Faculty, staff and students have a new option to create surveys, quizzes, and polls with ease. Microsoft Forms, part of the University’s Microsoft Office 365 subscription, is a powerful tool with a range of features to customize and share forms, collect responses, and analyze data.

Key Benefits and Features:

  • User-Friendly Interface: Microsoft Forms offers a simple and intuitive interface, allowing you to create forms without any coding or design skills.
  • Form Creation: Easily create custom forms with various question types, including choice, text, images, rating, and date.
  • Templates: Microsoft Forms provides templates for quick form creation, intended for use cases like event feedback, registrations, and assessments.
  • Branching Logic: Direct respondents to different questions based on their previous answers, enabling a personalized survey experience.
  • Sharing: Share forms via a link, QR code, email, or embed them in a webpage, making them accessible to a wide audience.
  • Real-time Collaboration: Collaborate on form creation and analysis in real-time with multiple users.
  • Integration: Seamlessly integrates with other Microsoft 365 applications like Excel, SharePoint, and OneDrive, facilitating data storage, sharing, and collaboration.
  • Analytics: Built-in tools help visualize and analyze responses with automatic charts and insights.

For most data collection needs, Microsoft Forms is a viable alternative to Qualtrics. To learn how to log in and access training resources, review the Office 365: Microsoft Forms knowledge base article.

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