Zoho Creator - a fantastic online tool
Posted by: Lyn in Useful, tags: data collection, Education, ICT, Internet, learning, students, teachers, web 2.0, Zoho CreatorZoho Creator is one of the ‘Zoho Work Online’ applications and it really is fantastic! It’s an online data base and form creator and is so useful for easy data collection. If you need to collect any sort of information from your principals and teachers, why not walk the talk by using the Internet and online resources to do this? Zoho Creator has many uses and the extra bonus is that teachers are developing ICT confidence and skills at the same time.
Recently, in preparation for a cluster trip to Palmerston North, I added a trip registration form to the eBest ICT cluster website for the teachers who were going to add their details. I alerted the ICT Lead Teachers to this form by email. The first photo shows the form and the second is a part of the spreadsheet of collected data. I then exported it into Excel. It worked perfectly and saved me a lot of time. And no, I didn’t lose anything! Click on the graphics for a bigger view.

Zoho Creator is easy to use and free. (It has been so far!) You simply drag and drop the fields you require from the selection (see below) and add your questions or choices. The result looks really professional and has many uses for principals, teachers and students. Try it out.


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June 6th, 2008 at 12:31 am
Lyn : Thanks for the nice post & for your appreciation! Keep using Zoho Creator and do try all the other Zoho services
June 7th, 2008 at 12:32 am
Hey Arvind. You people at Zoho are very clever and creative! I am in awe! Thanks for making such fantastic online tools available.
June 21st, 2008 at 6:18 am
As an alternative - we just used Google Docs Spreadsheets & Form function to enrol staff for retreat and to gather feedback. Also worked well. Must try Creator and see whether it has other functionality. Thanks Lyn!