Introduction to MS Forms (half-day)

MS Forms is a new, powerful survey tool that allows you to quickly and easily create online surveys, quizzes and web forms. In this half-day online course, you will learn how to create and customise your own forms as well as how to analyse the answers you receive.

This course is only available for private bookings, either for groups or as a one-to-one, held online via Zoom or in the classroom. Please get in touch for availability.

Course Overview

Learn how to create professional surveys, quizzes and feedback forms with Microsoft Forms. In just half a day, you’ll gain the confidence to build and share forms that help you gather insights and improve communication.

Why take this course?

  • Learn how to create forms that are easy to complete and understand
  • Gather feedback and insights with confidence
  • Understand the differences between surveys, polls, and quizzes
  • Make use of built-in analytics to evaluate responses
  • Great for internal use, training, events, and more

Who is this course for?

This course is ideal for anyone looking to collect data, gather feedback, or create quizzes – whether you’re in HR, training, comms, or admin.

Duration

Half day

Classroom size

8 approx.

Location

Online or Classroom

Certificate

1 Certification

Experience

Beginner

What you will learn

  • Create a simple form
  • Learn different question and answer types
  • Change the look of your form
  • Preview and share the form with others
  • Make your form responsive and dynamic with branching
  • Download and analyse your results

Course Timetable

This course will be taught in the latest version of the software. We can train this in older versions if needed – please get in touch for more information and availability.

Course Time Table

  • Creating a basic form
  • Exploring question types
  • Customising questions (make mandatory, multiple answers etc…)
  • Themes
  • Preview Form
  • Settings (automatically pick up name from participants in your domain)
  • See My Forms
  • Share a form:
    • for people to fill in
    • for colleagues to collaborate
    • as a template
  • Find forms that others have shared with me
  • Using branching (if you have answered yes, skip straight to question 5)
  • View individual responses
  • Analyse trends and data in the app
  • Full Excel download
  • If there’s time – Using Excel formulae to analyse your data (COUNTIFs, SUMIFs); post your Form in other locations (Teams, Yammer, send by email)

Ready to take the next step?

We are here to help!

This course is only available as a one-to-one or private group booking.

For pricing and availability, send us a message using the form, leave us a message on 020 7375 7300, or speak to an Account Manager straight away using our Live Chat service in the bottom right of your screen!

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Looking for Private Group Training?

If you have three or more learners, a private group training could be cheaper.

We can tailor the content to your team, and host the training remotely, at your workplace or here at Happy’s HQ in Aldgate, Central London.

The Happy guarantee

We want everyone to go away from our courses feeling as though they have learnt useful, practical skills that they can use straight away when they go back to work.

If you don’t feel that your training has been useful or if you are unhappy in any way, please get in touch with our Customer Services team within 30 days of the course.

We will be happy to offer you additional support and training free of charge to help you to gain the skills you need, or if you’d prefer, a full refund.

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Because Happiness Works

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Classroom or live online learning available

Both available for public and private dates.

The small print

For Live Online Interactive Learning sessions (webinars)

The course will run remotely for a full day consisting of three 90-minute live online sessions with independent work in between. 

All learners will need to install Zoom on their machines. Full technical requirements are on the Zoom website. Your link will be included in your joining instructions once you have booked your place — if you haven’t received this email then please contact our team.

Learners should log into the session 10 minutes before the start time to ensure that they have downloaded and set up Zoom correctly. The course will start precisely on time and it may not be possible to go back over material missed by late arrivals. Unfortunately you will be asked to leave and attend a different day if you arrive more than 15 minutes late for online sessions, and more than 30 minutes late for classroom sessions.

Please ensure you read our Terms and Conditions before booking for our payment terms and cancellation policy.

For classroom sessions

All public classroom sessions take place at Happy’s HQ in London at Robert Dolan House, 9 Alie Street, London E1 8DE. Please see our Contact Us page for full directions and a PDF map.

The course will run from 10am to 4:45pm (lunch is served 1pm to 1:45pm — we offer a choice of 3 cold bowl dishes). Please be careful to arrive by 9:45am for registration and refreshments. The course will start precisely on time and it may not be possible to go back over material missed by late arrivals. If you arrive over 30 minutes late you may be asked to leave and attend another day.

Please ensure you read our Terms and Conditions before booking for our payment terms and cancellation policy.

FAQs

What if I have a Mac?

If you are a Mac user, please let us know when booking. If the course is held in the classroom at Happy, the training is held on PCs so we recommend that you bring your Macbook with you (we are not able to provide an additional monitor). For online training, please let us know when booking and you can use your Mac as normal. We provide a PDF with shortcuts for Mac users and your trainer will refer to this throughout the training.