1What they are
Organization menu → Forms, visible to everyone. With at least one form open the button turns green and shows how many there are. They're created by the founder, the admins and whoever has “Manage Forms”; members answer.
2Creating one
➕ New form: type the title and the draft card opens straight away. The description (optional) is added from «📝 Description», the questions with «➕ Add question» — each one required or optional. While it's a draft you can change everything: types, options, order.
- Sections — group questions by topic (“Details”, “Preferences”), with an optional introduction per section.
- Conditional jumps — you attach a jump to an option: whoever answers “No” skips the questions that don't concern them. Forward only, so the path always stays clear.
3Question types
Eight types, mixable within the same form: single choice, multiple choice, yes/no, 1-5 scale, short text, long text, number, file/attachment.
4The settings
- Who can answer — all members, only certain roles, or only the staff.
- Anonymous — for honest answers, not tied to the name; still one answer per person.
- Register mode — the same person can fill it in several times, each submission a row: sign-ups, recurring reports.
- Deadline and answer cap — it closes by itself at the time or the number you set, and the bot says so in the form's «🔔 Submission alerts» group, if one is set, otherwise privately to whoever created it.
- Introduction and thank-you message — the first and the last thing the member reads.
5How you answer
The member opens a 🟢 Open form and answers question by question, in a few taps. Before submitting they can go back and correct; optional questions can be skipped, required ones can't.
6Results and scores
- Aggregates already worked out: percentages and bars for choices, averages for scales, the list of free-text answers.
- Assessments on open answers (Eligible, Top, To review…) — handy for applications and selections.
- 📊 Evaluation: Scored: choice questions are marked automatically, open ones you score by hand, every answer gets its total (“27/40”) and there's a 🏆 Ranking — ideal for quizzes and tests.
- 🤖 Forms AI: it marks the answers too — the closed ones by itself, the open ones with the criteria you give it (“accept synonyms”, “the exact date is required”) — and you confirm before the points become final.
- Export: a tidy PDF and a CSV (one row per respondent), for those who manage Forms and also have “Export data”. In anonymous forms the identity simply isn't there.
7Sharing and notifying
- 🔗 Share (on the card of an open form) — the link to paste wherever you like, or to forward with «📤 Share»: whoever opens it fills it in privately with the bot, with all the restrictions still on.
- 📢 Send to groups — a card with the «✍️ Respond» button in the groups you pick. At the top you see who can answer, and the groups ticked at the start follow that rule; with a restriction the card says so («Restricted to roles: …» or «Staff only»). When the form closes, the button becomes «🔒 Closed».
- 🔔 Notify eligible members — a private message to those entitled.
You can customize the message (with a photo or video too); the sending runs in the background and respects Telegram's limits.
8States, archive, duplicate
The life cycle: 📝 Draft → 🟢 Open → 🔒 Closed → 📦 Archived. The results always stay readable; in the Archive you search by title and filter by date. A closed form reopens with 🔓 Reopen (you can also ask the 🤖 Forms AI): same link, and the answers already in stay where they are.
📋 Duplicate (from a closed or archived form) creates a new draft with the questions and settings ready, «🎓 Results for respondents» included (without the old answers and with a new link): perfect for the monthly feedback or each year's applications.