From the course: Microsoft Forms Essential Training

What you should know - Microsoft Forms Tutorial

From the course: Microsoft Forms Essential Training

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What you should know

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- [Instructor] Thanks so much for your interest in Microsoft Forms. Before I get started I'd like to give you a quick overview of some things you should know about Microsoft Forms to get the most out of them. First is that Microsoft Forms is an online tool and what that means is that you will be working in the cloud and you will connect to Microsoft Forms using your Office 365 login. During this course, we will develop a survey as we go along. So what that means is that if you don't create items exactly the way I do, some elements on your monitor might look different from what you see in the video. One very common question is to ask who can use Microsoft Forms? And the answer is that most Office 365 account holders can. There is a distinction, however, between Forms and Forms Pro and which one you get depends upon the type of account that you have. These distinctions may change with time, so I'm not going to go into details. Just know that some accounts get Forms, others get Forms Pro. The big difference between Microsoft Forms and Microsoft Forms Pro is in the analytics and sharing. So you get the basic Forms functionality, it's just that with Microsoft Forms Pro, you get more sophisticated automation. One example of that is using Power Automate, formerly Microsoft Flow, which you can do with Forms Pro and you can't with Forms. So here is some more specific details about who can use Microsoft Forms. First is that if you have an Office 365 Education account, then Education, A1 Plus, A5, and the retired E3 program, which some users still have, all get Forms. For Office 365 Commercial customers, anyone with Business, Business Essentials, Business Premium, or ProPlus will get Forms, and also Enterprise E1, E3, and E5, or anyone who is still using the retired E4 program, gets that as well. Other potential Form users are the government systems, GCC. So if you're in the government and you have GCC and GCC High G1, G3, or G5, you'll get Microsoft Forms. If you have Microsoft personal accounts, then you will get Microsoft Forms as well. So anyone who has a Hotmail account, a Live account, or an Outlook.com account will get to use Forms as well. And these are extremely useful. So even if you have a personal account, make sure that you learn how to use Forms and it'll be a terrific tool for work and also for personal use.

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