Describe your positions and rules. Makeform creates a student council nomination form that collects nominee information, confirms willingness to run, and routes submissions to the advisor.
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Sample prompts for the builder
Choose a complete example, adapt it to your election rules, or send it into the Makeform builder. The field list is a planning preview, not a live result.
Audience
Students nominating classmates for elected offices
Format
Nomination form with candidate acceptance
Prompt size
314 chars
Example form structure
Nomination form with candidate acceptance
Nominator name, grade, and school email
Nominee name, grade, and homeroom
Which office is this nomination for?
Why would this student be a strong representative?
Nominee agrees to run
Suggested routing tags
Awaiting acceptance
Ready for review
Needs follow-up
Ask for both the position sought and the nominee's agreement to run; an enthusiastic nomination is not the same as candidate acceptance.
Step 1
Nominate
identify the student and office
Step 2
Accept
confirm the nominee wants to run
Step 3
Review
advisor checks rules and completeness
Step 4
Prepare
move accepted candidates toward the ballot
Why use a nomination form
A structured form asks every nominator the same questions and keeps incomplete nominations visible.
Require the nominee's identifying details, office sought, and nomination reason before the submission reaches the election team.
Separate nomination from candidate acceptance so advisors know who genuinely wants to continue in the election process.
Route each response into one searchable list, tag follow-ups, and avoid rebuilding candidate information from email threads.
Adapt to your election
Choose a workflow, then replace the sample offices, dates, eligibility text, and approval steps.
Students recommend classmates and explain the leadership qualities they have observed.
Prospective candidates submit their own statement, experience, and eligibility confirmations.
Use conditional questions for president, class representative, or committee roles with different requirements.
Notify the advisor and send nominees a clear request to accept, decline, or correct their details.
Nomination workflow
Start with school rules, then test acceptance and review before sharing the form.
List each position, who may nominate, whether self-nominations are allowed, required endorsements, deadlines, and how acceptance works.
Add school-specific identifiers and show office-specific questions only after a student chooses the corresponding role.
Alert the advisor when a nomination arrives and create a separate acceptance step for the nominee rather than treating silence as consent.
Submit sample nominations for every office, confirm required fields work, then publish the link in the channels students already use.
Form vs email vs paper
Make requirements visible while a student nominates someone and give advisors a clean review queue.
Field guide
Build around the decisions your advisor must make: identify everyone, match a candidate to an office, document the nomination, confirm participation, and track review.
Nominator
Collect the nominator's name, school email, grade, and advisory so staff can resolve duplicates or clarify an answer.
Nominee
Ask for the nominee's name and the school identifier advisors use. A name alone may not distinguish students.
Position
List only open positions. Conditional logic can display office-specific questions or endorsement requirements after selection.
Rationale
Ask for one example of responsibility, collaboration, or service and how the nominee would represent peers.
Acceptance
Add a distinct response where the nominee confirms the office, reviews expectations, and supplies a candidate statement if required.
Review status
Tag responses as awaiting acceptance, ready for review, needing correction, or complete. Keep staff notes internal.
Related tools
Connect nominations with candidate information, voting, clubs, and student feedback using existing Makeform tools.
Create the voting stage after accepted candidates and ballot details are finalized.
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Open toolFAQ
Practical answers for advisors planning a clear and manageable nomination window.
Students use it to propose a candidate, or themselves, for council office. It records the people involved, position, rationale, and required confirmations before advisor review.
Include nominator details, nominee identity, office, rationale, and an accuracy checkbox. Add acceptance, a candidate statement, endorsements, or office-specific questions when required.
Yes, if school rules allow it. Use a path that asks the candidate directly for the office, eligibility confirmations, experience, statement, and election-schedule acknowledgment.
Ask the nominee to review the position and expectations, then accept or decline. Keep the nomination tagged as awaiting acceptance until they respond.
Yes. A position dropdown can reveal conditional sections. Executive offices might need endorsements, while grade representatives select the year they represent. Test every branch.
Group responses by nominee and office. Decide whether multiple nominations count as endorsements or duplicate suggestions, then explain that rule in the instructions.
Yes. Makeform provides unlimited free forms and responses, so you can generate, edit, publish, and collect nominations without a response cap. The paid tier only removes the Makeform badge.
Verify offices, dates, required fields, acceptance, and notifications. Test each conditional path and the mobile experience, then tell students where corrections should go.
Open nominations with a process students can follow.
