This article is for faculty, staff, and students who want This article is for faculty, staff, and students who want to create a form, quiz, or survey on the web.
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Go to forms.office.com and sign in with your email address and NetID password.
Click New Form to begin.
Click Untitled Form and enter a name for the form. If desired, a description can be added as well.
Question types
Click Add New and choose
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For Choice questions, add a question and options. If multiple selections should be allowed, enable Multiple answers. Shuffle options and drop-down can also be enabled by clicking the ... icon in the bottom right corner of the question.
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a question type.
By clicking on the ellipsis (…) of each question you will find more options.
Choice: is a typical multiple-choice question. If multiple answers should be allowed, enable Multiple answers.
Click on ellipsis to shuffle the answers for each user. Choose Drop-down to change the radio buttons to a drop-down menu.
Text: is an open ended type question that gives the user a text entry field. The limit for this field is 4,000 characters.
For Rating questions, add the question. Then, choose the number of Levels and the Symbol to be used. The symbols can be labeled by clicking the ... icon in the bottom right corner of the question and then selecting Label.
For Date questions, add the question.
For Ranking questions, add the question and options.
For Likert questions, add the question, statements, and options.
For File upload questions, add the question, file number limit, and single file size limit. To limit the types of files allowed, click the ... icon in the bottom right corner of the question, select File type, and check the files that should be allowed.
For Net promoter score questions, add the question and the scale labels.
Questions can be made required by selecting the Required icon.
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Test out each question type by adding them to your quiz. Once you have a feel for the question types, you may remove the extras and continue creating your form. After each question, you may click on Preview at any time to see how your questions will function for the user. |
Creating Sections
Sections break the form up into multiple pages. Instead of seeing all questions on one page, users will only see one section at a time. To navigate to the next section, all required questions must be answered and the user must click the Next button.
Click Add New.
Select Section.
Enter a section name, and if desired, a description.
Adding Branching (conditional formatting)
With branching, a user's response to a question can dictate what happens next in the survey. You can make questions either appear or disappear depending on a user’s choice on a previous question. On any question, branching can be added by:
Select the ... icon in the bottom right corner of the question.
Click Add Branching
Next to an option or at the end of a question, choose the question or section the survey should go to next.
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