Yes, Microsoft Forms is encrypted both at rest and in transit. To learn more about encryption in Office 365, search for Microsoft Office 365 Compliance Offerings at the Microsoft Service Trust Portal.
Another thing we wanted the answer to was: are responses to Microsoft forms anonymous?
One source proposed On a test run with colleagues the responses are returned anonymous . Before i send to Microsoft forms and anonymous responses Please can anyone help? I have created a quiz in microsoft forms that i would like to send to a group of students.
Yes, it’s truely anonymous. When we use anonymous function in Microsoft Forms to share a form, the admin and creator cannot see user name for the anonymous responses. When they check the responses, it only shows the respondent as Anonymous.
Microsoft Forms Blog Allow authenticated but anonymous responses with one response per person.
Does Microsoft forms comply with GDPR?
Sep 11 2018 08:16 PM Microsoft is committed to helping business customers comply with the General Data Protection Regulation ( GDPR), which has been in effect since May 25, 2018. Microsoft Forms, part of the Office 365 Family, is GDPR-compliant.
While we were researching we ran into the query “How do I create an anonymous survey in Microsoft forms?”.
In the “Settings” pane of Forms, you can now enable “One response per person” without checking “Record name.” This allows you to create an anonymous internal survey, limiting a single response for each person.
One thought is that for the anonymous survey, you could make the name and email questions required so they must submit something for the fields. If you’re using Forms Pro, I believe there’s validation for email format input, but vanilla Forms doesn’t have this functionality.
Why can’t I see my students’name in form responses?
If you see Anonymous in Name bar, I suppose you didn’t open Record Name function. Record Name function will force students to finish sign-in process before submit an answer which means if you didn’t open it when you create a form, students are able to skip sign-in so that you can’t see their name in Responses page.