Zoom Polling

You can use the built-in Polling feature in Zoom to do both ad-hoc and pre-planned polls/surveys which can also function as a voting system.

Link to Zoom's page for Polling feature:  open page

Creating a poll before your meeting  |  Creating a poll during your meeting

Creating a poll before your meeting

  1. Sign in to your Zoom account.
  2. To begin a poll, you need to either: a) create a new meeting, OR b) go to an existing meeting under the “Meetings” tab.
  3. Scroll to the bottom of the meeting invitation, click “Add” to begin creating the poll.

    Adding a poll in the meeting invitation
     
  4. Title the poll, enter question type (single or multiple choice), and click “Save.”

    The process for adding questions and saving a poll

LANCHING A POLL

  1. Click “Polling” in the bottom toolbar.

    the polling button in the toolbar
     
  2. Click “Launch Poll.”

    Launching a poll
     
  3. Participants in the meeting will be prompted to answer the polling questions. Once an answer has been submitted, the host will be able to see the live results.

    Live polling results
     
  4. When finished with the poll, click “End Poll.”
  5. (Optional) To share polling results with meeting participants, Click “Share Results.”

    The share results button
     
  6. Click “Stop Sharing” to stop sharing poll results with meeting participants.

    The stop sharing button for poll results

Creating a poll during your meeting

  1. You can also create a poll by clicking Polling during the meeting.

    The polling button in the meeting menu bar
     
  2. This will open up your default web browser where you can add additional polls or questions. Click “add a question” and then navigate to the page that will appear in your browser, where you can create a question to be used in your meeting.

    Adding a question

    Adding question and answer text
     
  3. After your have created your question, follow the same instructions for launching and sharing a pre-planned poll.
  4. First, to get back into the meeting currently running, click Join Now to be directed back to your class.

    Rejoining the meeting in progress from poll creation
     
  5. Next, click the polling icon in the bottom toolbar, which should bring up the newly-created question. Click Launch Poll.

    Launching the poll
     
  6. When students finish answering, click End Poll.

    Question in progress and ending the poll
     
  7. Finally, you will have the option to Share Results from the poll, or Re-launch the question.

    Sharing results or relaunching the poll