Forum Discussion
Forms: Notification when answers have been given
- Adding notification feature is currently in our backlog. Thanks for taking the time and sharing your feature request with us.
- Nakul Madaan
Microsoft
Adding notification feature is currently in our backlog. Thanks for taking the time and sharing your feature request with us.Hi, receiving automatic email notifications and confirmations has been highlighted among our users as an important feature to be added, and being able to create the text that would go in that confirmation email.
For example, our events team are using Forms to get details of people volunteering to help at an event, and they're concerned that as there will be frequent reminders sent about this over a month-long period, that people will forget they've filled it in and do it more than once. Whereas if they get the email confirmation that they've done it they have that as a reminder.
Also, if Forms were to be used as an online application form, for example, then the applicant would expect an email confirmation so they know for certain that it was submitted correctly.
An ETA on this would be great, right now I am forced to use GAFE/G-Suite.
I am waiting to roll out Office 365 forms in my organisation, this product will help a lot of staff with self creation of forms. This notification of a response email is an essential feature, when can we expect it to be available?
- Nakul MadaanHi Frank - Notification feature is in our to-do list. We are currently trying to understand all the end user scenario for notification feature. Would love to understand your scenarios in more details, please message me your email id and i will schedule a skype call to understand your forms quiz/survey scenarios and to capture your all feature ASKs.
- Have you looked into Microsoft flows?
- Good thought but unfortunately it does not support forms.
- It does support forms. Go to FLOW & search "Microsoft Forms". I'm currently using one to notify me when a quiz is completed.
Email notifications would be an awesome feature for us in Higher Ed! One example use case: a form could be embedded in an LMS course to let students easily ask a question privately to the instructor. However, this won't work if the instructor has to remember to check the form frequently. Even just a simple on/off toggle for notifications and a choice of a notification for every entry vs. a daily digest would work wonders.
Hi Ben Kahn.
Am interested in the scenario you mentioned i.e. using Microsoft Forms to ask a question privately to the instructor.
What about using other 'conversation/chat' tools for that? e.g. Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Classroom (soon to be integrated into Teams).
Hi Gilbert,
Certainly, Teams could work but a form is a much simpler and obvious solution to allow a learner to submit a question to an instructor from within the LMS. Our college already has an LMS in place that is the focus of teacher/student interaction. Most faculty and students will not want to layer on the additional complexity of adding an entirely new workspace (Teams) over the LMS.
Another voice for notifications on forms.
I'm going to add my vote for this feature. It would be very helfpul for staff at my organization.
Hiya,
Just wondered on the status of this addition?
Trying to reproduce a form that is an alternative to GDocs but without the notification alert being sent to the creator, we are going to have to continually refresh. Which isn't ideal during a busy work day.
Thanks
This feature is now available for me. I haven't seen any official announcements or release notes but it is there. Funny that it appeared so soon after the Flow integration. The abilitiy to check a box for email notifications is much more straightforward. I'm in an edu tenant on First Release, so it may show up for others a bit later, but it is coming...
I can confirm I also have the 'Settings | Options for responses | Email notification of each response' setting for Forms now, just tested it and the email notification worked. This is a great addition as it keeps 'Forms' simple to use for end users. 'Flow' is fantastic and it works great with 'Forms' so I will personally use that approach but this notification within 'Forms' cuts down on training requirements. Thanks to Microsoft for getting this implemented!
