Polls are excellent ways to gauge your audience's understanding and enhance comprehension of the session material.They appear as full-screen for your attendees in the webinar room.
New as of 06/17/2024: Inside of the live room you can now add tags to polls
Poll questions are optional by default, but hosts can manually require attendees to submit an answer.
You can either pre-load polls in theManage Webinartab of the webinar dashboard or create them inside the live webinar room.Learn how to create and distribute polls to your attendees below.
How to Pre-load Polls
1.Log into your webinar and select theManage Webinartab.
2.Staying in this tab, scroll down and selectPre-Load Polls, located in the left-hand menu.
3.Select the blueCreate Pollbutton.
4.Skip toHow to Create a Pollfor further instructions on formatting and sending your poll to attendees.
How to Add Polls While inside the Webinar Room
1.Click thePolltab next to theQ&Apanel section.
2.Click theNew Pollbutton
How to Create a Poll
1.Whether you pre-load your poll or create it within the webinar room, the steps for structuring and distributing your poll to attendees are the same.Once you've selected New Poll, a pop-up will appear.
Begin by selecting your question format.Choose betweenMultiple Choice, NPS ScoreandShort Answer.
Note: When creating a poll,Present this poll to presenters and admins.andAllow attendees to skip this pollare automatically enabled on.
2.If you chooseMultiple ChoiceorShort Answer, type your question in the provided text box.If you chooseNPS Score, select the rating.
3.You can enter in a question for your attendees to answer, and enter in a separate question only used for reporting and CRM integrations.SelectShow a different question(Use original question above for reporting and CRM integration), and the question entered in the top box will show in reports/integrations while the bottom question will display for attendees to answer.Attendee's answers will be associated with both questions.
4.You can manage if attendees can select one answer for polls, or if they can select multiple answers.Use the drop down menu to select how many answers an attendee can select per poll.
5.Customize your poll with options to:
- Allow registrants to answer the poll on webinar landing page conversations:Registrants can answer the poll on the webinar landing page
- Present this poll to presenters and admins: Presenters and Admins can see and answer the poll
- Allow attendees to skip this poll: Give attendees the option to skip polls
- Display poll as slide out: The Poll will appear as a slide out in the bottom of the screen rather than popping up in the middle of the screen
- Add this poll in the recording player: Include this poll in On-Demand recordings for viewers to answer
- Open poll automatically:Have the poll be opened as soon as the webinar starts.
- Attendees can see a breakdown of poll results:allow attendees and presenters to see the results of the poll.This is automatically enabled ON.
Below are screenshots of theMultiple Choice,NPS ScoreandShort Answeroptions:
6. In the webinar room, your pre-loaded polls will appear under the Queue tab.
Presenters and admins can tag polls to better keep track of them.These tags can be customized with both text and color.Only presenters/admins will see these tags, allowing for better management of polls.You are also able to filter by the tags you apply.Add tags by clicking "add tag" below the poll question.Customize the tags by clicking the 3-dot menu at the top of the Polls panel.
To share a poll clickStart Polling.
7.Once you selectStart Polling, your poll question will appear in theOpentab where you will be able to view the results of the poll.Polls will appear as full-screen pop-ups to attendees.
8.If you selectedAdd To Queue, then your poll question will appear in theQueuedtab where you will be able to publish your poll by selectingStart Polling.
9.You can maximize your Polls so they are full screen for your attendees when they are open for polling (learn morehere.) Additionally, you can change the colors of your maximized polls.
10.Once an attendee answers the poll question, the poll response will appear in the Poll section (for everyone).
Attendee view after the poll has been created and once they have selected their answer.
11. ClickClose Pollto end the poll for your attendees!to view all closed polls click on theClosedtab.You can reopen the poll by clickingReopen.
12.If necessary, you can alsodelete the pollby clickingDelete.