Create and Launch Meeting Polls
The polling feature allows you to create polling questions for your meetings. You will be able to launch the poll during your meeting and gather the responses from your participants. 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.
Note
- To use the polling feature for meetings, it must be enabled on your user account. By default, it should already be enabled but it would be best to double-check your account settings to be sure. For instructions on enabling polling for meetings, view Zoom's Enabling polling for meetings (opens in a new tab) help page.
- You can create a max of 50 polls for a single meeting, with each poll having a max of 50 questions.
- If uploading images, they must be either PNG or JPEG format, and cannot exceed 2MB.
You can create your polls before your meeting occurs or you can create them during your live meeting. The sections below will walk you through both methods and then also how to launch your poll during the meeting.
Create a Poll Before a Meeting
Step 1
Within a web browser, sign in to the University Zoom web portal (opens in a new tab).
Step 2
In the navigation menu, select Meetings.
Step 3
Select the title of your scheduled meeting. If you do not have a scheduled meeting, schedule a meeting.
Step 4
At the top of the page, select the Polls or Polls/Quizzes tab.
Step 5
Select the +Create button to begin creating the poll.
Step 6
Select the text Untitled Poll to give the poll a name.
Step 7
Select the question area to edit the following details:
- Select the Untitled Question area to edit the name of that polling question.
- Select the drop-down menu next to the name of the polling question to choose the type of question.
- Fill out the options related to the question type you chose. To learn about the various types of questions and how to fill them out, please visit Zoom's support page on Understanding question types for surveys, polls, and quizzes (opens in a new tab).
- (Optional) Select the image icon to upload an image to your question.
- (Optional) Select the More (...) icon within the question to configure the following options:
- Duplicate - duplicates the current question.
- Delete - deletes the current question.
- (Optional) Select the Create Breakout Rooms toggle if you want to enable breakout room creation based on poll results.
- (Optional) Select the +Add Question to create an additional question.
- (Optional) Select the gear icon at the top right to configure the following options:
- Require answers to be anonymous
- (Optional) Select the preview (eye) icon to see a preview of what your question or poll will look like to the end user.
- (Optional) Select the More (...) icon at the top right to Save as draft.
Step 8
Select Save in upper right.
After the poll is created you can manage and launch it in the meeting.
Create a Poll During a Meeting
Step 1
Start or join a meeting as the host.
Step 2
In the meeting controls, select Polls.
Step 3
Do one of the following:
- Select Create if there are no polls created yet.
- Select the plus + icon in the upper-right corner to add more polls to the existing ones.
Step 4
Select the text Untitled Poll to change the name of this set of polls.
Step 5
Select the question area to edit the following details:
- Select the Untitled Question area to edit the name of that polling question.
- Select the drop-down menu next to the name of the polling question to choose the type of question.
- Fill out the options related to the question type you chose. To learn about the various types of questions and how to fill them out, please visit Zoom's support page on Understanding question types for surveys, polls, and quizzes (opens in a new tab).
- (Optional) Select the image icon to upload an image to your question.
- (Optional) Select the More (...) icon within the question to configure the following options:
- Duplicate - duplicates the current question.
- Delete - deletes the current question.
- (Optional) Select the Create Breakout Rooms toggle if you want to enable breakout room creation based on poll results.
- (Optional) Select the +Add Question to create an additional question.
- (Optional) Select the More (...) icon at the bottom left of the creation window to configure the following options:
- Require answers to be anonymous
- (Optional) Select the More (...) icon at the bottom left of the creation window, the select Preview to see a preview of what the poll looks like to the end user.
Step 6
Select Save.
After the poll is created you can manage and launch it in the meeting.
Launch a Poll During a Meeting
Polls are not immediately available to participants, as the host needs to launch a poll for participants to be able to respond. During the meeting, all questions under a single poll will be asked when launched. You can create additional polls to ask questions at different times during the meeting.
Step 1
Start or join your meeting as the host.
Step 2
In the meeting controls, select Polls.
Step 3
In the poll window, select the name of the poll to open the details.
Step 4
(Optional) Before launching, select the More (...) icon and then select Edit if you want to modify questions and answers to the poll, then select Save.
Step 5
Select Launch.
The participants in the meeting will now be prompted to answer the polling questions. The host will be able to see the results live.
Step 6
Once you would like to stop the poll, select End Poll.
Step 7
Select the More (...) icon to access the following options:
Re-launch Poll: Launches the poll again.
Note
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 relaunching.
Download Results: This will launch your default web browser so that you can download the entire poll report, which shows what each participant chose, instead of the percentages of each choice.
View Results from Browser: Launches your default web browser and displays the same polling results on the web page.
Step 8
Select Share Results to share the results with the participants in the meeting, then select Stop Sharing when needed.