The best form builders for education

When Google Forms starts feeling like a worksheet from 2012, forms.app is the natural upgrade. Quizzes come out looking like something students want to tap through — a step-by-step view that shows one question at a time, or a list view for longer assessments — and calculation fields handle scoring, so a placement quiz can total points and branch students by result.

The AI generator earns its keep on a Sunday night: describe the form in a sentence ("permission slip for a museum trip with parent signature and emergency contact") and a working draft appears, which you tidy up instead of building from scratch. AI generation, conditional logic, and e-signature fields are all included on the free plan — the e-signature part is what Google Forms can't do at any price.

Unlimited free responses cover a full class or grade level without worrying about caps. Paid plans from $29/month add custom branding and advanced analytics — worthwhile for district-wide deployments, but most individual teachers never need to upgrade.

Pricing: Free (unlimited responses & team) · Basic $29/mo ($19 annual) · Pro $39/mo ($29 annual) · Premium $79/mo ($59 annual).

School offices live on paperwork, and Jotform's 20,000+ template library reads like a school secretary's filing cabinet: enrollment applications, field-trip permission slips, sports physicals, library card requests, after-school program registrations. Start from a template, swap the logo, and you've replaced a paper process before lunch.

Two features matter most here. E-signature fields make permission slips legally signable from a parent's phone, and each submission can generate a PDF — so the signed slip files itself. For admissions offices, approval workflows route applications to the right person without forwarding emails around.

At $39/month Jotform is the priciest pick for an individual teacher, but there's a meaningful asterisk: Jotform offers a 50% discount for eligible educational institutions, which changes the calculus for a school-wide account. The editor's learning curve is the other tax — it does more than most schools will ever use.

Pricing: Free · Bronze $39/mo · Silver $49/mo · Gold $129/mo — 50% off for eligible educational institutions.

When the question is "did this course actually work?", SurveyMonkey is the serious instrument. Its validated question banks were written by survey methodologists, so your end-of-semester evaluation measures what you think it measures, and the Genius feature flags biased or leading questions before students ever see them.

The analytics are where it pulls away from everything else on this page: cross-tabulation lets a department head compare feedback across sections, and statistical significance testing separates a real trend from noise. For graduate students running parent or student research, that rigor is the whole point.

It is emphatically not the tool for permission slips or sign-ups — no payments, no signatures, limited customization — and the free plan's 10-question cap rules out real evaluations. Treat it as a specialist you bring in for assessment season.

Pricing: Free (10 questions max) · paid plans use local pricing in most countries.

Every school has a long tail of small forms nobody budgets for: chess club sign-ups, bake sale volunteer slots, yearbook photo submissions, PTA meeting RSVPs. Tally's free plan — unlimited forms, unlimited responses — exists precisely for this tail. The student council can run it without ever hitting a paywall.

The editor works like a Notion page: type a question, hit slash for a field type, done. Students who grew up in Google Docs pick it up in minutes. The trade-offs are a small "Made with Tally" badge on free forms, basic reporting that pushes you to export for any real analysis, and no auto-graded quiz mode — which is why it sits below Google Forms for classroom use despite the best G2 score in this guide.

Pricing: Free (unlimited) · Pro $24/mo · Business $74/mo, billed annually.

Field trips and school events come with math: $28 per student, $12 for the optional museum add-on, a sibling discount, and a family registering three children on one form. Cognito Forms' calculation engine — the strongest at this price — totals all of it live, so parents see exactly what they owe before they pay.

Repeating sections are the sleeper feature for schools. One "Add another child" button collects each student's name, grade, and allergies in its own block, instead of forcing the office to build Child 1 / Child 2 / Child 3 fields and hope no family has four. E-signatures and approval routing are built in for the permission side of the same form.

It ranks sixth because the forms look plain and most teachers simply don't need conditional math. But for the person running event logistics or activity fees, it solves problems the prettier tools can't.

Pricing: Free · Individual $19/mo · Professional $39/mo · Enterprise $129/mo.