Sample forms to help educators and students shift to online learning
Published Mar 26 2020 12:48 PM 25.1K Views
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Many schools are adopting online learning, but shifting education online can come with challenges, especially as assignments and quizzes are re-imagined for remote distribution. During this time, educators are seeking online tools to help make their classes more interactive and effective. We would like to provide some tips and tools using Microsoft Forms to help your classes stay connected without falling behind academically.

 

As an Office 365 subscriber, you have access to Microsoft Forms. Forms is a web-based app that helps educators easily create quizzes, evaluate class progress, collect student/parent feedback, and customize learning materials for each student.

 

Using Forms to design online quizzes 

As an educator, you can use Microsoft Forms to quickly assess student progress and get real-time feedback through the creation of quizzes that you design and share with your class.

 

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You can create a quiz with a variety of question types, set point values, use customized branching to route students down different learning paths, and display students' points and feedback after they complete the quiz.

 

Additionally, Forms allows you to include an image in the question title and auto-grade multiple choice and text questions. This can help you grade quizzes and provide feedback to students more quickly.

 

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Want to create a form like this? Click here to get one.

 

Microsoft Forms also includes rich, real-time analytics that summarize responses for the educator as well as results for individual students. You can export the quiz results to Microsoft Excel for a more in-depth analysis.

 

Forms in Digital Classrooms

Scenario 1: Using Stream and Forms together to produce interactive online lessons.

 

Educators can leverage Microsoft Stream to create an online media library so that students can watch educational videos remotely. Educators can upload the recorded  videos and include quizzes at the end of each lesson. These online quizzes can help both educators and students test their knowledge and get their scores immediately after each session. Learn more.

 

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A real-world example of integration of Forms into Stream video, from Jie Zhao, teacher from China, MLC

 

Scenario 2: Assign quizzes to students through Microsoft Teams

 

If you already use Microsoft Teams to communicate with your class, it’s easy to send a Forms quiz to students using the Assignments feature in Microsoft Teams. Students can take quizzes in Teams, and you can grade the quizzes without leaving Teams. Learn more.

 

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Scenario 3: Using Forms to distribute educational content

 

In addition to Microsoft Stream, videos can also be added into quiz questions, transforming the quiz into an educational asset. Teachers can add videos to the form so that students can watch the video within a form and then do the quiz to test their knowledge.

 

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In addition to the examples mentioned here, we’ve invested in new feature areas designed to enable educators to improve the e-learning experience. One of these features is File Upload, which allows respondents to upload files when answering a question, extending the scenarios of interactive learning. Other features include immersive reader and branching for customized learning. Learn more about File Upload and check out this blog for detailed information.

 

We’re committed to helping schools and universities stay connected with students through virtual classrooms and online learning, and will continue to provide tips, tools, and information to support your classrooms.

 

Get started with Microsoft Forms here.

11 Comments

Thanks for Sharing with the Community:cool: I have shared this post with teachers in the Netherlands.

Copper Contributor

Any hope for a logout capability from Forms that works?

 

The omission of this capability is what is holding up Forms adoption in the education market where 1:1 devices are still not the norm.

Microsoft

@Patrick James  you can log out and log in by another account from right-up corner "me" control. 

Copper Contributor

@Kathy Liu  Nope.  There is no "Me" control or any other way to log out when completing the form. See screenshot below.

 

I have gone around and around with Microsoft support on this issue and the conclusion was that this is by design because you do not support shared devices or kiosk scenarios, which doesn't seem very acceptable.

 

Even if you navigate to another O365 page such as just going to office.com and clicking the "me" control and logging out, it does not log you out of Forms.  You can log into Office as another user, go to the form, and you are still logged in as the prior user who thought they logged out.  You can even see their form submission data, which seems like a huge data security hole. 

 

I am happy to provide more substantiating information.  This is 100% reproducible, and has been a problem with Forms for years that I would love to see fixed.

 

Screenshot with no logout option:

 

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Copper Contributor

Hello, this is my first post, I'm a math teacher and I made a quiz with Forms. I'm quite happy with it but I would like to know if it is possible to build a quiz with also these features: one question visible at time, none possibility to go back, all the questions shuffled ..... it's very simple to cheat online even with answers shuffled...if they take a picture of the screen and put on the whatsapp group, everyone can help, but if is not possible to go back but only forward and the questions are in different order, I hope that cheating among classmates will be more difficult.

 Thanks

Federica

Copper Contributor

Hi -

 

I've created a form (actually 2) for faculty and department chair use.

 

Faculty submits one form re: progress during the week

The chairs then look at the faculty results for their department and complete an audit form

 

Is there a way for me to forward a completed faculty form to the chairs? Then, make the chair forms available to their boss for viewing? I've been investigating flow. Any advice is greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks.

 

Copper Contributor

hi-

 

Once students have answered the forms, are they able to keep there answers for revision later down the line.

 

are the students able to receive feedback from teachers based on the answers

 

thanks

Copper Contributor

I am a teacher in South Africa and it has worked excellently for our teachers and students for online assessmnet and for teaching our classes online on Teams.  What excellent products.  Well done, Microsoft!!!  The year 2020 and Microsoft have changed the way teachers will teach, forever!

 

Kind regards

Chani

 

Copper Contributor

Hello, there!

Could you please help me with a link to a Microsoft repository of learning objects (for teaching English)?

Thanks a lot!

Copper Contributor

Hi Could you help to create forms with possible 50 answers of a questions?

 

Ex - Write the birds you know?

1.

2.

3

4.

...

 

50.

 

??

Copper Contributor

Hi, just wondering if there is a repository or sources from which I can gather Quizzes in GCSE English and/or FS English? Thanks in advance for any help.

 

 

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