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.
