Microsoft Forms is a flexible and easy to customize platform that can be used to create surveys, quizzes, polls, requisitions, and other assessments. This platform can be used with an Office 365 Education account.
Teachers can use this platform to teach remotely, in person, or within a hybrid session. This platform can be used across the curriculum. Teachers can use Microsoft forms to plan for any lesson to identify where students are starting from, what knowledge they have that can be built on and what concepts are completely new to them. It can be used for pre, formative, and summative assessments. Additionally, this platform can combine automatic and manual grading, leave individual feedback, and report results both by student and by question.
Microsoft Forms has several features including image and video insertion, multiple question types, branching, and settings allowing for the recording usernames or anonymity. Teachers and students can access this app on a computer or mobile device, and the form or quiz can be shared easily and quickly via email, a link, or QR code.
Students can create products in programs such as Adobe Spark, Flipgrid, Microsoft PowerPoint, iMovie, and then share them with the teacher through Forms to collaborate. Additionally, teachers can encourage students to create rubrics for class projects using Forms.
Microsoft Forms is a flexible and versatile tool for teachers to use. With this app, teachers can:
Microsoft Forms allows teachers to create formative assessments and use built-in analytics to evaluate every students’ quiz results. Additionally, teachers can work collaboratively with colleagues in the school or district, and create assessments as a team for later customization for their own students. Microsoft Forms also includes the ability to auto-grade multiple choice and short-answer questions to save time in grading. In addition this platform allows teachers to leave overall feedback for students to review in their assignment summary view.
Users of Microsoft Forms can navigate between views and change settings for forms or quizzes using the keyboard and a screen reader. Additionally, Forms can be customized for easy reading, or have a text aloud with Immersive Reader.
Microsoft agrees to be designated as a ‘school official’ with ‘legitimate educational interests’ in customer data as defined under FERPA. Customer data includes any student records provided through a school’s use of Azure (the cloud computing service operated by Microsoft). Microsoft Forms is encrypted and meets FERPA and BAA protection standards.