Form templates for online course creators

Online course creators keep two calendars at once: the cohort launch that fills in a week, and the evergreen catalogue that has to enrol a stranger at three in the morning. The forms on this page cover both — enrolment, feedback, instructor and speaker applications, LMS access.

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Enrolment is really a sorting problem. Format preference, hours available each week, prior experience with the subject — asked before day one, those answers decide which track a student lands in and how the modules get paced.

Then feedback, where timing does the work. A weekly sprint survey lets a bootcamp facilitator fix pacing mid-cohort; an exit survey at the final module only helps the next one. For CME and nursing CEU courses, that evaluation is an accreditation record.

82 forms online course creators actually build

Each one starts from a template you can open and edit. Grouped by the kind of form it is.

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Survey & Feedback form templates

What online course creators usually collect

Where a learner starts

Current skill level, weekly hours, and format preference — live cohort or self-paced. Time zone too, once there are live sessions. An ESL course asks for native language; a music production course asks which DAW.

Instructor and speaker credentials

Applications for teaching slots arrive as a mix of links and files: a GitHub repository or Behance portfolio pasted into a short text field, a recorded demo lesson or lesson-plan PDF attached to the submission, a certification like OSCP or CFP with its number typed in beside it.

Module-level feedback

A rating means little without a location. Course name, module, lesson number, then the actual problem — a quiz calibrated wrong, video that stalls, navigation that dead-ends — so a fix lands on one lesson.

LMS access details

Corporate cohorts need more than an email address. Which course tracks to provision, the requester's department, an approving manager, and the deadline the training has to be finished by before a seat is worth creating.

22 templates to start from

How to set one up

  1. 1

    Open the Online Course Enrollment Form template and rewrite the questions in your own words. You are typing into a document, and each field lands where the cursor already is.

  2. 2

    Add logic so branches matter: a self-paced answer hides the live-session time zone question, and a beginner answer opens the prerequisite check before the enrolment is accepted.

  3. 3

    Embed the form on the sales page with two lines of HTML, or run it as a popup over the catalogue. The same form shares by link or QR code inside your community.

  4. 4

    Point a webhook at your LMS and your email tool so a submission provisions the seat and starts the welcome sequence. Submissions trigger actions one way; nothing syncs back.

  5. 5

    Clone it into a Student Course Feedback Form for the end of each module, then filter responses by cohort to see which week the pacing complaints cluster in.

Frequently asked questions

Can I take course payments through the enrolment form?

Yes. Add products and priced options to the form, then collect payment through secure hosted checkout with Stripe, PayPal, or Square. Payment status is tracked alongside the response.

How do I collect feedback mid-cohort instead of only at the end?

Run a short survey on a schedule rather than one long one at the finish. Bootcamp facilitators send a weekly sprint form covering project difficulty, instructor support and pacing, then filter responses by cohort week. An exit survey at the final module is still worth having, but it only improves the next intake.

Can instructor applicants send me their portfolio or sample code?

Either way. An upload field takes the file itself — a lesson-plan PDF, a slide deck, a recorded demo — and you download or preview it from the submission. For work that already sits online, a short text field is less friction: a GitHub repository, a Behance portfolio, an unlisted video, a discography link. Most instructor applications end up using both.

Will an embedded form slow down my course sales page?

The embed is two lines of HTML. The script is under 8kb gzipped and loads asynchronously, so it does not block the page while your video, testimonials and curriculum outline render. You can also skip the embed entirely and send learners to a hosted link, a QR code, or your own domain.

Where does student data go, and is it GDPR compliant?

Responses land in your account, where you can filter, search and export them. EU hosting is available, and everything is encrypted at rest and in transit under full GDPR compliance. For a nursing CEU registration carrying a licence number, use an end-to-end encrypted form so only you can read what was submitted.

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