Using Forms for Surveys in a Meeting on Microsoft Teams

Using Forms for Surveys in a Meeting on Microsoft Teams

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While working remotely, many organizations and schools use Teams to attend meetings or classes, collaborate on projects, and keep in touch. You can create a Microsoft Forms survey directly in Teams, and then use Power Automate to build an automated workflow that enables you to check in, stay connected with your team, and keep a pulse on their well-being.

  1. In your Teams channel, click Add a tab Add button, and then select Forms.

  2. In the Forms dialog box, choose Create a recurring survey.

    Forms dialog box in Teams and selecting the option, Create a workflow to automatically collect responses

  3. Choose one of the three templates listed, and then select Next step.

    Forms dialog in Teams that describes the employee well-being measurement template and getting started with building the workflow

    We'll use the Employee well-being measurement template for this example.

  4. In the Review questions section in the Forms dialog box, you can preview the survey questions directly in the dialog box. Use the questions as-is or revise them and add your own by selecting customize your question in Forms. This will open the survey template in forms.office.com on your web browser and you can customize from there.

    Forms dialog in Teams with a preview of the employee well-being measurement template

    As you revise or add questions to your survey in forms.office.com, you'll also see the questions update in the preview of the Forms dialog box in Teams.

  5. When you're satisfied with your survey questions, select Next step.

  6. In the Set up recurrence section of the Forms dialog box, you'll see instructions for how to create an automated workflow in Power Automate. Select reminder customization to open Power Automate and follow steps 1-4 in the Forms dialog box to create your workflow.

    Forms dialog box in Teams describing how to create an automated workflow for your survey using Power Automate.

    Note: Learn more about how to create an automated workflow for Microsoft Forms.

  7. In the Forms dialog box, select Next step.

  8. In the Check results section in the Forms dialog box, check Post to the channel about this tab if you want to people on your team to start using your survey.

  9. Select Save.

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