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
- Sign in to your Zoom account.
- To begin a poll, you need to either: a) create a new meeting, OR b) go to an existing meeting under the “Meetings” tab.
- Scroll to the bottom of the meeting invitation, click “Add” to begin creating the poll.
- Title the poll, enter question type (single or multiple choice), and click “Save.”
LANCHING A POLL
- Click “Polling” in the bottom toolbar.
- Click “Launch Poll.”
- 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.
- When finished with the poll, click “End Poll.”
- (Optional) To share polling results with meeting participants, Click “Share Results.”
- Click “Stop Sharing” to stop sharing poll results with meeting participants.
Creating a poll during your meeting
- You can also create a poll by clicking Polling during the meeting.
- 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.
- After your have created your question, follow the same instructions for launching and sharing a pre-planned poll.
- First, to get back into the meeting currently running, click Join Now to be directed back to your class.
- Next, click the polling icon in the bottom toolbar, which should bring up the newly-created question. Click Launch Poll.
- When students finish answering, click End Poll.
- Finally, you will have the option to Share Results from the poll, or Re-launch the question.