I've inherited part of a SharePoint site that my company uses for a class it offers. In the past new students were to fill out a Word doc with their information and send it in to have the instructors manually input the data. I'm trying to create a new public form for the data students input and have it fill in the appropriate fields in the instructor form. The 2 will be virtually the same except the Instructor version will have more fields (i.e class number, grades, etc) and will only be able to be accessed by specific people. Please help!

FYI

I have little SharePoint coding experience and do not have "FULL" access to the system only rights to change these specific pages.

Hi,

As I understand, your requirement is that the Instructor version have more fields (i.e class number, grades, etc) and these fields cannot be seen by students.

Do you want to use the two forms or only one form to achieve it?

I recommend you to use one form to achieve it. If using one form, you could hidden these fields in the form when the users are students.

You could select the controls you want to hide, and add the format rule on these controls, and set the rules for these controls. You could store the all users in another list, when you add the rules, you should search the user in that list, then to tell if the user is student or instructor.

The article below is about Hiding Fields in InfoPath 2010 - Conditional Formatting. You could refer to the article for details.

http://sharepoint-mattharmon.blogspot.com/2013/02/hiding-fields-in-infopath-2010_21.html

Best regards,

Sa