Applies ToMicrosoft Forms

Get smart notifications delivered via email to help you increase form engagement and participation.

  • Engagement monitoring: Forms sends you drafts to notify unresponsive participants, encouraging them to complete forms or quizzes.

  • Insights reminder: When you have sufficient responses, Forms prompts you to check form insights for informed decision-making.

  • Tailored messages: Smart notification analyze form goals, status, gaps, and deadlines and sends personalized messages based on participant behavior.

  • Feedback and incentives: Smart notification encourages participants to complete the form and suggests follow-up actions for form authors.

Try it

  1. Open Microsoft Forms and create a form or quiz as you normally would.

  2. Configure your form settings by selecting the following options:

    • Anyone can respond: allows anyone with the link to fill out the form.

    • Accept responses: enables form submission.

    • Get email notification of each response: sends you an email when someone submits the form.

    • Get smart notification emails to track the response status: enables smart reminders.Form settings for smart reminders

  3. Invite respondents by using the Collect Responses feature.

  4. Smart Notifications: When someone receives an email invitation but doesn't submit the form, the form owner will receive a response status email after about 16 hours.

  5. Select the Send Reminder button in the email to send a reminder to the non-respondent, encouraging them to fill out the form.

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