. I think the link is broken. Help please! This is an awesome resource I can’t wait to use, thank you for it!
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HI Jennifer — Thank you so much. These are great. One question. In order to use in the “Slide” are you making a copy for each day then linking that to the respective day?
Mike
Thank you! So cool and helpful! I love that you made this a free opportunity for other teachers to use. Thank you so much!
THANK YOU! These are fantastic resources as we are on the fast-track to learning at home and teaching online. I can’t thank you enough.
I can not figure out how to see students responses? For some, it says they turned it in, but there is nothing attached….How do I fix this?
Hu
Wow! Thanks so much. These will be so helpful to have as a daily check in. I am just learning how to navigate Google. It really can be quite overwhelming and you have narrowed the learning curve.
Thank you so much for the editable check-in and check-out forms. These are perfect for some of my students.
Hi Jennifer,
Thank you so much for this resource! My students are loving the morning and afternoon check-ins. I was wondering if you have any tips for responding individually to my students as they answer the ‘do you have anything to tell me?’ question. We are using Google Classroom as our online platform.
TIA
Hi Cherie, there is no way to respond through google forms. But I am working on getting a post up to share ways to “meet” or touch in with students individual through Google Hangouts (and not just video).
Hoping to get the same answer 🙂
Thank you for this great resource!!
I do not know where to click to access your check-in/check-out forms? They look great and we would like to adapt them for our use. Thanks!!!
Hi Marissa,look for the section titled: ***Get the Free Daily Check-In Google Forms and Slide Template Here
Hi! I love the idea of a daily check-in form, but I can not access the form itself. I tried to create a log in for your digital library, and it came back with an error.
Hi Sam, this is not in the freebie library. It is a direct download on my page. Look for the section titled: ***Get the Free Daily Check-In Google Forms and Slide Template Here
Is there a link missing on ***Get the Free Daily Check-In Google Forms and Slide Template Here? I cannot get anything to show up when I hover. Thank you!!
THANK YOU FOR THESE AWESOME FORMS. I have had a huge response to them this week by my kiddos. BTW, Where did you find the cute emojis? Would love to add different ones if they are available somewhere!
Thank you for all that you are doing to help teachers with distance learning. You are the best!
Hi Kelly,
I had the same question about the emjois. By any chance, did you find them? I have been looking and looking.
No I ended up using my Bitmoji character and the kids loved it!!
Hi! I love the idea and am thinking about how to incorporate it. Just wondering how you made your backgrounds… Did you just lock all the images and text boxes? I teach in French and would like to make a version that I can provide all instructions in French. Thanks!!!
This is amazing! Thank you for sharing. Do you happen to have a version that says “End of Week Check In” and “How did your week go?”. With all the other work I’m pushing out, I don’t think I would have time to do this daily, but I would love to do it weekly!
I love this idea! I will see about making a modified version for this purpose sometime this week. I will comment back on here when I get it added.
I was looking to do the same thing…change to a weekly form. I have edited everything within the form itself to reflect weekly, but can not seem to change the banner at the top. I am pretty tech savy, but think it must be a locked image. I would love to have a weekly version also, if possible.
Hi Charelette, I just added Weekly Check-Ins! Re-download the PDF to grab copies of those forms!
Hi Jen, I just added Weekly Check-Ins! Re-download the PDF to grab copies of those forms!
THANKYOU!!! This is a great resource and it was easy to follow your instructions. I used it with my Stage 1 class as we have started online learning now as well. I edited your ‘End of Day Check-In’ to an ‘End of Week Check-In’ as I don’t want to do this daily but still want the students feedback on tasks set for the week.
Do you have resources for younger (6 – 8 year olds) students?
Hi Sarah, I just added Weekly Check-Ins! Re-download the PDF to grab copies of those forms! And I only create resources for grades 3-5. Thanks for asking!
Thank you so much! I really appreciate you sharing these things and helping take the stress off my shoulders. So many amazing ideas!! Thank you!
HI,
I love the daily check in. Are we able to modify the slide to make it a weekly check in?
Jennifer, You are AWESOME! I needed this training on how to make, use, and insert Google forms. Thank you so much for taking your time to make this for all of us. Thank you for giving to all of us freely. May you be blessed richly for your generosity. 🙂
Thank you so much for making this free! I am responsible for checking in with 37 students every day and this will save me a ton of time!
THANK YOU VERY MUCH!
THANK YOU SO MUCH for this!!!!
Since I teach at a dual language school, another teacher is creating a Spanish version of the check in and check out forms for us. Are you able to make the main slides fully editable so that we can create a Spanish version of those as well?
Thank you again.
These are awesome! Thank you so much for sharing!!
This is awesome! Thank you so much for sharing your gift and resources. I have a non form question, what font did you use for your headers? I’m a font junkie and computer teacher. I love it!!
I am having a difficult time trying to link the morning check-in forms to the weekly check-in in google slides. can you please advise on how to do this?
Thanks
Yes : ( Im having the same issue and cant seem to find the fix to the problem !
I really appreciate all the resources throughout your entire site. I plan on using your Check-in Google forms tomorrow!!
I do have a question. I would love to add, “I feel anxious.” to the check-in, but I can’t find the cute little emojis that you made on line. I have a few students this year that have anxiety on a regular day let alone now! Are those yours or did they come from Google?
Again, thank you for everything.
I absolutely love these slides and can not wait to use them. However, I am new to google classroom. I wanted to use the google slides with the days of the week. Am I able to use the same link each day? Or do I need to make a copy for each day and link it? I am unsure if I can use the same form daily. #newbie #help!
