Setup Forms

Step 1: Enable Forms Feature

Make sure that the forms feature is enabled for your school.

Step 2: Navigate to Forms Page

Click on the ‘Forms’ page from your instructor dashboard’s sidebar, then click on ‘Create new form’ button.

Step 3: Form Editor Panes

Now, you will see the form editor page, consisting of 3 ‘Panes’:

• Blocks pane
• Preview pane
• Content pane

The Blocks pane on the left lists steps, the center shows a live preview, and the Content pane on the right lets you configure the selected block.Note: By default, all new forms are pre-loaded with Welcome and Thank you blocks.

Step 4: Add a New Block

Step 5: Select Block Type

Once you click on Add blocks button you will see a popup with all the avaibale block types

Step 6: Add the Block to Form

Select a block from here and click on Add this block to form. We offer the following blocks that are further customizable:

• Short text: Capture brief responses such as names or titles.
• Long text: Collect detailed answers or paragraphs.
• Phone number: Gather users’ phone and contact number.
• Website: Collect a URL from the user.
• Date: Let users select a date.
• Address: Collect full address details.
• Dropdown, Single and Multi select questions: Allow users to choose one or multiple options.
• Number: Allow the user to enter a number between a range specified by you.
• Contact information: Capture full name, email, and mobile number.
• Star Rating: Allows user to rate on a scale of 1-5 stars
• Opinion Scale Lets users rate on a custom scale with labels.
• File upload: Allow users to submit files or documents.

For example, let’s select Short text block.

Step 7: Customize the Block

Once a block is added to the form, you can further configure it from the ‘Content Pane’ on the right side. This pane has multiple customization options like:

• Edit your question
• Edit your placeholder
• Edit the text on the Next button
• Add a description(with simple text formatting and the ability to include hyperlinks and YouTube videos)
• Make a question mandatory
• Add a cover image

Additionally, depending on the block you select, the content panes’ customization options will change. For example, the long text block has an option to customize character limit, the address block lets you customize the the street, city, stat, ZIP code and country fields’ visibility and the rating block lets you customize the number of stars.

Step 8: Arrange and Publish Form

Once you have added and customized all the blocks, you can further customize the ‘flow’ of the form by re-arranding the blocks. You can do this by clicking on the ‘drag’ handle on the blocks. Once you are done customizing your form, click on Save and then click on Publish. You can also preview the form by clicking on the play button.