Forms in Preview for Office 365 Commercial Customers
 Garrett Bundy |
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For quite some time now our Education customers have had access to the service called Forms. Forms allows you to create surveys, polls and quizzes that can collect data from both internal employees as well as external customers and vendors. We are pleased to announce that this functionality is now available, in preview, for our Office 365 Commercial Customers. The preview is currently rolling out to tenants whose entire organizations are signed up for First Release, and will gradually be available to other tenants in a few months.
Collect information with surveys, quizzes and polls
Microsoft Forms is a simple, lightweight tool that lets you collect customer feedback, measure employee satisfaction and organize team events. You can create a survey in minutes with no training needed, and respondents can fill it out on any browser without having to install a separate app.
Microsoft Forms comes with question branching, so surveys flow the way you want them to. You can also add themes or your company logo, so they look great without a lot of work. Just send out a link and your survey dynamically adapts to every screen, so it's easy for respondents to fill it out on the go.
Simple, powerful analysis and Microsoft Excel integration
Survey, quiz and poll results are all available in real-time—just navigate to the Responses tab, where you'll also find auto-generated charts that help you visualize response data in an instant. You can also open all results in Microsoft Excel with one click if you need to conduct more custom, in-depth analysis.
Microsoft Forms Responses tab.
Management and compliance via Office 365
Microsoft Forms is part of the Office 365 suite and adheres to the compliance, security and privacy levels you've come to expect from the Office 365 apps. Companies can collect information without users having to go to non-secure solutions, or IT needing to build and maintain custom surveying tools. IT admins can also manage user licenses and enable or disable co-authoring of Microsoft Forms outside their organization.
Microsoft Forms, PowerApps and SharePoint lists
Microsoft Forms offers an easy solution for basic data collection via surveys, quizzes and polls. For more heavy-duty needs, we have announced new tools to create custom forms with PowerApps and SharePoint lists. PowerApps lets you connect to your existing cloud services and data sources to quickly build custom apps that your organization can view, edit and share. When you use it to build an app from a SharePoint list, you can create custom forms ranging from contact lists and travel approvals to purchase requests and customer service tickets. We now have your forms needs covered from basic data collection to custom apps for your organization.
The original blog post can be found on the office blogs site here.
Till Next Time,
Garrett
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