Start a poll in meetings or webinars (2024)

Open a poll questionnaire file to display the questionnaire on your Polling panel

Select File > Open Poll Questions, or click Open.

Change the question type

Windows: Select the question that you want to change and then select the new question type from the drop-down list. Click Change Type.

Mac: Select Click here to change question type, which displays under each question.

Edit a question or answer

Select the question or answer, click Edit, and then make your changes.

Delete a question or answer

Select the question or answer, then click Delete.

Rearrange questions or answers

Select the question or answer, then click Move Up or Move Down.

Delete an entire questionnaire

Click Clear All at the bottom of the Polling panel.

Display a timer during polling

1. Windows: Click Options at the bottom of your Polling panel.

   Mac: Click Options on the lower-right portion of the Polling panel.

2. Check the Display check box, type the length of time in the Alarm box, and then click OK.

   

Save a poll questionnaire

Select File > Save > Poll Questions, or click Save. Poll questionnaire filenames have an .atp extension.

Open a poll

Click Open Poll.

Close a poll

Click Close Poll.

Share poll results with participants

In the Share with attendees section, check the Poll results check box or the Individual results check box, and then click Apply.

Specify options for poll results

1. Windows: Click Options at the bottom of your Polling panel.

   Mac: Click Options on the lower-right portion of the Polling panel.

2. Check the one or both of the following and then click OK.

   

Save the results of a poll

You can save poll results during or after a meeting or webinar.

• Select File > Save > Poll Results or click Save.

• To save the results of multiple polls into a single file, select Save > All Poll Results.

  Save poll results either as a group or as individual attendees. Saving as a group anonymizes responders while saving as individual attendees identifies responders by name. You can save both group and individual attendees results to either text, or .txt.

You can save poll results when you end the meeting or webinar. Check Save meeting files, then check Poll Questions and specify the location where you want to save the files.

Download activity report for chat, Q&A, and polling

As the host, if you recorded the webinar, you can download the in-webinar activity report for Q&A, chat, and polling once the recording completes.

To download a report, sign in User Hub and click Calendar > Completed. Select your webinar. Click Activity, then click Download report next to the report you want.

If you use Slido for Q&A or polling, you can find that information in Slido's report.