Zoom - Polls & Surveys
This is a step-by-step guide to creating Polls and Surveys for Zoom meetings. Polls can be created prior to and during a meeting. Poll feature for meetings allows you to create single choice or multiple choice questions. Surveys must be created prior to the start of the meetings. You can create up to 50 polls for a single meeting, with 10 questions each.
Polls: Creating, Saving & Running
Enable Polling for Zoom Meetings
First step is to enable the polling option before you are able to create a poll. In your web browser, sign in to NDSU.Zoom.us and select Settings in the Personal section of the left-hand menu.
Now you are in the Meeting tab. Scroll down until you find the Polling option nearly halfway down the screen - In Meeting (Basic) section. Toggle the slider to the right to enable polling.
With Polling enabled, it’s time to create your poll.
Create a Poll
In the NDSU.Zoom.us web portal, Click the More (nine-dot) icon near your profile icon, then select Survey from the menu.
After clicking the Survey option, a new window will open. In the window that appears, select Poll or quiz, then select Create.
The Add A Poll window will appear. The first step is to give your poll a name and decide if the answers will be anonymous or not. This means that when you see the results, you’ll only see that a Guest answered the question instead of the actual user.
Next, type your question (within 255 characters), select if it will be the single or multiple-choice answer, then type the available answers. You can have up to 10 answers for each question.
Note: Ideas on the type of polls to use in class as meetings – 3 Ways to Use Polls in Meetings
Once the poll is created successfully, it will appear as shown below.
When a Poll has been saved, you always have the opportunity to edit the existing one and add a new poll.
You can create up to 50 polls in Zoom with a max of 10 questions for each poll.
Now that you’ve created your poll, you can launch it during the Zoom meeting.
Start Your Poll During the Zoom Meeting
During the meeting, click More on the meeting toolbar, then select Polls.
After selecting Polls from the More menu, the Polls/quizzes button will appear on the meeting toolbar, as shown below.
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 hosts can add or edit polls if the setting is enabled in the web portal and the host selects the option when scheduling the meeting.
Note: You must be logged in as the Host, Co-Host, or Alternative Host to start a Poll. More information on Zoom Meeting Roles
The Polls window will appear. Review the questions and answers, then select Launch.
You’ll be able to see the polling results in real time. Once everyone has voted, select “End Polling.”
You can either share the results of the poll with the attendees or relaunch the polling by clicking on the three-dot (More) menu.
View Poll Results
To view the poll results later, open the Zoom tool from your Blackboard course. On the first page that opens, locate your meeting and click View Meeting Report. You can then view the results from past meetings.
Poll Reports can be downloaded as CSV files. The file will display responses.
Surveys: Enabling, Creating, & Reading Reports
Enabling Surveys
- To enable Surveys, sign in to the NDSU.Zoom.us
- Click the More (nine-dot) icon near your profile icon, then select Survey from the menu
- Click on the Meeting tab
- Under Meeting (Basic), make sure Meeting Survey is enabled.
Creating Surveys
- In the NDSU.Zoom.us web portal, Click the More (nine-dot) icon near your profile icon, then select Survey from the menu.
- After clicking the Survey option, a new window will open. In the window that appears, select Survey, then select Create.
- Enter a name/title for your survey.
- Select the type of question you want to create. Zoom currently provides several question types, including:
- Single Choice
- Multiple Choice
- Rating Scale
- Long Answer
- Create question(s), add additional by clicking on the +Add Question at the bottom of the Create New Survey screen
- To make responses anonymous, click Settings in the top-right corner and check the Anonymous box.
- When you have finished creating the survey, click Save.
- The survey will automatically send a the survey to each participant after they leave the meeting.
Survey Reports
- Open the NDSU.Zoom.us portal and click your profile icon in the top-right corner.
- In the navigation panel on the left, click Reports
- Click the Usage Reports tab.
- Click Meeting and webinar history.
- Search by topic or meeting ID.
- Click the Generate detailed report icon on the right-hand side at the end of the meeting details.
- Click Survey Report.
The CSV file will be downloaded to your computer.