Microsoft Forms - What’s New in March
Published Mar 28 2019 03:02 PM 22K Views
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Microsoft Forms continues innovating to provide customers with a better experience. This month, we added features that will enable better Forms integration with Office apps, give IT admins new capabilities to manage Forms, and help our customers in Government and Education. Read on to learn more.

 

Email Confirmation Receipt

Survey designers now have an option to allow form respondents to receive an automatic email receipt with a copy of their responses right after submission. This will largely help to reduce the post-survey communication cost for form designers. Learn more.

 

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Deeper Forms Integration with Office Apps

Microsoft Forms, integrated with various Office apps, allows users to use Forms in places from which they are familiar. Users can now create a new form, find an existing form, or search for a form in the suite header of office.com. Learn more.

 

 

Additionally, Forms now provides a better experience with the Teams bot. 

 

With the new bot experience in Teams, a user can create a Quick Poll directly in a new thread. This ensures everyone in the channel can see the poll, which won't collapse even after it gets a few replies.  

 

We also added full-width symbol support for the Forms app, which means customers of full-width symbol languages, such as Chinese, no longer have to switch back and forth from English for input. Users can type question and options in the format, “[Your question]? Option1, Option 2, using any language. Learn more. 

 

New Capabilities for IT Admins 

Forms has improved its experience of ownership transfer for disabled or unlicensed usersAn admin can now transfer form ownership from an employee whose account has been disabled or left the organization (no longer than 30 days). Learn more. 

 

Tenant admins can now control whether people in their organization can add an image via Bing search in Forms. An on/off toggle in O365 admin portal has been added for admins to enforce the restriction as needed.

 

Math Keyboard Support in Forms 

As Forms has allowed teachers to easily enter problems using the symbols and numbers in the math keyboard, we have now extended this capability to studentsIa teacher prefers open-ended questions, students can enter their answer using the math keyboard, which saves time and frustration! Learn more. 

 

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Forms External Sharing for Government Customers  

In early April, Forms will enable an external sharing functionality for Government customers. This functionality will allow users to externally share a form to collect responses, collaborate with people outside their organization, share a form atemplate, and share a form result summary. Admins will be able to turn on or off this setting in the admin center. 

 

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We'd love to hear from you and continue making improvements to Microsoft Forms. Please submit your suggestions, feedback, or ideas to the Forms UserVoice 

20 Comments
Steel Contributor

Having these new capabilities is great. However they are not the ones people are Asking for on uservoice. 

 

The forms uservoice also appears as if the forms team has a and OneDrive it. Day after day I get emails of update on commented items that are getting no response. 

 

The too items of page support and file upload have been waited on by customer for a very long time with no updates? 

 

Will these customer requested features ever see the light of day? 

Should we continue to watch uservoice? 

 

Also any update on when forms will start to show up I. The message center and service health like other workloads? 

 

Thanks

 

Microsoft

@Philip Worrell Thanks for being a Forms users and thanks for providing valuable feedback on UserVoice. UserVoice is still the go-to place for our customers to raise feature requests and to vote on the ideas. We leverage these data to prioritize our work items. Both section and file upload capabilities are our top priorities and are in development status. We are working hard together with SharePoint team to provide a secure and compliance solution for file upload. We will update the status on UserVoice when they are available. 

Brass Contributor

@Anqi DuThank you Form team, but I still do not understand four things:

1. Some elements for example in the last picture of your article below the title"Forms External Sharing for Government Customers." The buttons there are old UI from windows 8 and not windows 10 why is that? There are more elements like this.

2. The ribbon is the best UX/UI interface I have seen, and I am sure many agree with it there is a reason why all the other office's apps chose to use it such as access/word/powerpoint/excel, etc...

Moreover people familiar with it and know how to interact with it so why you want to teach them something new from ground up? Ribbon can fit here perfectly, and I can make a concept for it if you wish too, I think it will give users more comfort and reasons to try and use it. 3. If you want people to give a try for MS form, it should have all the essential features that matter from competitor services such as google form. 4. discoverability and discoverability there is no link for form on Bing.com like other office apps, msn.com, outlook.com (there is but it sits alone and not near all the other office apps), etc

Copper Contributor

@Anqi Du can't wait for picture upload.  Until that happens we can't switch our company off of survey monkey even though we want to!!!!

Microsoft

@JohnGPxG Thanks a lot for your feedback. File upload is currently one of the top priorities for our team and we are actively working with SharePoint team to bring this feature to our customers. We'll let you know as soon as it's ready.

Microsoft

@Shaked_Benratzon Thanks for your valuable feedback and I'll share these suggestions with our team. Forms now has been integrated with many Office apps like PowerPoint, Teams, Excel, OneNote, Sway, Flow, etc. and we align with their UI for Forms presence. Also Forms has been included in the app launcher of Outlook.com, W/E/P online, OneDrive, Office.com so that you can go to Forms site directly from these places. We'd like to have our customers to get started from the places they are familiar with and be able to use Forms anywhere and anytime. We also keep close eye on the feedback from UserVoice and prioritize our work. Lastly, the UI you see from last screenshot is the UI on admin portal (web-based), not from Windows. Feel free to let us know if you have further questions.

Brass Contributor

@Anqi Du 

 

Thank you for the reply but I still do not understand why you did not choose Ribbon UI for MS Form or even Sway?

 

Like I said above users already familiar with it and developed muscle memory for the interaction with the Ribbon UI and it is knowledge to be a good and successful UI/UX interface

 

Microsoft

@Shaked_Benratzon You’re right. Coherent experience is important for O365 customers. You will see more alignment show up in Microsoft Forms in the future. But for Forms, we won’t have exactly same ribbon design, as we don’t have complex objects and advanced actions in Forms.

Iron Contributor

Any plans for a time input field?  Found a post that says it's been on your backlog since 2016.  Any update?

Microsoft

@Christopher Neuendorf  Hi Christopher, time input field is in our backlog, but not in our priority list. Could you let us know how do you want to consume "Times" as a question in Forms? 

Brass Contributor

Any roadmap update for data stored in Australia?

Iron Contributor

File upload is critical and that needs to be multiple file uploads.

 

Time field is useful when using form to capture date and time elements especially for onward flow automation and appointment our meeting creation.

Microsoft

@Adrian Mannall Thanks a lot for your feedback. File upload is one of out top priorities and we are actively working with SharePoint team is enable it. We'd like to make sure to provide a secure and compliance solution to our customers.

Copper Contributor

Regarding external sharing, any idea if there is anything in the works to allow only certain users/groups to share forms externally instead of switching it on/off for the entire tenant?

Microsoft

@EricEchelle Hi Eric, thanks for your feedback. Currently this is not on our road map. But I've logged it in Microsoft Forms feature backlog. You can also post your idea on UserVoice.

Copper Contributor
Hi any idea when we will be able to export the forms in pro to excel to see the responses?
Brass Contributor

These are nice, but there is no point in me using this without payment options in the forms too. I can get a better experience through something like cognito forms for our organization. I like that it connects with Microsoft services better, but there are SO many missing features that there isn't a need for me to use this.

Copper Contributor

No entiendo para que todo esto.  Me gusta hotmail y estoy contenta como está diseñado.  Mil gracias

Copper Contributor

@Anqi Du 

 

Is there any word or development status on allowing File Upload responses for externally shared forms? It's been 3 years and over 10,000 votes on their user voice forum and no response from the MS Form team. I've tried to reach out multiple times, but I keep getting no answer from Microsoft.  We are at a standstill with MS Forms because we really need this feature. We have to go back to Google Forms and then use Zapier to upload the files and responses back into our SharePoint Site. It's been very frustrating to us that this need has been forgotten by the MS Form development team. 

 

I can create anonymous links for SharePoint Libraries and for OneDrive locations to external users for them to upload documents, so why can't we have the same within the File Upload prompt in Forms? I have not been able to get a satisfactory answer to this as well. 

 

Thanks!

Copper Contributor

Are you ever going to allow 'File Upload' on externally shared Forms??  This seems very basic.  Often times you need supporting files for surveys.  

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