Thank you so much!! I love and appreciate this so much. Could you please tell me where you got your images for How you are feeling? I would like to change a few fir the next week.
Thank you again so much!
Hi I just was wondering if you were aware that this site is basically using your page – https://eduplaceonline.com/free-daily-check-in-google-forms-for-distance-learning/
Did you approve this post?
If not just wanted to let you know and be aware of it.
Yes! Having this same issue 🙁 it makes it look “ugly” and not very functional on the students end!! What am I a doing wrong?!? I followed all the directions and cant seem to fix the ugliness 🙁
Thank you so much! This is just what I was looking for and I appreciate your willingness to share your hard work!
Hi Jennifer!! Thank you so much for sharing your hard work and making our lives just a little easier. I have a question about sharing your google form on the Monday-Friday slide. I linked the form to each text box and now I am uploading the slide into Google Classroom. At that point, do I make a copy for each student? How do you suggest I assign it? THANK YOU!!!
Hi there,
Thank you for these great resources!
I have assigned it to my class, but I am not sure how to view their responses / generate a spreadsheet.
Can you please help me with that. Thanks!
Hello Jennifer!
Thank you so much for the amazing daily check-in forms! I teach Kindergarten and the “emoji’s” are perfect for them to express how they are feeling. I have simplified the questions for them as well to make it easier for them, or parents, to respond. I have a question about the best way to respond, what application or format would you, or anyone else, recommend to reply to comments or acknowledge their feelings?
Thank you for these AWESOME resources. My colleague and I will be using the AM/PM check-in forms for our students before the start their online work with Google Classroom. Thank you for the great resources, as usual I love it all. I had a question and thought I’d ask you about it. I created a Google Form checklist for kids to keep track of their completed online assignments but when they submit the form they will have to restart the form to add in new assignments but their previous info. wont show. Is there anyway I can use this Google Form and have kids’ responses saved on the form so when they go back to add newly completely work they can see the assignments they have already completed? Like a proper checklist? Is this possible with Google Forms? If not, do you have any suggestions on how I could help students keep track of their online assignments (possible, an easy solution)?
Bless you for sharing this! What a wonderful resource! I love the confidentiality it gives students my students that were too shy or uncomfortable sharing on our forum or video conferences.
This is AMAZING! Thank you so much for making this and for allowing it to be a free download. As a mom I am battling to juggle things during this time. Setting up a check-in form has been on my “to-do” list, but I just haven’t got there yet -so this is a HuGe time saver! My students are going to love it too!
Thank you for this wonderful resource. Can’t wait to use! 🙂
We’re on our very last week of distance learning, but with the possibility of the fall being very much the same, I am planning on using this right away. One question: Do you simply keep the same spread sheet throughout? Or do you make a new copy of the form for every single day? Thanks for the info and the product! MK
These forms are great! Thank you SO much for sharing.
Just a very quick question. What font did you use under the emoji emotions? I’d like to add a couple extra ones and would like to use the same font.
This has been such a great tool to use with my 3rd graders through Google Classroom. I just wanted to pop on here and say thank you so much for creating this and putting it out there for us to use.
Thank you so much. I am teaching summer enrichment class and these will be well received!
I am a high school teacher, but I can modify these easily to meet my needs. We were just informed that we need to make classroom participation 25% of the students grades, as well supply an in depth explanation of how this will be achieved. Knowing that we may have possible remote learning in addition to in person learning, these templates will work wonderfully! Thank you so much for sharing these – if anything, I have gained some wonderful knowledge to use!
Hi Jennifer,
This is awesome…quick question…what font did you use for the banner on the check in forms?
Thank you!
Thank you for everything! I love your work. I am trying to figure out how you made the banner for the google forms. I like the font a lot. Is there a certain extension or a website you used? I made a different form and would like to keep the same theme.
Thank you for sharing this valuable resource! My district is implementing zones of regulation for this school year. This tool works perfectly to help me understand what “zone” a student is in and how I can better help them. Awesome for checking in on students virtually!
Thank you for this resource. I love the amazing daily check-in forms!
Hi Jennifer! Are these forms still free? I seem to be unable to click the link. Thank you so much!
I had commented asking where to find the link but I got it – thank you!!
Hi,
Where did you find the link?
This is great! I stumbled across this site after searching for some type of check in for my 6th grade Spanish class. I made a small attempt at creating my own slide with the Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday…..in Spanish and a Buenos Dias/Buenas Tardes and failed miserably. I am wondering if you might have a Spanish version? I’d be willing to purchase in exchange for not having to reinvent the wheel. The Google Form was much easier to edit for Spanish class though so thank you so much!
WOW! Thank you! Thank you! Truly an answer to my virtual teaching prayers. I look forward to purchasing things from you. I will tell everyone at work about your resources. You have saved me hours of trial and error. I teach a 5th grade bilingual class and the fact that I can edit (add translations) is wonderful. Thank you again. I meet with my students for the first time this school year virtually in 8 hours and now I am more excited about what their morning check in will look like for the next few weeks.
This is an awesome idea, daily/week check-in forms, like wrapping up for a day and also a week. Thanks a lot.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS AWESOME RESOURCE!!!!! This is amazing. I’m so happy I came across this awesome FREE resource.
I love this resource. I am using it with my virtual after school STEM class. I am using the end of the day check in.
How do we download the Google Slide Check in? The “link” isn’t working for me.
The concept has been explained very well. Was looking for this information since a while. Looking forward for such interesting updates from you
Thank you so much for making this available for us for free!
Hi I want to do a daily check in for my teacher please email me and send me something so i can do a daily check in.
I like the link that you made my teacher and my family happy