Describe your contributors and review process. Makeform builds an idea submission form for the problem, proposed solution, benefit, effort, collaborators, and follow-up permission.
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Sample prompts for the builder
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Audience
Employees suggesting workplace or process improvements
Format
Named or anonymous intake with impact and effort
Prompt size
248 chars
Example form structure
Named or anonymous intake with impact and effort
Submit with your name or anonymously?
What problem does this idea address?
Describe your proposed solution
Expected impact and effort
Supporting files
Suggested routing tags
New ideas
Needs detail
Ready for review
Ask for the problem before the solution so reviewers can recognize ideas that address the same need.
Step 1
Submit
problem, idea, benefit, and evidence
Step 2
Triage
category, owner, and missing details
Step 3
Review
impact, effort, fit, and dependencies
Step 4
Respond
decision, next step, and feedback
Better idea intake
A comment box leaves reviewers to reconstruct context. A structured idea submission form captures enough detail to compare, route, and discuss suggestions.
Separate prompts for the problem, proposed change, and people affected reveal the need behind a one-line idea.
Category, benefit, effort, urgency, and dependencies arrive consistently without requiring a full business case.
Department, location, or program directs each submission to an owner; follow-up permission supports clarification.
Flexible programs
Choose the closest audience, then change categories, review criteria, and contact preferences.
Capture workplace improvements, savings, and cross-team proposals with optional anonymity.
Gather the user problem, evidence, value, dependencies, and collaborators before review.
Invite members to describe needs, affected areas, beneficiaries, resources, and volunteer interest.
Gather concepts with audience, timing, format, venue, technology, and organizer details.
Build your intake
Generate the form, tailor review inputs, and publish one place to contribute.
Specify contributors, eligible ideas, anonymity, and the inputs needed for first review.
Add your departments, programs, locations, or themes, requiring only what triage needs.
Request category-specific details, such as event budgets or affected technology systems.
Share a link or embed and route submissions for acknowledgment, review, and updates.
Choose the right intake
An idea form supports repeatable review with consistent inputs and no internal template to learn.
Field guide
These six sections collect a useful proposal without turning it into a long application.
Idea summary
A short title and category help reviewers scan, group similar suggestions, and route each item before reading it fully.
Problem & audience
Ask what happens today, who experiences it, and how often. Examples remain useful even if reviewers choose another solution.
Proposed solution
Ask how the idea could work, what would improve, and where it applies. A long answer allows detail without a formal proposal.
Impact & priority
Collect estimated benefit, urgency, reach, and effort as directional inputs that reviewers can validate later.
Ownership & collaboration
Collect possible teams, contacts, or collaborators and ask whether the contributor wants to participate without assigning delivery automatically.
Evidence & follow-up
Accept relevant links or files. When anonymity matters, keep contact optional and ask whether reviewers may follow up.
Related tools
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Open toolFAQ
Practical answers for managers setting up an employee, member, or community idea program.
An idea submission form lets employees or members propose improvements consistently. It captures the problem, solution, benefit, context, and follow-up details in one reviewable submission.
Include a title, category, problem, affected audience, solution, benefit, urgency, and context. Add effort, dependencies, collaborators, attachments, and follow-up permission when useful. Contributors may not know every implementation detail.
Anonymous intake can lower the barrier for sensitive observations, while named submissions support clarification. Offer both, keep contact optional, and explain who reviews responses.
Ask separately for the problem, audience, change, and an example. Categories and searchable responses help reviewers find, combine, and compare overlapping ideas.
Define a triage owner, visible criteria, and states such as needs detail, under review, planned, or not now. Acknowledge submissions and communicate decisions or next review dates.
Yes. Use categories and conditional paths. Technology ideas can ask about systems, event ideas about audience and venue, and workplace ideas about teams and processes.
Yes. Makeform is unlimited free for generating, editing, publishing, and collecting responses. The paid tier removes the Makeform badge. Customize the questions and share the form with employees or members.
Share a link or embed it on an intranet, member portal, community page, or program site. Explain eligible ideas, review timing, anonymity, and what happens after submission.
Give every useful idea a clear place to start.
