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4 New features in Forms for education | June 2022

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Skylar_Pan
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Jun 23, 2022

To further help educators easily using a form or quiz from begin to end in class, we are focusing on leveling up the creating, editing and tracking experiences. However, company employees can also leverage them for the workplace to collect input and engage colleagues. Read on to learn about our latest updates.  

 

  • Quickly create a form/quiz for your daily workflow  

More dedicated templates tailored to educators are available now. With this feature, teachers can quickly select and create templates including feedback surveys from students, daily workflow requests forms and assessment quizzes based on different needs through forms.office.com. 

 

 

 

If you would like to know more detailed information, please refer to this blog.

 

When: June, 2022 

 

  • Convert paper tests into online ones

If you are the teachers with lots of existing quizzes from word document or PDF document, you can now import and convert them into Microsoft Forms by using our latest “Smart convert” functionality. You want to change a little bit? No problem! After importing, you can still edit the Quiz following the suggestion before sending it out.

 

If you would like to know more detailed information, please refer to this blog.

When: June, 2022

 

 

  • Quiz is fully supported across all devices, including mobile

Whether you are creating a Form or Quiz from scratch, want to edit an existing one, or want to analyze the results, now you can do this fully end-to-end across your various devices. Forms on mobile now has full-feature functionality including Quiz creation, grading, and commenting, so you can use Forms on the go.  You can even start from mobile, edit and distribute via desktop, then go back to mobile to check the results data. 

 

If you would like to know more detailed information, please refer to this blog. 

When: already launched

 

 

  • Keep track and remind non-response people by one click

If you want to share a form or quiz directly to your class or anyone in your organization, you can easily use the invitation channel. An invitation email message with dedicated template will be sent via Outlook on behalf of yourself.

To keep track and remind non-response people, you can easily check the periodic notification email sent from Forms service and send reminders with one click.

 

 

When: June, 2022

 

 

 

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  • Reza_Ameri's avatar
    Reza_Ameri
    Silver Contributor
    Jun 26, 2022

    These are great features and thank you for sharing.

    Hope to see more improvements in the future.

  • Teresa_Cyrus's avatar
    Teresa_Cyrus
    MVP
    Jun 28, 2022

    Great features! and great post.

     

    Organizations besides Educators can benefit from these new features. I hope these features are available to general users sooner than later.

     

    Excited!

     

    Teresa

  • Sipprell's avatar
    Sipprell
    Copper Contributor
    Jun 29, 2022

    Several colleagues in my organization have the new updates but others do not.  Do we know when this will be available to all MS users who have MS Forms?  Is there anything we need to do to ensure we have the latest updates?

  • muzzy121's avatar
    muzzy121
    Copper Contributor
    Jun 24, 2022

    Hi,

    I'm interested to test this function:  Keep track and remind non-response people by one click

    Is it possible to get access to preview? When final version will be avaliable?

    Do I have to have Outlook on Cloud or all users with Exchange onPremise will get an access too?

     

     

     

  • Chad_V_Kealey's avatar
    Chad_V_Kealey
    Steel Contributor
    Jun 27, 2022

    I've been testing the "Invitation" option and while it's kind of neat and useful, there are gaps. Specifically, there's no way to actively check the status of the invitations vs. who has completed the form. Yes, you get the email at some interval, it would be more useful if there were a sort of tracking list. I'm thinking along the lines of a FindTime poll, with a list of people who were invited, an icon for each showing the response status (e.g.: completed, not completed), and a link to either view the response or send a reminder. Maybe that's coming as an enhancement to this feature, but there's very little official documentation out there, so it's hard to know if what we have is all there will be.

  • Skylar_Pan's avatar
    Skylar_Pan
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    Jun 28, 2022

    Hi muzzy121 , thanks for your comments! We are gradually releasing this notification and reminding service until the end of July. For the second question, Outlook on Cloud is definitely okay to test this feature. For Exchange onPremise, it will work if the tenant has done the hybrid authentication. For hybrid identity solution, please refer to:  Authentication for Azure AD hybrid identity solutions - Microsoft Entra | Microsoft Docs.

    If you have any further question, please feel free to leave comments.

     

    Thanks,

    Skylar

  • Skylar_Pan's avatar
    Skylar_Pan
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    Jun 28, 2022

    Hi Chad_V_Kealey  it's really great to know that you already used this new released feature. We are working on iteration right now. If you are interested in telling us more about your suggestion and experience of using this feature, please feel free to fill out the form (click here) I would like to invite you to join an online interview with Forms PM. We are looking forward to hear from you!

     

    Thanks,

    Skylar

  • cnwooldridge's avatar
    cnwooldridge
    Copper Contributor
    Jun 29, 2022

    Is there a way to provide an automatic email response once a form has been submitted? I know you can customize the message they see after submission, but we are looking for another form of confirmation for those that have completed the form. 

  • Chad_V_Kealey's avatar
    Chad_V_Kealey
    Steel Contributor
    Jun 29, 2022

    There are Power Automate flow templates for that. Here are two you might want to consider:

     

    Send an email to responder when response submitted in Microsoft Forms | Microsoft Power Automate

     

    Form processing to email and SharePoint | Microsoft Power Automate

     

    There are others as well, but those are the most basic. Note that if you're allowing anonymous submissions, no email address is being recorded automatically. You'll need to include a question on the form to get their email (and be prepared for MANY people to enter incomplete/incorrect addresses).

  • cnwooldridge's avatar
    cnwooldridge
    Copper Contributor
    Jun 29, 2022

    Chad_V_Kealey Thank you this helps. I have actually been looking at the Power Automate! I think this should work. The issue I am having now is that the form we are using is set up in a group. I have access to the group, but Power Automate is not showing the form I am looking for. 

     

    Thanks