Enabling polling for meetings


To use the polling feature for meetings, it must be enabled at either the account, group, or user level. The polling feature allows you to create single choice or multiple choice polling questions for your meetings. You can also create advanced polls, which allow for matching, ranked order, short answer, and long answer questions. Advanced polls can also be used as a quiz by specifying which answers are correct. You will be able to launch the poll during your meeting, and gather the responses from your participants. You can download a report of polling after the session concluded. Polls can be conducted anonymously, if you do not wish to collect participant information with the poll results.

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Prerequisites for enabling polling for meetings

How to enable polling for meetings

Account

To enable or disable meeting polling for all members of your organization:

  1. Sign in to the Zoom web portal.
  2. Click Account Management then Account Settings.
  3. Click the Meeting tab.
  4. Under In Meeting (Basic), click the Meeting Polls/Quizzes toggle to enable or disable it.
  5. If a verification dialog appears, click Enable or Disable to verify the change.
  6. (Optional) Select the check boxes to enable the follow features:
    • Allow images uploaded in polls/quizzes to be displayed: Choose if you want to allow hosts to upload images in polls/quizzes they create. Changing this setting will impact new and existing polls/quizzes.
    • Allow alternative host to add or edit polls and quizzes: When a host schedules a meeting with alternative hosts, they can allow the alternative hosts to add, edit, and download polls in a meeting.

    • Require answers to be anonymous: Allows account owners or admins to enforce participant answers to always be anonymous.

    • Allow host to create breakout rooms from poll results: Allow the meeting host to create breakout rooms based on the participants’ poll answers. For example, the meeting host may want to split breakout rooms based on participants who share similar interests. Hosts can set a limit for how many participants are placed in each breakout room and move/exchange participants after launching the breakout rooms.
  7. (Optional) To prevent all users in your account from changing this setting, click the lock icon , and then click Lock to confirm the setting.

Group

To enable or disable meeting polling for all members of a specific group:

  1. Sign in to the Zoom web portal.
  2. Click User Management then Groups.
  3. Click the applicable group name from the list.
  4. Click the Meeting tab.
  5. Under In Meeting (Basic), click the Meeting Polls/Quizzes toggle to enable or disable it.
  6. If a verification dialog appears, click Enable or Disable to verify the change.
  7. (Optional) Select the check boxes to enable the follow features:
    • Allow images uploaded in polls/quizzes to be displayed: Choose if you want to allow hosts to upload images in polls/quizzes they create. Changing this setting will impact new and existing polls/quizzes.
    • Allow alternative host to add or edit polls and quizzes: When a host schedules a meeting with alternative hosts, they can allow the alternative hosts to add, edit, and download polls in a meeting.

    • Require answers to be anonymous: Allows account owners or admins to enforce participant answers to always be anonymous.

    • Allow host to create breakout rooms from poll results: Allow the meeting host to create breakout rooms based on the participants’ poll answers. For example, the meeting host may want to split breakout rooms based on participants who share similar interests. Hosts can set a limit for how many participants are placed in each breakout room and move/exchange participants after launching the breakout rooms.
  8. (Optional) To prevent all users in the group from changing this setting, click the lock icon , and then click Lock to confirm the setting.

User

To enable or disable meeting polling for your own use:

  1. Sign in to the Zoom web portal.
  2. In the navigation menu, click Settings.
  3. Click the Meeting tab.
  4. Under In Meeting (Basic), click the Meeting Polls/Quizzes toggle to enable or disable it.
  5. If a verification dialog appears, click Enable or Disable to verify the change.
    Note: If the option is grayed out, it has been locked at either the group or account level, and you will need to contact your Zoom administrator.
  6. (Optional) Select the check boxes to enable the follow features:
    • Allow images uploaded in polls/quizzes to be displayed: Choose if you want to allow hosts to upload images in polls/quizzes they create. Changing this setting will impact new and existing polls/quizzes.
    • Allow alternative host to add or edit polls and quizzes: When a host schedules a meeting with alternative hosts, they can allow the alternative hosts to add, edit, and download polls in a meeting.

    • Require answers to be anonymous: Allows account owners or admins to enforce participant answers to always be anonymous.

    • Allow host to create breakout rooms from poll results: Allow the meeting host to create breakout rooms based on the participants’ poll answers. For example, the meeting host may want to split breakout rooms based on participants who share similar interests. Hosts can set a limit for how many participants are placed in each breakout room and move/exchange participants after launching the breakout rooms.

How to use meeting polls

After enabling meeting polls, you can do the following: