Polls
Overview
The polling feature for meetings allows you to create single or multiple choice questions. You will be able to launch the poll during the meeting and gather the responses form participants.
Zoom offers the option to download a report of the polling after the meeting.
Polls can also be conducted anonymously, if you do not wish to collect participant information with the poll results.
- Creating a poll before class
Go to the Meetings page on the web portal 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.
3. Enter a title.
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.
4. Enter your first question.
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).
5. Type in the answers to your question and click "Save" at the bottom.
6. Click "Add a Question" to create a new question for that particular poll. Note: all questions are launched at the same time.
7. You can add more polls by repeating Step 2. For each meeting you can create a max. of 25 polls.
If you have multiple questions in one poll, you can always go back and edit. Make sure to "Save" at the end!
2. Launching a poll during class
Start your scheduled Zoom meeting.
Select Polling/Votaciones in the menu bar.
3. Automatically, the first poll will be displayed. However, you can select another poll you would like to launch by clicking on the arrow to the right.
4. Click Launch Poll.
5. The participants in the meeting will now be prompted to answer the polling questions. The host will be able to see the results live, both in absolute numbers and in percentage.
6. Once you would like to stop the poll, click "End Poll".
7. You can now see students' voting. Note: At this stage, you cannot see who voted what. That information is only available once you download the results.
8. You have the option to share the result with the students and you can re-launch the poll.
9. Once you have finsihed with this poll, simply click on the "x" top right so that the pop-up goes away. As long as you are live in your session, you can always go back to see the results on your meeting management page (webportal), at the bottom of the meeting where you also add the polls.
View results on webportal
3. Creating the poll during class
Start your scheduled Zoom meeting.
Select Polling/Votaciones in the menu bar.
3.A If it is the first poll you add to the meeting, you will see the below pop-up.
3.B If you already have polls created for this meeting, you need to click "Edit", to add new questions.
4. Next you can add the title and enter the question.
Optional: You can check the box to make the poll anonymous and chose between single of multiple choice question.
5. In the back, the Zoom webportal opens. The new poll will be saved there.
6.A If it is the first poll in this meeting, it will automatically open in the meeting for you to launch.
6.B If you already have polls created for this meeting, you have to select the new poll created before you can launch it.
7. For more detail about launching the poll click here.
4. Downloading a report of poll results
You can download a report of the poll results after the meeting. If registration was turned on and the poll was not anonymous, it will list the participants' names and email addresses. Normally, class links are configured for "IE University Users" only, which means the system identifies each user and subsequently you should have all students names properly displayed in the reports. If the poll was anonymous, it will show "anonymous" for the participants' names and email addresses.
Note that if a poll is relaunched in a meeting, the poll report will only display the last poll occurrence. If you know you will need to launch the same poll twice and want both sets of data, consider creating a second poll with the same questions as the original to avoid re-launching.
Go to your Zoom webportal, click on "Reports" and select "Meeting"
Select report type: Poll Report.
You can search by time range or by meeting ID.
Once selected, click "Search".
Next, you can select the meeting for which you want to generate the report.
Click "Generate".
6. A pop-up window will open where you can select the registrant type that you want to include in the report.
7. This takes you to a list of the reports you have generated (including past reports) where you can chose your download. This downloads a csv file to your computer.
5. Limitations
Participants on the iOS or Android mobile app can use polling, but hosts need to be using the desktop client to manage polling.
Only the original meeting host can edit or add polls during a meeting. If the host or co-host role is transferred to another user, that user will only be able to launch polls already created.
You can create a max of 25 polls for a single meeting, with each poll having a max of 10 questions.
If a poll is relaunched in a meeting, the poll report will only display the last poll occurrence. If you know you will need to launch the same poll twice and want both sets of data, consider creating a second poll with the same questions as the original to avoid re-launching.