Tech Topic 56: Limit Google Forms Responders, Adobe Project Concept Mood Boards , Gemini-Generated Images in Google Slides

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This week the OnEBoard crew shared 3 tips that you can use! This week you can learn how to create forms that are only available to event invitees, use Adobe's Project Concept for developing branding for your content, and generate images in Google Slides with Gemini.

Three tips in 10 minutes here are more resources

Peggy Kolm: Set up Google Forms that Limit Responses to Event Invitees

You can limit responses to a Google Form to people invited to an Event on Google Calendar.  Why use it? You could use a form to organize a potluck BBQ (as in Peggy's example), get feedback from workshop attendees, or have lecture-attendees take a quiz. 

The short version: 

1. Set up an event on Google Calendar and invite people (you need to invite their Google Account email).

2. Create the Google Form and share it with the Google Calendar Event.

3. When you Publish the form, only people invited to the Event can access it.

4. Anyone else who tries to access the form will see the option to request access.

There are step-by-step instructions in the video or follow the slides embedded below. 

An important note:

"The limitation is that if you invite more people to the event after you have already set this up, you need to add those people manually to have access to the form. So it doesn't automatically synchronize between the invitee list and the form responder list."

 

More information: Publish & share your Google Form with Responders.

Bob Danley: Use Adobe's Project Concept for Cross-Platform Branding

Adobe's Project Concept (currently in beta) is a generative AI tool for mood board creation. Bob suggests using it to create branding or a signature series to post on different platforms. You can use your own images to start the process of generating ideas to develop consistent branding across platforms.

"And a mood board basically helps you experiment with design, creates ideas, helps you again brand and signature across all your mediums and helps you convey a mood instead of just the facts because they aren't enough in many cases."

Bob will be talking more about how he is using Project Concept for social media posts and branding when he hosts OnEBoard Chat on February 23. Set a reminder.


Nina Trankova: Use Gemini in Google Slides to Generate Images

Nina demonstrated how to use the Gemini-powered "Help me create an image" tool in Google Slides to create images for visualizing someone taking meeting notes, and suggested using them for social media or work guides. You can choose a style, such as a sketch, vector art or photography and either square, vertical or landscape format.


Create an image in Google Slides. 


Prompt: Taking notes in a virtual meeting, square format, sketch style. 


Prompt: Taking notes in a virtual meeting, square format, no style chosen. 


Prompt: Walk in a winter forest, watercolor style, wide format.

"So you see you can have very nice tools to play with when you at work create content for instructions for social media for some guides at work for employees. So visuals come instantly and you can have a large choice for visualizations." 
 
Note that this feature requires a Google Workspace account with Gemini or a personal account with Google One AI Premium or access to Google Workspace Labs.

More information: How to create images with Gemini in Google Slides

OnEBoard will be back with 3 Tips in 10 Minutes with Teodora Petkova on February 16. Set a reminder.

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