Windows 10: Microsoft Forms is improving Polls in Microsoft Teams Meetings

Brink · Mar 3, 2021

From our initial release of Polls in Teams Meetings until now, engaging our colleagues, students, or guests in virtual meetings has continued to be a top challenge and priority. Having listened to your experiences with using polls in meetings, we recognize how critical it is to run meetings smoothly end-to-end, all the while maintaining engagement for all your audience members.

Today, we want to share how Microsoft Forms is improving Polls in Teams Meetings to bring you closer to this seamless, engaged meeting experience. With expanded access to this polling experience and the open-text poll, you can be assured that all attendees can be heard. Furthermore, with Formsâ intelligence and data insights, you can minimize the time it takes to create polls, and thereafter take action on the information your polls collected.

Leverage Intelligent Poll Suggestions

While preparing for your meeting in the âPollsâ tab of your meeting, you will soon discover poll suggestions. , Formsâ intelligence can suggest poll questions that might be useful for your particular meeting. It can also suggest multiple-choice answer options based on your typed poll question.

Thus, with a few clicks, you can add the polls you need, reducing the time you spend preparing polls. These intelligence features will begin rollout in late March or early April.

Intelligent Poll Suggestions

Launch Open-Text Polls

Rolling out at the end of April, you can ask open-ended questions to your attendees. Without the limitation of multiple choice, you can hear more directly from your attendees. Once submitted, their answers are visualized in a word cloud, where words that are mentioned more often in the responses appear larger. given the context and nuance it can provide, can serve as helpful starting points for discussion.

To best leverage Formsâ text analysis within this feature, we recommend that you ask short answer questions, in which your attendees respond in one to five words.

Open Text Poll

Mark Correct Answer Choices

Starting in mid-April, you can mark a correct answer for your multiple-choice polls in Teams meetings. Whether you are doing a quick knowledge check for your supply chain class or engaging colleagues during a training, this quiz-like feature could prove useful.

Correct Answer Choice Poll

Take Action on Post-Meeting Poll Insights

Starting in mid- to late April, you will find a data report under the same âPollsâ tab where you initially created your polls. Here, you can discover and analyze poll engagement and response data.

Not only can you learn about the average response rate to your polls throughout the meeting, but you can also identify which polls interested your audience the most and which individuals were the mostâor leastâengaged in them. Equipped with these insights, you can take informed follow-up action and prepare for the next meeting or class session more effectively.

Create and Answer Polls in Teams Mobile App

With many of our teammates or students relying on our mobile devices to join Teams calls, we are delighted to share that you can soon create and launch polls on mobile. To do so, you will have to add the Forms app to the Teams Meeting on your desktop first. Then, while managing your meeting on your Teams mobile app, you can create and launch polls under the âMoreâ tab.

Your attendees can vote in polls from their mobile devices without having to visit the Teams chat. They can directly respond via the pop-up window, an experience on par with the desktop experience.

External Guest Participation

Now, any external guests that you invite to your organizationâs Teams meeting can engage with Polls in Teams Meetings. Thus, everyone in your audience can share feedback and be a part of the same interactive poll experience.

Availability for Government Community Cloud (GCC)

We have begun to roll out Polls in Teams Meetings for customers in GCC. Soon, you can add the Forms app to launch polls in your scheduled Teams meetings, as described here. The improvements mentioned above, including intelligence, insights, and more, will become available for GCC only after the original experience is rolled out to all GCC customers.

Next Steps

As these new features become available in the coming weeks, please update your Microsoft Teams to begin exploring them. You can check the Microsoft 365 Roadmap to learn when these features are rolling out. We hope that these improvements make it easier for you to gather, understand, and respond to feedback in your Teams meetings.

If you have additional questions or feedback on Forms, please visit our Support page and Forms UserVoice site, respectively. For others Formsâ updates, you can watch @Mike Tholfsen's video on Microsoft Forms | 9 new features for 2021 and follow the Forms Blog.
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Tenforo · Mar 3, 2021

Microsoft Forms Brings Polls to Teams Meetings

This morning, Microsoft Teams announced new apps to make your meetings more productive and engaging. As a key component of this story, Microsoft Forms is excited to support you in customizing and improving the Teams meeting experience to suit your team’s needs.

As we had announced at Ignite, Forms’ integration with Teams brings the power of polls to your meetings. We are delighted to inform you that we are rolling out Polls in Teams Meetings.

These polls leverage the infrastructure and capabilities of the Forms product to enhance your virtual meeting experiences. Whether you are running a large-scale training session, leading your monthly all hands, or teaching in a remote classroom , Polls in Teams meetings enables meeting presenters to get real time feedback and turn attendees into active participants.

Prepare for an Engaged Meeting

As the meeting presenter or organizer, you can prepare polls in advance. Simply go to your Teams meeting chat or Teams meeting details view and add (+ button) the Forms app as a tab to start creating polls. This tab will be automatically named “Polls.”

