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This article is for faculty, staff, and students who want to create a form, quiz, or survey on the web.

With Microsoft Forms, anyone can create surveys, quizzes, and polls, invite others to respond to it using almost any web browser or mobile device, see real-time results as they're submitted, use built-in analytics to evaluate responses, and export results to Excel for additional analysis or grading.

Creating a Basic Form

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Choose the option best for your Form:

Create from Forms website

Go to http://forms.office.com and sign in

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with your email address and NetID password.
Click New Form to begin

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Click Untitled Form and enter a name for the form. If desired, a description can be added as well.

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Click Add New and choose the type of question.

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.
For Text questions, add the question. If a long answer is desired, it can be enabled by selecting the Long answer icon.
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.

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

With branching, a user's response to a question can dictate what happens next in the survey. 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.

Adjusting Form Settings

Click the ... icon in the top right corner of the screen.
Select Settings.

On this menu, you will have the ability to enable the following features:

Record name
One response per person
Accept responses
Start date
End date
Shuffle questions
Customize thank you message
Send email receipt to respondents
Get email notification of each response

Changing the Form Theme

To change the form theme, click the Theme button on the top bar. There are many default themes as well as the ability to create a custom theme by clicking the + icon.

Previewing the Form

Previewing the form allows the creator to view the form as someone filling it out. To preview the form, click the Preview button on the top bar.

Sharing the Form

To share the form with others, click the Share button on the top bar. There are four different sharing options:

A link that can be posted or shared.
A QR code that can be scanned.
Embedded HTML.
Email.

Additionally, the form can be shared as a template so others can create their own form or add others as editors.

Visit s.uconn.edu/onedrive and sign in with your email address and NetID password.
Click on My Files in the left-hand menu and find the folder that you would like the spreadsheet to reside in.
Click on Add new in the top-left corner to add a Forms for Excel.
Continue down this page to the “Question types” section.

Create Form in existing Excel spreadsheet

To add a Form to an existing spreadsheet, you must open the spreadsheet in the webapp version of Excel (website).

Visit s.uconn.edu/onedrive and sign in with your email address and NetID password.
Click on My files in the left-hand menu, then locate and open the spreadsheet.
In the top ribbon, click on Insert and choose Forms then New Form.
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Creating a Form in OneNote

A Form can be added to an existing page in OneNote.

Visit onenote.office.com and open the Notebook/note you would like to add the Form to.
Click on Insert and then Forms.
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Continue to Add Questions to Microsoft Forms to learn how to add questions to this form.

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