Microsoft Forms is a simple, lightweight app that lets you create surveys, quizzes, and polls easily. The tool has a variety of features which allow you to organize all sorts of information. It can be especially beneficial in educational institutions or private teaching sessions. After all, Microsoft Forms is ideal for creating quizzes and collecting feedback from students, teachers and parents.
Compared to Google Forms, Microsoft Forms’ interface might appear to be quite minimalistic — but it is just as functional as other similar tools.
If you are new to Microsoft Forms and are not familiar with all of the app’s features, you’ve come to the right place. In this article, we will look into the branching function in Microsoft Forms. We will see how the feature works, why and for whom it may be useful and how to set it up. Let’s start from the very beginning.
What Is Branching in Microsoft Forms?
Branching is a feature of Microsoft Forms that lets you create immediate in-quiz opportunities for students by way of meandering them to questions based on their earlier answers. This is an efficient way of letting students practice or go over their skills and offer help in the areas where some students might need extra help.
How to Set up Branching in Microsoft Forms?
Enabling branching in Microsoft Forms is pretty easy. You will only need to complete three simple steps:
- Select Branching.
- Pick the question that you want to branch to.
- Click End of the Form
Note: Before you start, make sure you have all your questions ready.
Let’s look at these steps in a bit more detail below.
Step One: Select Branching
- Go to Microsoft Forms.
- Select New Form to begin.
- You will see a blank form open up.
- Click Untitled Form.
- Enter the name for your survey.
- Click the Add New button.
- Add a new question and enter your answer options.
- Add more questions if needed.
- When everything is set, go to the More form settings (…) icon — you will find it in the
- upper right corner of the screen.
- Now, click Branching.
Step Two: Pick the Question that you Want to Branch to
- Go to the Branching options page.
- You will see a drop-down menu appear — next to each answer to the question.
- To reveal the drop-down menu, click the arrow icon.
- For each of the possible responses to the question, pick the question that you want to branch to. For example, if a student answers the first question correctly, they can move on to the next one.
- If a student picks the wrong answer, they will be able to review this topic in question 3 before proceeding to question 2.
Step Three: Click End of the Form
Now, choose the End of the Form option in the drop-down menu if you want a single question to be the last question in your quiz.
You will need to repeat these steps to create branching for all the questions that you need.
This is pretty much it. We hope that you now know how to use branching in Microsoft Forms. Do you find this feature useful? Please share in the questions below.
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