12th Grade — Building the Photo Submission Form

⏰ Do Now — Start Here

If you were submitting your own senior quote and photo, what information would you want the form to ask for?

🎯 Today's Big Question

How do we build a self-serve system for classmates to submit their own photos and quotes?

📈 By the End of Today, You Will Be Able To

Build a Google Form that collects a student's name, ID, senior quote, and photo upload.
Include a consent-for-publication question, per the class's copyright/permissions standards.
Connect the Form to the tracking spreadsheet and share it with the whole class.

🧰 What You'll Need

Computer with Google Forms access
Form template (reference)
Form setup instructions (reference)

📋 Your Plan for Today

Day 1: Build the Form

Do Now (5 min): what information should the form ask for? Mini-lesson (8 min): what makes a good intake form.
Build (27 min): as a class (or in small groups building competing drafts to combine), create the Google Form fields -- name, student ID, senior quote, photo upload, consent for publication.
Share draft (5 min).

Day 2: Connect & Test

Do Now (5 min).
Build (15 min): link the Form to a response Sheet.
Test (15 min): test with a few real submissions and fix any issues.
Share (10 min): publish and share the final link with the whole class.

🖥️ Today's Slide Deck

Short, on-the-board pacing slides — project these to follow along. (The full details are in the handout above, not here.)

Day 1

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Day 2

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📚 Key Words

Google Form: A structured, shareable online form used to collect the same information from many people.
Consent for Publication: Explicit permission from a person (or a minor's guardian) to publish their photo or quote.
Linked Sheet: A spreadsheet that automatically fills in with every new Form response.

✅ What Your Finished Work Should Include

Form tested end-to-end (a real submission flows correctly into the linked spreadsheet) before being shared class-wide.

Exit Ticket: Why does the consent-for-publication question matter, and what should happen if someone says no?

📊 Before You Leave

Quick, anonymous class check-in -- takes less than a minute.

Class Check-In

📁 Portfolio Update — Once a Week

Once a week, add your best finished or in-progress yearbook (or, later, studio) work to your portfolio with a 1-2 sentence caption -- and once you're in the Design Studio phase, a photo of the piece in its real, installed location if possible. This is the same evidence trail you'll use for Archive & Portfolio and any PBAT/portfolio review.

✍️ Example description for your Google Sites portfolio (fill in YOUR blanks -- don't just copy this):

For this piece, I made ______________ (name what you made) for “Building the Photo Submission Form.” This project asked: “How do we build a self-serve system for classmates to submit their own photos and quotes?” I used Google Form by ______________ (explain how you used it in THIS piece). The hardest part was ______________, and I solved it by ______________. I'm proud of ______________ because ______________.

🔗 Want to Learn More?

🚀 The Extra Mile

Cross-Class Connection: The same user-input-form design a Computer Science class covers when building a simple web form.

Career Connection: Self-serve intake forms are exactly what the UI/UX career page calls "research and prototyping" in miniature.

Go further -- turn this into a portfolio piece:

Design and test the form on five real classmates, then revise it based on where they got confused — real usability testing. Start here: open Google Forms and draft just the three required questions first, then hand it to one classmate before testing all five.
Design a promotional flyer encouraging classmates to actually use the submission form — real club/team communication material. Start here: identify the one instruction students skip most on your form, and build the flyer's headline around fixing that specific confusion.