Close or archive a form

Who can use this: Staff and teachers with Forms access and the required permission for this form.

Before you start

Choose the form’s ownership and audience carefully. General form responses and verified student registration are different workflows.

Close or archive a form

  1. Open the exact form and review whether new responses should stop.
  2. Use Close form for a published form when appropriate.
  3. Use Archive form and confirm when the form should be retired.
  4. Review its new state and existing responses.

What happens next

The form stops accepting responses according to its state.

Troubleshooting

Published responses remain available to permitted staff. Archiving is different from erasing all collected responses.