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Kelvin vs Google Forms
Free tools often have the highest cost.
Google Forms is perfect for ordering t-shirts, but it’s dangerous for student data. While it's free to start, the manual hours spent creating sheets, cleaning data, and trying to spot trends will cost your district far more than a dedicated platform. Kelvin automates the grunt work so you can focus on the students.
| Feature | Kelvin | Google Forms |
|---|---|---|
| Real-Time Student Requests | ✔ | ✖ |
| Longitudinal Data Tracking | ✔ | ✖ |
| SIS Integration | ✔ | ✖ |
| Visual Heatmaps | ✔ | ✖ |
| Chrome Extension | ✔ | ✖ |
| Research-Validated Question Bank | ✔ | ✖ |
| Disaggregated Reports | ✔ | ✖ |
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Thank you for all your support these past two years!"
- Beverly Landers, Dean of Students, Biggs Elementary
Why Districts have switched from Google Forms to Kelvin
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Districts using Google Forms often spend hours cleaning data, merging spreadsheets, and building charts manually for board meetings. Kelvin automates this entirely—disaggregating data by race, grade, and school with a single click, turning days of work into seconds.
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See the Movie, Not Just the Snapshot. Google Forms creates isolated islands of data; you can't easily compare a student's well-being in September to their well-being in May. Kelvin automatically tracks the same students over time, giving you powerful trend lines that prove if your interventions are actually working.
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Google Forms requires students to type their own names (leading to errors) or teachers to manually manage email lists.
Kelvin Syncs directly with your SIS (PowerSchool, Aeries, etc.) nightly. Every response is automatically tied to the correct student, grade, and demographic subgroup without you lifting a finger.