Create a welcoming questionnaire for your class, team, or event with useful preference fields, optional open answers, and low-pressure icebreakers you can send before the first meeting.
Send questionnaire responses to Google Sheets, Slack, Zapier, or a webhook.
Sample prompts for the builder
Pick a prompt, tailor it to your group, or send it to Makeform. The structure shown here is a planning example, not a generated result.
Audience
Teachers welcoming students at the start of a term
Format
Short student introduction survey with optional sharing
Prompt size
650 chars
Example questionnaire structure
Short student introduction survey with optional sharing
What name would you like me to use, and how is it pronounced?
How do you prefer to participate in class?
Which way of working feels best to you?
What is one skill you would love to learn?
Is there anything else you would like your teacher to know?
Suggested routing tags
New students
New hires
Event guests
Make personal questions optional and explain how answers will be used. A warm welcome should not feel like an assessment.
Step 1
Describe
name the group, occasion, and useful details
Step 2
Balance
mix practical questions with easy icebreakers
Step 3
Share
send one public link before the first meeting
Step 4
Welcome
use answers to plan introductions and support
Warm questions with a purpose
A useful introduction form gives people easy places to start, lets them choose what to share, and captures details you can act on in the room.
Ask about a favorite activity, a recent win, or a skill they want to learn before moving into work styles or support needs.
Collect the name, preferences, availability, or group details you will actually use, then keep personal icebreakers optional.
A seventh-grade class, a remote hire, and a conference table need different language, answer choices, and boundaries.
Choose the welcome moment
Start with the moment you are preparing for, then keep only the questions that will improve that first class, week, or gathering.
Names, learning preferences, interests, and one optional note to the teacher before the first class discussion.
Communication, feedback, focus time, first-month goals, and friendly facts a manager can use during onboarding.
Conversation topics, networking preferences, useful expertise, and separate organizer-only accommodations.
Motivation, interests, availability, task preferences, and permission before sharing an introduction with the group.
How to make a get to know you questionnaire
Plan the question flow around your group, decide what stays optional, and use the answers to shape a more thoughtful welcome.
Explain who will answer and what you will do differently with the results: plan seating, tailor onboarding, choose activities, or prepare introductions.
Replace broad questions with language your group will recognize, add realistic choices, and remove anything you cannot explain how you will use.
Publish the questionnaire and send its public link. Respondents can answer without creating an account.
Prepare name pronunciations, match conversation topics, adjust activities, and follow up privately on support or accessibility notes.
Questionnaire vs live icebreaker vs quiz
A questionnaire collects useful context before the group meets. A live activity creates energy in the room, while a scored quiz tests answers and changes the tone.
Question and field guide
Build the form in layers: a comfortable introduction, preferences you can act on, a few lively conversation starters, and clear choices about privacy.
Identity & context
Begin with preferred name and pronunciation, then add only the context needed for this group, such as class period, role, team, organization, or time zone. Mark pronouns optional rather than forcing an answer.
Preferences & support
Give concrete choices for participation, communication, group size, feedback, availability, or networking. Include an open field for nuances, and review accessibility or support answers without including them in group introductions.
Interests & icebreakers
Choose two or three prompts with many safe answers: a hobby, something they want to learn, a recent small win, or a topic they enjoy. Avoid questions that pressure people to disclose trauma, money, religion, health, or family circumstances.
Consent & follow-up
Tell respondents who will read the answers and how you plan to use them. If you want to publish introductions, create a separate yes-or-no permission field and name exactly which answers would appear.
Related quiz, poll, and survey tools
Collect open feedback, run a quick group vote, or turn the welcome into a light quiz with these related Makeform tools.
Build a broader survey when you need feedback or opinions beyond introductions.
Open toolAsk one quick question to choose an activity, topic, date, or group preference.
Open toolCreate a scored question set when the goal is knowledge or a friendly challenge.
Open toolAsk light multiple-choice questions for a playful self-reflection activity.
Open toolMake a personal, scored quiz for friends rather than an organizer's welcome survey.
Open toolFAQ
Practical answers for teachers, managers, and hosts who want useful introductions without making people overshare.
A get to know you questionnaire is a short set of introduction questions for people entering a new class, workplace, event, club, or cohort. It usually combines practical fields, such as preferred name and communication style, with low-pressure icebreakers. The organizer reads the responses and uses them to plan a more personal welcome.
Good questions are comfortable to answer and useful afterward. Try: What name should we use? What is one thing you would like to learn? Do you prefer small-group or whole-group discussion? What hobby or topic do you enjoy? What helps you feel included? What is a recent small win? Tailor each prompt to the setting rather than copying a long generic list.
For a pre-class, onboarding, or event introduction, eight to twelve questions is usually enough to gather names, a few preferences, and two or three icebreakers. Use fewer if people will answer on arrival. A longer questionnaire can work when the answers inform scheduling, accommodations, volunteer assignments, or a manager's onboarding plan.
Ask the student's preferred name and pronunciation, subjects or activities they enjoy, how they like to participate, whether they prefer individual or group work, one learning goal, and one thing that helps them learn. Include a private optional note to the teacher. Avoid asking students to disclose grades, diagnoses, family finances, or difficult experiences in a general class introduction.
Useful new-hire fields include name pronunciation, role, time zone, communication channel, focus hours, meeting preferences, feedback style, skills they want to use, and what would make the first month successful. Add one or two friendly questions for the team introduction, then ask permission before sharing those answers publicly or in an internal post.
Use preferred-name language, make pronouns and personal icebreakers optional, provide choices that do not assume one family structure or lifestyle, and offer a private open field for access or support needs. Explain who will see the answers. Let people skip a playful prompt rather than requiring a personal disclosure to complete the form.
Yes. Publish the form and share its public link; respondents do not need a Makeform login. You can also embed the questionnaire on a website. Only collect an email address when you need it for identification or follow-up, and explain that purpose in the form.
Yes. A get to know you questionnaire gathers each person's own preferences and introduction for an organizer to read. An icebreaker quiz usually has correct answers, a score, or a result and is designed as a game. Use the questionnaire for planning and welcoming; use a quiz generator when competition or scoring is the point.
Make the first welcome feel considered.
