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How to Get Internal Policy Acknowledgement via Microsoft Forms and SharePoint Pages

Recently I was asked to find a way for a HR manager to circulate a new policy and collect acknowledgements from staff members. In the domino world, we'd already have custom databases to do this (or we could whip one up in a matter of minutes) but I needed to find an Office 365 equivalent.  I put the idea to the excellent Office 365 facebook group  and got a number of good suggestions that I'll follow up later to see where they lead me. I was also reminded of the Voting Buttons in outlook which are certainly the fastest method, though not the prettiest. Since I'm determined to use mainly "the new things" in Office 365, I wanted to see if there was a really simple way to do this without getting too technical for my users. The way I found involves SharePoint and Microsoft Forms (but I'm sure that you could just as easily swap out Yammer or even Teams for SharePoint). Procedure 1. Go to a (Modern) SharePoint site that all staff members have access to