How to Access Microsoft Forms

Quick reference

• 00:04 Microsoft forms is available to anybody who has a Microsoft 365 subscription.
• 00:09 It's also available for free to anyone with a hotmail.com,
• 00:13 live.com, or outlook.com email address.
• 00:17 So let's take a look at the different ways that we can access Microsoft.
• 00:21 So the first way that you can access Microsoft Forms is to simply fire up
• 00:25 a browser and go to office.com.
• 00:28 Now, if you already have a Microsoft 365 subscription and you've logged in
• 00:32 previously, it will take you straight in to the Microsoft 365 homepage.
• 00:37 If you haven't logged in previously, it will pop-up and
• 00:39 ask you to enter your email address and password.
• 00:42 Essentially, all we're doing here is signing in to the Microsoft 365 portal.
• 00:46 Once you're in the portal, if you click the app launcher in the top left-hand
• 00:50 corner, you'll see forms in the list just there, and
• 00:53 it's as simple as that to launch forms.
• 00:56 The other way that you can access forms is to simply open up another browser And
• 01:01 in the URL bar type forms.microsoft.com, hit Enter and
• 01:05 you can access forms that way as well.
• 01:08 Now, if you're anything like me, you might have a Microsoft 365 subscription,
• 01:14 but you also might have a personal Hotmail or Outlook account.
• 01:18 Now you can use forms with either of your accounts, but it is worth noting that they
• 01:22 do differ very slightly depending on which account you're logged in as.
• 01:27 So I've just done a split screen here in the left half of the screen.
• 01:31 You can see the Forms homepage when I sign in through my Microsoft 365
• 01:36 Portal using my business account.
• 01:38 And on the right-hand side of the screen,
• 01:41 this is what I see when I sign in using my Hotmail account.
• 01:44 So you can see that they do look very different.
• 01:47 Now, I will say the functionality doesn't differ
• 01:49 a great deal between these two different versions.
• 01:52 So if you understand one, it's easy to understand the other, but there are some
• 01:57 key differences, which I will highlight as we go through the course.
• 02:01 One that springs to mind is if you take a look at the window on the left-hand side,
• 02:05 when we scroll down to the bottom of the homepage,
• 02:08 you can see I have a My Groups section.
• 02:10 So this is going to allow me to create forms for
• 02:12 any Microsoft 365 groups that I have set up.
• 02:15 Whereas in the version on the right-hand side, if I scroll down to the bottom,
• 02:19 I don't actually have that.
• 02:21 And that is because Groups is entirely for team collaboration.
• 02:26 And we don't generally need that when we're working just in
• 02:29 our personal account.
• 02:30 Now, in this course, I'm going to be using the version on the left,
• 02:34 the one that we use when we log into our Microsoft 365 subscription,
• 02:38 mainly because I think that's how most people will access forms.
• 02:42 So for now, that is how you can access Forms.
• 02:45 I'll see you in the next lesson.

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