Use forms to collect questions, opinions, enquiries or memories. Choose text, choices, ratings or voice to suit each question, and explain how you will use responses.
Browse the template library, or choose a template from New form, then adapt its questions. Each prompt below gives you a question and a matching starting point; the feedback, enquiry and RSVP guide walks through three complete examples.
Audience questions and content
- Audience Q&As: “What is one thing about this week’s topic you still want explained?” Gather questions for a podcast, video, newsletter, or live session. The audience Q&A playbook covers deadlines, shortlisting, and answering.
- Episode or video feedback: “What stuck with you, and what would you like us to revisit?” Put the link beside the episode or video so people can respond while it is fresh.
- Content ideas: “What should we make next, and why would it help you?” Ask for the reason as well as the suggestion so you understand the need behind it.
- Shoutouts: “Who deserves a shoutout this week, and what did they do?” Explain where you may share the message and ask how to pronounce any names you plan to read aloud.
- Event questions: “What would you like to ask our speakers?” Collect questions before a panel or workshop, then prepare a shortlist for the host.
Use the form introduction for your question and share the link in the description, newsletter, or event information. If you want to play a contribution in a podcast, follow Make messages part of your show.
Feedback and business enquiries
- Customer feedback: “What is one thing we could do better?” Invite a specific example after someone has used your product or service.
- Product ideas: “What were you trying to do that our product could not help with?” Hearing the situation can be more useful than collecting a list of requested features.
- Customer testimonials: “What was it like working together, and what changed for you?” Explain where you would like to feature the recording and check the sender’s agreement before using it.
- Business enquiries: “Tell us what you need a hand with and when you need it.” Ask for an email address if you intend to follow up, then reply through your usual email or contact workflow.
- Team feedback: “What would make next week’s work easier?” Keep the prompt focused on a process or experience you can act on, and tell the team how you will review replies.
Start with Customer feedback, Contact form or Testimonial, then keep the questions focused on what you need to handle each response. Both plans include required or optional name and email questions. Use AI columns for Sentiment or Needs reply on written answers, and review the actual answers in Responses. Replies and testimonial publishing happen in your own workflow.
Events and invitations
- Event RSVPs: “Can you make it, and are you bringing anyone?” Start with Event RSVP, add the event details and collect access or dietary needs only where useful. Review completed responses and count attendance choices before planning numbers.
- Event feedback: “What worked well, and what should we change next time?” Start with Event feedback and ask while the experience is fresh.
- Waitlists: “Leave your email if you would like to hear when this opens.” Start with Waitlist and explain when and why you will contact people. A response does not automatically subscribe someone to a mailing service.
Follow the worked RSVP example for setup and exports. Use form settings to pause replies manually at your cutoff.
Learning and community
- Classroom questions: “What did not make sense in today’s lesson?” Give people a way to ask after they have had time to think, then revisit common themes in the next session.
- Student reflections: “What clicked today, and what is still tricky?” Use the same prompt after a lesson or activity to hear how understanding changes.
- Course feedback: “What should we keep, change, or explain again?” Ask after a specific module while people can still point to examples.
- Book clubs: “Which part of the book stayed with you?” Collect reactions before your meeting, or invite members who cannot attend to contribute.
- Community stories: “Tell us about a moment that changed how you see this place.” Choose a theme and explain whether the stories are for group discussion, an archive, or something you will publish.
Use Course evaluation for learning feedback, Audience survey for group opinions or Guestbook for stories. Link from your course page, group announcement, or meeting notes. Name the form for the lesson, book or theme, or add a choice question if it covers several. Recording options help you choose a suitable length, and the inbox guide explains how to review the replies.
Celebrations and memories
- Wedding guestbooks: “Leave the newlyweds a message to keep.” Put a tested QR code on a sign or table card and give guests somewhere quiet to record.
- Birthday wishes: “Share a favourite memory and a birthday wish.” Send the link ahead of time so people in different places can contribute.
- Family memories: “Tell us a family story we should never forget.” A specific person, place, or occasion makes it easier to know where to start.
Start with Guestbook or Voice message, then use Share to copy your link or get a QR code. On Creator, create a QR code for each table to save table context with the responses. Check your plan’s storage and recording limits before inviting a large group, and test the code at its final printed size. Download the recordings to keep your own copies or assemble a collection in your usual editing tools.
Questions without a name
- Feedback with an optional name: “What would you like us to know? You can leave your name blank.” This can reduce the effort of replying when you do not need to follow up individually.
- Questions people prefer not to ask live: “What would you like explained that you did not want to ask in the session?” Say whether you will answer privately or cover the topic without naming the sender.
Set the relevant questions to optional and only ask for contact details when you need them. An optional name does not make a recording anonymous: a voice, other form answers, and the message’s source details can provide identifying context. If you promise an individual reply, give the sender a way to leave contact details.
Turn one idea into an invitation
- Pick one audience and one question. Use the first responses playbook to keep the invitation focused.
- Create your form from a matching template. Add the prompt and explain how you will use responses. For voice, choose a recording limit and whether people can type instead.
- Publish the complete questions and submit a test through the live link on your phone. Check the answers and any recording in Responses.
- Share the link where people can act on it, or embed the form. Set a time to review and follow up.
For example:
What is one thing we should explain in next week’s video? Leave one question in under a minute. We will choose a few to answer, and we may play your recording in the video.
The form collects the responses. You decide what to answer, keep, edit, or share; publication and any promised follow-up happen in your own workflow.
Next action: Choose one idea above and use it to collect your first responses.