Describe your school's senior feature. Makeform creates a senior spotlight form for names, portraits, quotes, bios, activities, memories, and future plans.
Route spotlight responses to Google Sheets, Slack, and Zapier.
Sample prompts for the builder
Choose a prompt, adapt it, or send it to the Makeform builder.
Audience
Graduating seniors submitting yearbook features
Format
Profile form with portrait upload and word limits
Prompt size
272 chars
Example form structure
Profile form with portrait upload and word limits
Preferred published name and pronunciation
Upload your portrait photo
Write a short bio
Favorite memory and senior quote
Activities, honors, and future plans
Suggested routing tags
Ready to edit
Photo missing
Needs follow-up
State the preferred photo orientation and minimum resolution beside the upload field so seniors submit images that fit the final layout.
Step 1
Invite
send one link to the graduating class
Step 2
Collect
photos, quotes, bios, and plans arrive together
Step 3
Review
filter missing assets and confirm names
Step 4
Publish
move approved profiles into your content calendar
Why one intake form
Collect the words, images, credits, and publishing preferences for each feature.
Keep the portrait, bio, quote, captions, and future plans in the same response.
Limits and examples produce copy that fits a yearbook, website card, or social caption.
Tag incomplete responses, then route ready entries into the editorial schedule.
Spotlights for every channel
Adjust response lengths, image instructions, and optional sections for each group.
Gather a bio, quote, activities, portrait, and verified name for print.
Ask for concise answers, vertical images, captions, and preferred channels.
Capture position, seasons, favorite moment, advice, and photo credits.
Show conditional fields for roles, projects, mentors, and next steps.
Spotlight workflow
Build for the final format, invite seniors, and review one response list.
Give Makeform the audience, channel, word count, photo format, questions, and deadline.
Mark essential fields required, set text limits, and explain file formats and photo credits.
Share the form and use response status to find missing portraits or captions.
Route responses to your editorial sheet, verify details, and assign publication dates.
Form vs email vs document
The collection method determines how much sorting editors do later.
Field guide
Design fields around the editor's choices: displayed name, image, copy length, and destination.
Identity
Ask how the senior wants their name displayed, plus pronunciation and optional pronouns.
Bio
Give the bio a word target and name the details readers need.
Voice
Specific prompts capture a memory, acknowledgment, or advice without an unstructured essay.
Photos
Distinguish portraits from action images and request an accurate caption and credit.
Review
Ask submitters to check names, attribution, captions, and uploaded images.
Routing
Structured group choices help editors identify gaps and assign reviewers.
Related tools
Add forms for bios, graduation details, photos, feedback, and school groups.
FAQ
Practical answers for advisers, coaches, editors, and communications teams collecting graduation features.
It collects the facts, writing, and images for a graduating student's feature. Ask for a published name, portrait, short bio, quote, activities, memories, and future plans in one response.
Ask for preferred name, year, group, activities, favorite memory, an attributed quote, acknowledgments, advice, and future plans. Add word or character limits based on the final layout.
Yes. Use separate uploads for portraits and action images. Explain orientation, resolution, formats, and file naming, then ask for a caption, names pictured, and photographer credit.
Set limits from the space available. A 40-word introduction and two brief prompts are easier to edit than an unlimited essay. Show an example and explain whether editors may shorten responses.
Yes. Use a team, club, role, or program choice to show matching questions. Athletes can see competition prompts while officers see project questions, with shared identity, photo, quote, and future-plans fields.
Use dropdowns for class, team, club, or adviser and route responses to an editorial sheet. Statuses such as ready, photo missing, and follow-up needed reveal gaps and support reviewer assignments.
Yes. Makeform provides unlimited free forms and responses. Generate, edit, publish, and collect without a response cap; the paid tier removes the Makeform badge.
Yes. Update the year, deadline, groups, prompts, and image specifications. Before relaunching, review past gaps; clearer upload labels, tighter limits, or an attribution field can reduce cleanup.
Turn senior stories into an organized feature queue.
