Prepare live polls

  • 24 August 2020
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Polls are a very simple way to learn something more about your audience, gather insights but also let them express their opinion. Once you activate the poll question, participants can send their votes through their devices and results get updated in real-time.

 

Here’s a quick how-to video on how to set up polls:

 

In this article:

Create your poll

 

Log in to Admin and select the Live Polls tab to create your first poll question. Simply choose the type of poll you wish to create, type in your question with the options, and hit save.
 

Creating a poll

 

You can select from the following poll types:

  • Multiple choice poll - a single poll question with options and the possibility for participants to select one or multiple answers
     
  • Rating poll - a single poll question with stars rating (1 - 10)
     
  • Word cloud - a single poll question that transforms the most popular words or short phrases sent by the audience into a cloud of words
     
  • Open text - a single poll question with an open answer allowing for longer texts to be submitted
     
  • Survey - a set of various poll types usually used for feedback or to activate multiple polls at once
     
  • Quiz - a set of multiple-choice polls with correct answers and leaderboard
     

If you wish to add a picture to your poll question, click the image icon on the right and upload it from your computer.
 

Adding an image to your poll



In case you’re running low on time or need some inspiration, check out our template library for some of our favorite poll questions.
 

Creating polls from templates


 

To give your polls some context, open the three-dot menu and write a Description of up to 256 characters long.

 

 

Hide poll results

To get an unbiased vote from each of the participants, you can hide the results before you activate the poll.
 


 




Activate a poll

 

Once you're ready, hover over your poll and click the Play button to activate it. Live results will be displayed in the Present mode as people start sending their votes and you can also check them on the right side of your Admin. Every participant can vote once.

 

Unless you create a Survey or a Quiz, you can activate only a single poll at the time.

 

 

Lock voting

 

While discussing the results, you can lock the voting. People won't be able to vote or change their mind even though the poll is still activated.
 

 

 

 



Create a survey

 

Surveys expand on the features mentioned above by combining multiple polls into a single form. This is a great way of gathering insights, votes, and opinions on multiple questions at once or some feedback after the event.

 

Available in our Engage plan and higher.

 

If your plan offers surveys, simply click Create a survey to begin, as demonstrated below.

 

Create a Survey poll



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If you’re hiding the results, how do you then display them back to the audience in presentation mode?

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Hey @GC-IC ,

You can show the poll results from Present mode by clicking the show results option in the control bar on the bottom left.

Let us know if this helps or if you have any other questions.

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