In order to meet the growing demand for electronic forms that are easy to design and deploy, AUB provides its community with different platforms to that allow them to create electronic forms, collect information from audience and access results in real-time.
Below is a list of the available forms platforms:
Microsoft Forms
With Microsoft Forms, you can create surveys, quizzes, and polls, invite others to respond to it using almost any web browser or mobile device, see real-time results as they're submitted, use built-in analytics to evaluate responses, and export results to Excel for additional analysis or grading
Power Apps:
Power Apps is a suite of apps, services, connectors and data platform that provides a rapid application development environment to build custom apps for business needs. Power Apps allows to quickly build custom business apps that connect to data stored in various online and on-premises data sources.
Laserfiche Forms
This platform is suitable for departments that already have Laserfiche licenses. It allows users to create electronic forms, automate approval workflows and collect results in laserfiche repositories.
Campus Press Forms
This plugin to Campus Press allows users to create forms, surveys and polls and add them to their Campus Press sites.
When to use the different Forms Platforms
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Microsoft Forms
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- Simple forms
- Ability to share the form with anonymous or all AUB users
- No complex rules
- No repeating sections
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Click here for a step by step guide.
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Power Apps
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- Complex forms
- Repeating sections
- Complex rules
- Reading data from existing systems
- Ability to share the form with a set of users
- Need for an approval workflow
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Click here to contact IT service desk and create a new service request.
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Laserfiche Forms
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- Availability of laserfiche license(s)
- Simple to complex forms
- Need to integrate with laserfiche repositories
- Complex rules
- Need for an approval workflow
- Ability to share with public or a set of users
- Reading data from existing systems
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Click here to contact IT service desk and create a new service request.
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Campus Press Forms
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- Add forms like contact us form, survey or poll to a Campus Press site
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Click here for a guide to create campus press forms.
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Automation Platform
Office 365 offers a powerful online automation platform, Power Automate, which allows end users to automate actions across the most common apps and services. For example, you can automatically backup all your email attachments to OneDrive, or Get a push notification on your mobile when you will receive email from a specific email address, receive an automated email notifying you of new tweets from a specific Twitter account, with only the information you need...
Click here for a step by step guide.