How to add branches or nested questions in Google Forms

Google Forms is a tool used to collect data or opinions through surveys. However, it can do more than that. Usually, it takes the form of a questionnaire, where participants need to answer them in turn. However, from time to time, you may need to branch out logical or nested questions in Google Forms.

This form of creation gives users different questions based on their answers, ignoring questions that are not relevant to them. Branching in Google Forms is ideal when the parts in question are mutually exclusive. Here's how to add a question branch to a form created with Google Forms.

How to make users see questions based on answers in Google Forms

Let's consider the following example: Let's say you want to find a vacation spot for customers who like to visit cities like Greece, Spain, and France.

A simple survey cannot do that easily. Respondents who chose Greece were taken to the next question, which included only cities in Greece, as did the other countries in the survey.

First, you will have to set up each question in the survey, They are referenced to Sections in Google Forms. Each Section is presented as a parallelogram in the diagram.

Once you've set up the basic information, you need to work on tweaking it, making sure the form leads participants to specific questions based on their answers. This is what you need to do.

1. The branching part must be set up in the form of multiple choice questions. To do this, click on the question and in the top right select the drop-down menu and select Multiple choice.

2. Next, you need to ask a question to take the user to the section related to their answer.

3. Click on the question, on the bottom right, click on the 3-dot menu and select Go to section based on answer .

4. Click the drop-down menu next to each answer and select the appropriate Section to send the user to.

5. When done, Google Forms should look like this.

6. Next, you need to change the way the sections run around each other.

7. At the bottom of each Section , select the drop-down menu and select Submit form . This ensures that after selecting an answer, the user is not taken to the section they did not choose. You don't need to do this for the back end of Google Forms.

It's done! Click the Preview button at the top right of Google Forms to check if your branching logic is implemented successfully.

Above is how to branch questions in Google Forms. Hope the article is useful to you.

Marvin Fry

Update 15 August 2023