Polls and Quizzes

The Polling feature allows gathering information in a meeting or webinar by creating single choice or multiple choice polling questions. Advanced Polls & Quizzes allow for 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. You can download a report of polling after the session concluded. 

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 and/or Allow alternative hosts to add/edit polls and quizzes.                                          Note: Images must be either PNG or JPEG format.
5. Click Save

Create a poll

1. Click the topic of your scheduled meeting in the web portal.
2. Click <+ Create > Poll under the Polls/Quizzes tab at the bottom.
3. Check box to enable Add to Polls/Quizzes library and click Next.
4. Click Untitled Poll to change the name of this set of polls.
5. Click the question area to edit the name of the polling question, choose the type of question,  and enter in answer choices.
6. To create an additional question, click Add Question.
   Note: Each question and individual answers for a question can be reordered as needed. 
7. Click the the ellipses icon to access the following options:
   • Allow participants to answer questions anonymously.
   • Add to Polls library (if not done in Choose what you would like to create window).
8. Click Save.

Create an advanced poll

1. Click the topic of your scheduled meeting in the web portal.
2. Click <+ Create > Advanced Polls and Quizzing under the Polls/Quizzes tab.
3. Check box to enable Add to Polls/Quizzes library and click Next.
4. Click Untitled Advanced Poll to change the name of this set of polls.
5. 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 
     • Multiple Choice
     • 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: Minimum and maximum allowed characters for the response can be set. 
     • Long Answer: Minimum and maximum allowed characters for the response can be set. 
     • Fill in the blank
     • Rating scale: Poll participants can rate a 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. 
   • Click the ellipses for options to upload an image and duplicate a question.
   • Enable Required to ensure a question must be answers before a participant can submit poll answers. 
   • Click the pencil icon to edit the existing poll.
6. Click Add a Question to create an additional question.
   Note: Each question and individual answers for a question can be reordered as needed. 
7. Click the ellipses icon to access the following option:
   • Allow participants to answer questions anonymously
   • Make a quiz and set correct answers
   • Add to Polls library (if not done in Choose what you would like to create window).
8. Click Save.

Create a quiz

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

1. Create an advanced poll. 
2. Click the ellipses icon and click Make a quiz and set correct answers. 
3. Click 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 answers 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.

Create poll 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 <+ Create>.
4. Select Polls.
   Note: With advanced polling and quizzes is enabled, you will have two options displayed: Polls and Advanced Polls and Quizzing.
5. Create an advanced poll. After your advanced poll is created, it will be displayed in the Polls/Quizzes tab.
6. 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.

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, poll must be created in the web portal. 

1. Start the 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 polling window, select the poll or quiz you would like to launch by clicking the caret on the right to see the pulldown menu (if multiple polls or quizzes were created).
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 in the web page. 
   • Display questions in a random order
   • Show one question at a time
7. Click Share Results to share with the participants in the meeting. 
8. Select Show correct answers to all 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