Zoom Polling

Overview


Zoom Polling allows you to vote or state your opinion through polls. The Zoom meeting host can create a poll during a meeting and gather the responses from the attendees. A full report of polling can be downloaded after the meeting. Polls can also be conducted anonymously.

Watch a video about Zoom Polling

Enabling Polling

  • Sign into the Zoom web portal
  • Click Account Management Account Settings.
  • Navigate to the Polling option on the Meeting tab 
  • The Polling option is enabled by admin by default.

Allow Zoom polling option

  Creating a Poll

  • Visit spu.zoom.us and schedule a meeting, or select upcoming meeting from the Meetings page and click on your scheduled meeting list.
  • From the meeting management page, scroll to the bottom to find the Poll option
  • Click “Add” to begin creating a poll.

Enable anonymous responses: checking the “Anonymous?” box to make the poll anonymous will keep the student’s polling responses anonymous in the meeting and the reports.

  • Select whether you want the question to be single choice/multiple choice.
  • Type in the answers to your question 

  • Click Save at the bottom.

  • If you would like to add a new question, click Add a Question to create a new question for that particular poll.add new question to poll feature


How to create polls during meeting

Launching a Poll

  • Start the scheduled Zoom meeting that has polling enabled.

  • Select the Polling option in the menu bar.

  • Select the poll you would like to launch.

  • Click Launch Poll.

  • The participants in the meeting will now be prompted to answer the polling questions. The host will be able to see the results live.

  • Click End Poll, when you would like to Stop

  • You can share the results with the participants. Click Share Results


Click here! for Zoom Polling Video Wiki


polling option in zoom toolbar menu

sample poll questions in zoomhost view of live poll resultsshare zoom poll results

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