When creating these polls , you might notice Forms’ intelligence kicking in. As of today, we support answer suggestions based on text of the poll question. Soon, we will bring the same intelligent features within Forms’ surveys to Polls in Teams Meetings, so that poll creation is as frictionless as possible.

Unless you are designated as the meeting presenter or meeting organizer, you will not be able to add the Forms app as a tab and cannot create and manage polls. Thus, presenters are given control of their meeting experience, as attendees are only able to respond to polls.

Manage a Seamless and Interactive In-Meeting Experience

During the meeting, the presenter or organizer can launch a poll without leaving the meeting window by first clicking the Forms icon at the top of your Teams window. All your prepared polls appear on the right pane, from which you can choose which poll to “launch.”

Launch Polls During the Teams Meeting

If you have new questions to ask as your meeting progresses, you can quickly head back to the original “Polls” tab, then create and launch your poll. When you want to stop collecting responses, you can close the poll.

Attendees will receive a pop-up bubble with the poll question. They can respond via this bubble or via the chat pane if they have it open. If the presenter has enabled non-anonymous poll results, attendees can view these results in the chat pane in real time.

Vote in Polls During the Teams Meeting

Evaluate and Take Action After the Meeting

After the meeting, you can evaluate poll results in the “Polls” tab directly. You can even export them into an Excel workbook to run any analysis or share with colleagues, or view them on the web in the Forms app.

Trusted Security and Compliance

As Polls in Teams Meetings shares the infrastructure of Forms, it meets the same important compliance and privacy standards that Forms meets. Data collected from polls are encrypted and stored on servers in the U.S. or Europe (Europe if you are a European-based tenant).

Get Started

If your organization has a Microsoft 365 Enterprise, Business, Education, or Firstline Workers F3 plan, or an Office 365 Enterprise plan, you can soon, if not already, use polls in your Teams meetings on desktop and the web.

For more details on how to add polls in Teams Meeting and on other questions you might have, please visit our support page. If you have additional questions or feedback on Forms’ surveys, quizzes, or polls, please visit our Forms UserVoice site.
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Brink · Mar 3, 2021

#MSIgnite 2020: What is New in Microsoft Forms

During Ignite 2020, we shared the latest Forms capabilities and scenarios that power team engagement and feedback sharing, helping you stay connected no matter where your team is located. Here's a deeper look at our announcements, as well as an opportunity to connect directly with the Forms product team.

Ignite 2020: Keeping Connected with Microsoft Forms

The workplace continues to evolve, and with the demand for remote and hybrid work flexibility accelerating, staying connected to a physically dispersed team is more important than ever. Hear from the people who matter to you with Microsoft Forms, and make feedback part of your everyday business intelligence. In our session, learn how Microsoft Forms can keep teams engaged and drive a data culture by ensuring your teams stay connected, no matter where they’re located.

Polls in Teams Meetings

We are pleased to announce new poll integrations with Microsoft Teams that will enhance the remote collaboration experience before, during, and after meetings. Polls have been a convenient way to quickly gather feedback in the Teams chat pane. Now, we are bringing the power of polls to meetings, helping you conduct more engaging, informative, and productive meetings.

With this integration, meeting presenters can create polls before a meeting, all in one place under a tab in the Teams meeting. During the meeting, they can launch polls that attendees from any endpoint (mobile, web, desktop) can view and answer, turning passive listeners into active participants. When the poll is published, it will pop-up on the respondents’ meeting screen as well as in the meeting chat, so it’s impossible to miss. Presenters can choose settings such as anonymous responses and close the poll so that it’s no longer accepting responses. All attendees will be able to see the results in real-time and respondents can follow up after the meeting to respond to a poll if the poll has not been closed. For less structured meetings where advanced planning is not required, meeting attendees can create ad-hoc polls during a meeting to get quick feedback on-the-spot. After the meeting, results of the poll can be exported for further analysis in Excel.

The new Forms polls for meetings is an easily discoverable and seamless experience on Teams, where you can prepare, launch, and evaluate polls powered by Forms across meetings of all types, from the quarterly business review to the team happy hour. This feature will begin rolling out to the public over the next several weeks.

Forms added to Office Mobile App

Forms is coming to the Office mobile app. With the Office app, you can easily create, share, and analyze your forms as well as your favorite Office apps all from one place, while on-the-go. The Office app is designed with simple, integrated tools that put the mobile device experience at the forefront. Once you’ve logged into the app, you will not need to repeatedly sign-in to access Forms. In addition to simplifying the mobile experience for Forms creators, Forms respondents can also open and respond to forms more seamlessly using the Office app.

Print a Blank Form

You asked, we listened. Form designers can now print blank copies of a form or quiz. Having heard your feedback, we understand that being able to print forms is important in the case of Internet or device availability issues, increasing accessibility, and storage for archival purposes.

To print a form, simply click the 3 dots on the upper right corner of the screen, near the “Share” button. From the dropdown that appears, select “Print Form”; a pop-up then appears to input your settings to print hard copies of your form or quiz.

