With Forms, you can create and manage online forms to collect information from website users. When you create forms, you use the Form Designer to create distinct steps and sections, insert instructional text and images, and insert fields to collect data from website users. The available field types include text fields, text areas, radio button lists, checkboxes, checkbox lists, dropdown lists, and a special email field that sends confirmation email messages to users who enter email addresses. These fields on the Common form type do not map to a database outside the program.
The Online Admissions and Online Reenrollment form types allow you to map forms to a database outside the program. On the Form Designer, you can add fields that map to corresponding fields in The Education Edge. This allows you to accept applications online and create and update records in the Admissions Office section of The Education Edge.
Note: The Online Reenrollment form type is only available to students who were added to The Education Edge as applicants. If you add a student to the system as a student and no applicant record exists, then the student cannot reenroll on the Online Reenrollment form.
After you design a form, you use a Form Display part to create a landing page on the website. In Parts, you create a Form Display part and select the forms to include on the web page. On the website, users view the available forms, and they can click links to start, resume, delete, or print the forms.
For Online Admissions forms, you can also include a link to allow users to review checklist items for their forms.
After you place forms on your website, you manage them in Forms. With the Form Designer, you can adjust the forms as necessary, and on the Data tab, you can view summary information about the forms and manage the data that website users submit. After users start form, you can use the Data tab to create PDFs with their data and delete form entries.
For Online Admissions and Online Reenrollment forms, you can also resubmit form data to the Online Admissions and Online Reenrollment Plug-in.