Glossary

Terms are listed alphabetically. Names in bold match the labels you see in the app.

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A

• Add context: The menu in the Create a new form dialog that lets you draft from a PDF document or a Web page instead of only a text description. See Add context.
• Admin: A workspace role that manages the workspace and its people. See Workspaces.
• AI credits: The monthly allowance your organization uses for AI generation, FormAI Agent edits, and AI theme generation. Credits reset monthly and do not roll over. Manual edits, publishing, sharing, collecting responses, and viewing results do not use credits. See AI in FormAI.
• Answer score: The number of points a correct answer earns on a scored Quiz or Live question. The default is 1. See Scoring and answers.

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C

• Canvas: The browser-frame preview in the editor where you edit text, choices, and descriptions in place. See The editor.

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D

• Dashboard: The home page of the app. It shows metrics across your forms, a views and submissions chart, a device breakdown, and a Recent Forms table.
• Draft: The status of a form that you have not published. Draft forms appear in the Draft column of the workspace board.
• Drop-off rate: The share of people who opened a form but did not finish it. It appears as Drop-off Rate on the Overview. See Results.
• Duration limit: A scored-question setting that sets a time limit for answering the question.

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E

• Embed code: An iframe snippet from the Embed Code tab that shows a published Survey or Quiz on your own web page. See Embed on your website.
• Email button: An HTML call-to-action button from the Email tab that you paste into an email campaign. See Email button.
• End screen: The closing screen of a form, such as a thank-you message. A form can have one end screen. See Welcome and end screens.
• Explanation: Text you can write for a quiz question that is shown with the correction.

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F

• Field settings: The per-question panel for behavior, such as Required, Multiple selection, or Random order. Available options vary by question type. See Question settings.
• Field theme: The per-question design panel for preset, font, size, corner radius, alignment, and colors. See Question styling.
• Form settings: The whole-form panel opened with the gear icon. Its general tab controls language, branding, progress bar, and navigation. Its customization tab rewrites respondent-facing text. See Form settings.
• Form type: Whether a form is a Survey, a Quiz, or a Live session. See Form types.
• FormAI Agent: The in-app AI chat panel, in Beta, that proposes edits to your form. You preview each suggestion and apply it. See Edit with FormAI Agent.

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G

• Gallery: The tab in the theme manager that lists 17 preset themes. See Themes.

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L

• Live PIN: The code participants can use to join a Live session. The presenter view shows it together with a QR code. See Host a live session.
• Live session: A presenter-led form where participants answer from their phones while the presenter advances the questions. See Form types.
• Lobby: The waiting room that participants enter when they open the join link, before the presenter selects Start Now.

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M

• Manager: A workspace role that, in general terms, manages forms and sends invites.
• Member: A workspace role that, in general terms, creates and edits forms.
• Mistake penalty: Points subtracted for a wrong answer on a scored question. The default is 0.

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O

• Organization: The top-level container for your team. It holds your workspaces and its monthly AI credit allowance, and you switch between organizations at the top of the sidebar. See Workspaces.

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P

• Participant: A person who joins a Live session. For people who take a Survey or Quiz, see Respondent.
• Preview: The eye icon in the toolbar. It shows the current draft on desktop and mobile side by side. See Preview.
• Presenter: The person who runs a Live session from the presenter view: starts it, advances the questions, and reveals answers.
• Publish: The button in the editor’s top bar that makes a form available to share. A published form appears in the Published column and can still be edited.

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Q

• Quiz: A form type with correct answers and scoring. See Scoring and answers.

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R

• Required: A field setting that makes a question mandatory.
• Respondent: A person who takes a Survey or Quiz. For Live sessions, FormAI says Participant.
• Response: One person’s answers to a form. Responses appear as rows on the Responses tab, with a status, source, and duration. See Individual responses.
• Response Rate: A figure shown on each question’s card in the Summary view, next to Total Answers. See Question summaries.

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S

• Share link: The URL from the Share Link tab that opens a published Survey or Quiz.
• Speed bonus: A scored-question setting that rewards faster answers.
• Submission: A completed form. Completed submissions are counted as Total Submissions on the Overview.
• Submission rate: The share of views that ended in a submission. It appears as Submission Rate on the Overview.
• Summary: The Result view with one card per question and a visualization for each type. See Question summaries.
• Survey: A form type for collecting feedback and research answers without right or wrong answers. See Form types.

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T

• Theme: A saved set of fonts, colors, size, and alignment that styles a whole form. FormAI generates one when it drafts a form. See Themes.
• Theme manager: The panel opened with the brush icon, with a themes tab and a gallery tab.

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V

• Viewer: A workspace role that, in general terms, can view.

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W

• Welcome screen: The opening screen of a form, with the title, description, and a start button. See Welcome and end screens.
• Workspace: A separate space for its own forms and members, shown as a board by form status. See Workspaces.

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