Forms is one the most widely used functions in Aboard and with good reason - they're a multi purpose feature. Let’s start with how to create forms

On the top navigation bar Aboard, you will find the forms tab, from here you can set up the different forms, for example equipment order forms, onboarding survey forms. For each form that you create you can decide whether to anonymize responses or not.

When it comes to setting up the actual questions in a forms, you’ve a plenty of options:

As part of the onboarding template, you can set up forms to be automatically sent out at specific points during the onboarding. This could be to, for example, collect IT equipment orders from new starters before their start date. Many Aboard admins give IT equipment options i.e. Android or iPhone and send forms to collect the new starters preferred option in order to send the requests to the IT department.

Another popular use is to anonymize forms and send them as an onboarding survey - the benefit is that the HR team can get honest feedback on what is working well with onboardings and what can be improved.

Forms can also be used as an employee survey tool. The process to create this kind of form is the same as creating any other form. The main difference is that on the people directory you can then filter based on department, workplace etc then send a form to that group of selected employees. Good to know here is that you will need to download the forms and analyze them

All forms that have been sent out to employees and have a minimum of 1 response are displayed under “active forms” on the forms tab where you can also view the responses from participants.You can see the aggregate of responses that participants have submitted on forms sent out. You can also export the forms into CSV files in order if you want to drive any deeper analysis on them.

Note that if you have created an anonymous form, then it will say "Anonymous" instead of the employee's name.

Good luck!