Admin Controls for Forms PowerPoint Add-in

Now, admins can choose to enable the Forms add-in for PowerPoint, while keeping the remaining Office add-ins disabled for all Office apps.

Register for Customer Connections

Sign up here to join the Microsoft Forms product team for roundtable sessions to discuss your feedback-gathering needs, as well as learn about our roadmap for FY21. We have multiple roundtable sessions available*.

Promote a data-driven culture with Microsoft Forms. You’ll get to learn from the Forms product team on building a more engaged and data-driven work culture through structured feedback. We’re looking forward to discussing your workflows, frequency of data collection, what’s working well, and where we, the Forms team, can improve.

9/24 4:00-5:00 PM PST

10/14 6:00-7:00 AM PST

10/14 12:00-1:00 AM PST

Microsoft Forms and Teams for interactive meetings. You’ll get a chance to engage with us on one of our latest and most exciting features: the interactive, live poll on Teams, as mentioned above. During this session, we look forward to understanding your current experience getting live feedback during meetings and incorporating your input into a first-rate Teams experience Microsoft Forms.

9/24 5:00-6:00 PM PST

10/14 7:00-8:00 AM PST

10/14 1:00-2:00 AM PST

*Capacity is limited.

We look forward to connecting with you!

To provide feedback, please go to the Microsoft Forms UserVoice site to offer suggestions or vote on ideas others have already submitted.
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Brink · Mar 3, 2021

Microsoft Teams meetings for the classroom

Over the last few weeks, schools have been working tirelessly to enable distance learning for their students and faculty. We’ve heard directly from many of you about engaging students in lessons, encouraging student to student collaboration, and facilitating staff professional development all while remote and we are inspired. We also know these last few weeks have not been easy as uncertainty continues to grow worldwide and the need for our tools to be safe and reliable has never been greater. In all of this, we want to say thank you for sharing your thoughts and ideas on how we can improve Microsoft Teams for distance learning, especially at such a critical time.

While we work on these improvements, we encourage you to explore the many ways you can use Teams today for online classes and meetings. We have created several resources to support you and your class during remote learning.

In this blog we have outlined how students, educators, and IT can maximize Teams for distance learning.

Getting started

Resources for educators

Learning Management System (LMS) integrations

Guidance for IT admins

What’s coming soon

Getting Started with Teams meetings

Creating, attending, and running meetings while using Teams for distance learning

Teams for Education Quick Start Guide (PDF) that includes meetings and calls

Microsoft Teams meetings training

Resources for educators

A how-to video or short webinar are convenient ways to learn directly from trusted experts. Below are a few that we recommend to help you quickly ramp up on Teams meetings.

Quick tips videos: Alice Keeler's Teams meeting "micro-PD"

EdTech expert Alice Keeler has developed a helpful set of “micro-PD" YouTube videos in a Playlist so you can quickly ramp up on Teams meetings. Each video is :30 to :45 seconds long and designed for you to master tips for teaching in Teams in under a minute. See for yourself in the video below!

You can access Alice’s entire Teams meetings micro-PD playlist and for more training, here is her entire https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqa7N83LLptyHiUNIrdFB11tacCLcvVpy. Bookmark both so you can reference at any time.

Webinar - Online lectures and classes with all your students

Dominic Williamson from our product team goes over how to use Teams meetings for distance learning for both K-12 and Higher Education students in this .

Webinar - Using Teams Meetings in the classroom and what's coming soon

Gordon Chang from our product group demonstrates Teams meetings and discusses the future roadmap in this (you can also review the PowerPoint slides).

LMS Integrations

We recently announced that Teams meetings can now easily be integrated with the world’s leading Learning Management Systems (LMS). Learn how you can create a Teams meeting right from within Canvas, Blackboard, Schoology and other LMSs.
Are you an LMS developer who wants to enable Teams meeting creation from within your LMS? We’ve got you covered. Learn how to install the Teams app inside of your LMS here.

IT admin guidance

We want you to be aware of and familiar with the different policy settings for Teams as you deploy. Here are two essential articles that all IT Admins should reference to get the most out of Teams meetings.

IT Admin guidance for setting up meetings

Manage meetings policies in Teams

What's coming soon

We have been listening closely to educators and have already integrated your feedback into our product plans. Here are the features we are currently recently announced, and we have many more being active worked on in UserVoice for Teams and education that you can get the latest status on. Just look for the "Working on it" status in UserVoice items

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As we work to improve the Teams meetings experience for instruction, our top commitment is reliable service delivery to each school and university using Teams. We are also prioritizing features that ensure student safety by making it easier for educators to manage their online classes in Teams meetings.

Thank you again for making time to share your remote learning experiences with us! It is through your feedback that we can build a more useful education tool. Please continue to share your feedback and ideas through UserVoice and feel free to track all of these features on the public roadmap. We’ll continue to share updates on what we’re working on and what you can expect in the weeks to come.
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Windows 10: Microsoft Forms is improving Polls in Microsoft Teams Meetings

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