Access Microsoft Teams
Teams is free to all SPU users and is included in SPU's Office 365 license. You can download Microsoft Teams to your laptop following the steps:
- Go to Teams Download to download Teams for your laptop.
- Sign in with your SPU credentials.
How to create polls using Teams
- Go to your Teams channel or a chat you want to send the poll.
- Click the "More apps" button [1].
- Search "Polls" [2].
- Click the app of Polls.
- Add your question and answer options.
If you want to allow multiple answers, click or tap the toggle next to Multiple selections. Also select whether you want to record names of respondents and/or share aggregated results with respondents.
- Click "Preview" button.
- Preview your poll, and then click Edit if you want to make changes, or click Send if you're ready to post it.
- You can see the result from the Teams channel or chat.
- You also can click "more" to download the result as an Excel file via Microsoft Forms.
Create Polls via Microsoft Forms in Canvas
Microsoft Forms is a web-based application that allows SPU Staff, Faculty and Students to easily create online surveys and polls. All forms are mobile friendly and do not require the end user to download software.
Access Microsoft Forms
- Go to Office.com and sign in with your SPU credentials. Search for Forms, and click the app.
Select New Form or New Quiz or a template.
Type a title for your form. You can also provide an optional description.
Optional: Select style [1] to create a color scheme or a theme.
Select Add new to add a question.
Choose an option: Choice, Text, Rating, or Date questions or select the drop-down list to see and choose one of these options: Ranking, Likert, File upload, Net Promoter Score, and Section.
Select Preview [2] on the ribbon.
Select Computer or Mobile.
Select Back to continue editing your form.
- After you've complete your form/quiz, you can go Settings [3] to choose who have permission to access this form/quiz.
Get Embedded Code for Canvas
- Click Collect responses [4] on the ribbon.
- Go to Embedded code [1] and click Copy [2].
- This code will be pasted into Canvas.
Embed Microsoft Forms in Canvas
- Login SPU Canvas.
- Navigate to the course you want to embed the Microsoft Forms.
- You can embed Microsoft Form in Rich Text Editor, such as Assignments, Quizzes, Discussions, or Pages.
- In the RTE, click Insert from the toolbar and click Embed.
- Copy and paste your form/quiz embed code to the box. And click Submit.
Check responses
- Go back to your Microsoft Forms. Office.com and then select Forms.
- Go to the form/quiz you want to check responses.
- Click Responses [5] on the ribbon.
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