The polling feature for meetings allows you to create single choice or multiple choice polling questions for your meetings. You will be able to launch the poll during your meeting and gather the responses from your attendees. You also have the ability to download a report of polling after the meeting. Polls can also be conducted anonymously, if you do not wish to collect participant information with the poll results.
This page covers:
Watch this 2 minute and 15 second video to learn more about polling in a Zoom.
To enable Polling for your own use:
Sign in to the Zoom web portal: https://rtmsd-org.zoom.us/
In the navigation menu, click Account Management then Account Settings (if you are an account administrator) or Settings (if you are an account member).
Navigate to the Polling option on the Meeting tab and verify that the setting is enabled.If the setting is disabled, click the toggle to enable it. If a verification dialog displays, choose Turn On to verify the change.Note: If the option is grayed out, it has been locked at either the Group or Account level, and you will need to contact your Zoom administrator.
Watch this 37 second video to learn more about enabling polling.
Watch this 1 minute and 57 second video to learn how to create a poll.
Go to the Meetings page and click on your scheduled meeting. If you do not have a scheduled meeting, schedule a meeting now.
From the meeting management page, scroll to the bottom to find the Poll option. Click Add to begin creating the poll.
Enter a title and your first question.
(Optional) Check the box to make the poll anonymous, which will keep the participant's polling information anonymous in the meeting and in the reports.
Select whether you want the question to be single choice(participants can only choose one answer) or multiple choice question(participants can choose multiple answers).
Type in the answers to your question and click Save at the bottom.
If you would like to add a new question, click Add a Question to create a new question for that particular poll.
*You can have a max of 25 polls per meeting.*
Start the scheduled Zoom meeting that has polling enabled.
Click Polls in the meeting controls.
Select the poll you would like to launch.
Click Launch Poll.
The participants in the meeting will now be prompted to answer the polling questions. The host will be able to see the results live.
Once you would like to stop the poll, click End Poll.
If you would like to share the results to the participants in the meeting, click Share Results.
Watch this 1 minute 45 second video to learn how to launch a poll.
You can download a report of the poll results after the meeting. When viewing a report of the poll results, take note of these things:
If registration was turned on and the poll was not anonymous, it will list the participants' names and email addresses.
If registration was not on, the polling report will show the profile names of authenticated users in the same account.
If the poll was anonymous, it will show "anonymous" for the participants' names and email addresses.