Forms

 

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Introduction

Getting StartedGet WorkingUsing Forms and Other Apps

Microsoft Forms is an online survey tool you can use to gather and analyze data quickly with quizzes, surveys, or polls. 

With Microsoft Forms you can:

  • Create surveys, quizzes, and polls, and easily see results as they come in.
  • Invite others to respond to your form using any web browser, and even on mobile devices.
  • Use built-in analytics to evaluate responses as they're submitted.
  • Export form data, such as quiz results, to Excel for additional analysis or grading.
Forms Home

Microsoft forms is available to users with a Microsoft 365 mailbox and you can login at https://forms.microsoft.com.

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Visit the Microsoft Forms Help Center >>

Getting Started

Creating A Form
  1. Login to https://forms.microsoft.com
  2. Select New Form or New Quiz to begin
  3. Enter a name for your form and a subtitle.
  4. Click +Add question
    • Select your question type
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Forms New Form
  1. Use the Preview button at the top to see how your form will look when you share it with others.

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Viewing Results
  1. Login to https://forms.microsoft.com
  2. Open the form for which you want to review the results 
  3. Select the Responses tab
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Who Can Submit Form Responses?

By default, only people within our organization can submit responses to your form. If you'd like to change that, open the form you'd like to share and click the more options button in the top navigation bar '…'>>Settings>>Who can fill out this form.

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Get Working

Sharing a Form

Send an email inviting your audience to submit your form by pressing the message icon from the Sharing Options menu.

Form Link

Send others a custom link to your form by copying it from the Share menu and pasting it in an email, a message, or on a site.

Forms Sharing

Send QR Code

Let your audience access your form using a QR code scanner or mobile device.

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Embed in Web Page

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Sharing Through Email

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Forms FAQ

Check out some frequently asked questions about Microsoft Forms

Using Forms and Other Applications

You can insert a form or quiz into other Office 365 products you know and love. Check out some examples below and visit the Microsoft Forms Integration Center for more information.

Forms and SharePoint
  1. You can add a form or form results to your SharePoint Online page to give your Team or group easy access to it.
  2. Login to your SharePoint Online site and navigate to the page you want to add the form to.
Forms and Sharepoint
  1. Hover your mouse above or below a web part and you'll see a line with a circled +.
  2. Click + to open the list of web parts to choose from. Select Microsoft Forms from the menu.
Forms and Sharepoint

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Forms and Teams

You can create, edit, gather responses, and collaborate on a form in Microsoft Teams using a Tab.

Conduct a Quick Poll

With Microsoft Forms quick poll, you can create an instant, real time poll in seconds by using the Forms bot. Type your question, followed by options. For example: "How should we get customers' feedback? Online survey, Interview in person." 

  1. 1. In the Conversations tab, type @Forms. In the Suggestions window that appears, select Forms.
  2. Click What can I do? Click Your question? Option1, Option2.
  3. Highlight and delete the placeholder text, Your question? Option1, Option2. 
     
Forms and Teams
Forms and Teams

Add a Forms Tab

  1. In Teams, go to the channel you want and click Add a tab 
  2. Under Tabs for your team, click Forms.
  3. In the Forms tab configuration page that opens, choose Create a shared form that your team can edit, then provide a name for your new form.
  4. Post to the channel about this tab is automatically checked so you can immediately share your new form with your team. If you don't want to share it right away, deselect this option.
  5. Click Save.

 

Get Notifications

The Microsoft Forms connector can help you keep your team up-to-date on the responses for your forms. Just tell the connector which forms you want to subscribe to, and the channel will be notified with a summary of responses each day.

Next to the channel for which you want to set up a notification about your form, click More options '…'> Connectors. To the right of the Forms icon, click the Configure button.

Stream and Teams

Under Choose the form you want to receive notifications for, click the drop down menu and select a form. You'll receive a daily update of responses to your selected form.

Learn more about notifications in Microsoft Teams.

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Forms and Flow

You can use Microsoft Flow to create automatic processing workflows for form responses you receive. You can do things like:

 

 

 

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If you are not already logged into your Microsoft 365 account, you will be asked to log in. 

-Log in using your University provided Microsoft email, usually ending with @austin.utexas.edu. You can also use your eid@eid.utexas.edu email. 

Microsoft Sign in Request

 

-You will be taken to UT Austin's organizational sign in page where you can enter your usual UT password.    

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