Conducting polls in meetings

When enabled, hosts can create poll questions for meetings. You can launch the poll during your meeting and gather responses from your participants. Hosts have the option to download a polling report after the meeting. Polls can be conducted anonymously if you prefer not to collect participant information with the results.

Polling reports contain full details of the results, such as each participant's answers and submission times. These reports are available after the meeting by default, with an option to access them during the live session.

In addition to polls, hosts can create and launch quizzes, which allow you to set correct answers.

Creating polls or quizzes in a webinar is also possible.

Requirements for conducting polls in meetings

• Host user type must be Licensed
• Meeting polling enabled
• Zoom desktop app for Windows, macOS, or Linux: Global minimum version or higher
• Zoom mobile app for Android or iOS: Global minimum version or higher
  Note: Users on the iOS or Android mobile app can participate in polling, but hosts need to be using the desktop app to manage the polls.
• Zoom web app
• Zoom Rooms version 6.1.0 or higher
  Note: The limitations of polling in Zoom Rooms differ from other platforms, please see our article.
• The meeting must be either a scheduled meeting, or an instant meeting using your Personal Meeting ID

Limitations of meeting polls

• By default, only the original meeting host can edit or add polls during a meeting. If the host or co-host role is transferred to another user, that user will only be able to launch polls already created. Alternative hosts can add or edit polls if the setting is enabled in the web portal and the host selects the option when scheduling a meeting.
• All meeting participants must be on the supported version or higher, or they will not be able to see or participate in a poll. If unable to update to the minimum version, we recommend joining through the Zoom web app.
• You can create a maximum of 100 polls for a single meeting, with each poll having a maximum of 100 questions.
• If a poll is relaunched in a meeting, the poll report will only display the last poll occurrence. If you know you will need to launch the same poll twice and want both sets of data, consider creating a second poll with the same questions as the original to avoid re-launching.

How to create a standard poll for a meeting

Hosts can create polling questions before or during a live meeting. During the meeting, all questions under a single poll will be asked when launched. You can create additional polls to ask questions at different times during the meeting.

Create a poll before a meeting

1. Sign in to the Zoom web portal.
2. In the navigation menu, click Meetings.
3. