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Polls and Quizzes

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The Polling feature is for gathering information in a meeting or webinar by creating single-choice or multiple-choice polling questions. Advanced Polls & Quizzes allow for dropdown, matching, ranked order, quizzes, and short and long-answer questions. 

Polls are launched during the webinar or meeting and help gather the responses from your attendees or participants. Full details of the poll results, such as each participant's answers and submission times, are contained in the polling reports, which are available after the meeting but can also be made available during the live session. Polls can also be conducted anonymously if you do not wish to collect participant information. You can download a report of polling after the session concluded.

Note: Users on the iOS or Android mobile app can participate in polling, but hosts need to be using the desktop client to manage polling.

Enable the Polling Feature

Sign in to your account on the website portal at https://www.conferzoom.org/

  1. Navigate to Settings > Meeting tab > (In Meeting (Basic). 
  2. Enable Meeting Polls/Quizzes.
  3. Enable Allow host to create advanced polls and quizzes.
  4. You can also choose to enable optional features, Allow host to upload image for each question, Allow alternative hosts to add/edit polls and quizzes, Require answers to be anonymous, and/or Allow host to create breakout rooms from poll results.

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  5. Click Save

Create a poll

  1. Click the topic of your scheduled meeting in the web portal.
  2. Click the Polls/Quizzes tab at the top of the page
  3. Click + Create on the top left of the Polls/Quizzes tab.
  4. Click Polls if not already selected.
  5. (Optional)  Check the box to enable Add to Polls/Quizzes library to make them available for other meetings.
  6. Click Next.
  7. Click Untitled Poll to change the name of this set of polls.
  8. Click the question area to edit the name of the polling question, choose the type of question, and enter in answer choices.
  9. To create an additional question, click Add Question.                                                                    Note: Each question and individual answers for a question can be reordered as needed. 
  10. Create breakout rooms based on poll results.
    • Feature only works for single choice polling questions.
    • Feature does not work if you Require the answer to be anonymous.
    • You must click the Create Breakout Rooms check box for the specific question from which you wish to create breakout rooms.
  11. Click the ellipses icon to access the following options:
    • Require participants to answer questions anonymously.
  12. Save.

Create an advanced poll

    1. Within the Polls/Quizzes tab of your meeting, click + Create.
    2. From the Create Poll/Quiz popup, click Advanced Polls and Quizzing.
    3. (Optional)  Check the box to enable Add to Polls/Quizzes library to make them available for other meetings.
    4. Click Next.
    5. Click Untitled Advanced Poll to change the name of this set of polls.
    6. Click on the question area to edit the following details: 
      • Click the Untitled Question area to edit the name of that polling question. 
      • To the right of the name of the polling question, click the drop down menu to choose the type question: 
        • Single Choice: Poll participants can select only one of the provided answers. Possible answers can be listed all at once or under a drop-down menu.  
        • Multiple Choice: Poll participants can select multiple of the provided answers. 
        • Matching: Poll participants can match prompts on the left side with answers on the right side. Order of prompts and answers can be adjusted as needed. Up to 9 prompts can be provided for each question, with the possible matches ranging between 2-9 options. 
        • Rank Order: Poll participants can rank each item based on the provided scale. Up to 10 items can be provided for each question, with the scale allowing a range of 2-7 options. 
        • Short Answer:  Poll participants can respond with a short answer response. The minimum and maximum allowed characters for the response can be set. 
        • Long Answer:  Poll participants can respond with a long answer response. The minimum and maximum allowed characters for the response can be set. 
        • Fill in the blank: Poll participants are presented with the statement and a blank, asking them to fill in the missing information based on the statement and other context provided. Multiple blanks can be added and each blank has its own answer box.  
        • Rating scale: Poll participants are given a statement or topic, then are given the opportunity to rate the topic on a given scale. The range of the scale can be adjusted from the default of 1-10, and the ends of the scale can be labeled to indicate what the scale is based on, for example Not likely to Extremely likely.
      • Click the blank for each choice to enter an answer for participants to select from. 
      • Click Add Choice, Add Row, Add Column, Add Prompt, or Add Answer (depending on the type of poll question selected) to add additional answer options. 
      • Trash bin icon: Delete the current polling question.
      • Ellipses (to left of trash bin button): Click here to access additional options: 
        • Upload Image: If enabled by admin, allows you to upload an image that displays below the question. Images must be either PNG or JPEG format. 
        • Duplicate Question: Duplicate the current polling question as it currently is.
      • Select the toggle switch next to Required to ensure a question must be answers before a participant can submit poll answers. 
      • Pencil icon: Edit the existing poll.
    7. (Optional) Click Add a Question to create an additional question.
      Note: Each question and individual answers for a question can be reordered as needed. 
    8. Click the Ellipses button (to left of Save button) to access the following option:
      • Require answers to be anonymous: Poll participants can choose to have their answers associated with themselves or to provide answers to the poll anonymously. 
      • Make a quiz and set correct answers: See the following section for more details.
    9. Click Save.

During the meeting, all questions under a single poll will be asked when launched. You can create additional polls to ask questions at a different time during the meeting.

Limitations for advanced polling

  • By default, 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. Alternative host can add or edit polls, but the host must enable the setting for allow alternative hosts to add or edit polls when setting the alternative host. 
  • All meeting participants must be on the supported version or higher, or they will not be able to see or participate in an advanced poll or quiz. 
  • You can create a max of 50 polls for a single meeting, with each poll having a max of 50 questions. 
  • If a poll is relaunched in a meeting, the poll report will only display the last poll occurrence. 
  • Uploaded images must be in PNG or JPEG format, and cannot exceed 2 MB. 

Create a quiz

If you want to set correct answers and score respondents' accuracy, you can turn the polling feature into a quizzing platform. 

  1. Create an advanced poll or click the name of the advanced poll to edit.
  2. Within the advanced poll, click the ellipses icon to the left of the Save icon and click Make it a quiz and set correct answers. 
  3. Click the set answer shown on each question. 
  4. Select which answer(s) you want to be the correct option. 
  5. Enable Required to ensure a question must be answered before a participant can submit quiz answers.
  6. Click Done. 
  7. Click Add Question to add a new question.
  8. Repeat for each question. 
  9. Click Save. 

Polls/Quizzes library 

You can manage a central library of polls/quizzes for meetings. You can create or edit polls and use them for Personal Meeting ID (PMI) and non-PMI meetings. When a poll is marked as available to all meetings, it will appear in the list of polls that can be launched in a meeting. 

Notes:

  • You can only enable up to 10 polls/quizzes for your meetings.
  • Accessing polls created in the central poll library when in a meeting requires version 5.10.3 or higher.

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Create Poll/Quiz in the Polls/Quizzes tab

Create a first saved poll/quiz that can be enabled with all your meetings.

  1. Navigate to the Meetings tab on the left.
  2. Access the Polls/Quizzes tab.
  3. Select the Polls or Advanced Polls and Quizzing icon.
  4. Create a poll or advanced poll. After your poll or advanced poll is created, it will be displayed in the Polls/Quizzes tab.
  5. To enable your created polls/quizzes for all your meetings, toggle to Enable.

After creating a poll in the Polls/Quizzes tab, to the right of a poll, click the pencil icon to edit your poll, or click the ellipses to Duplicate or Delete the poll.

Create a poll/quiz or add poll/quiz to library in the meeting

Note: Mac users require requires macOS version 10.12 or higher.

  1. Start the instant or scheduled Zoom meeting that has polling enabled.
  2. In the meeting controls, click the Polls/Quizzes icon (Mac) or Polls icon (Windows).
  3. At the top right of the polling window, click the + icon.
  4. Select the Polls or Advanced Polls and Quizzing icon.
  5. Create a poll or advanced poll. After your poll or advanced poll is created, it will be displayed in the Polls window.

Launch poll/quiz in the meeting

Polls are not immediately available to meeting participants, as the host needs to launch a poll for participants to respond to. These polls can be created before the meeting starts, or during a live session, but in either case, the poll must be created in the web portal. 

  1. Start the instant or scheduled Zoom meeting that has polling enabled.
  2. In the meeting controls, click the Polls/Quizzes icon (Mac) or Polls icon (Windows).
  3. At the top of the Polls window, hover over the poll or quiz you would like to launch.
  4. Click Launch to prompt participants to answer the polling questions. The host will be able to see the results live.
  5. Once you would like to stop the poll, click End Poll.
  6. Click the ellipses icon to access the following options:

    • Re-launch Poll

      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. 
        • Display questions in a random order
        • Show one question at a time (not available on Mac platform)

  7. Click Share Results to share with the participants in the meeting. 

  8. Select Show correct answers to all (not available on Mac platform) for answers to be displayed to viewers.

For complete information including prerequisites and limitations of features, click below:

Polling https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/213756303-Polling-for-meetings 

Advanced Polling https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/4412325214477 

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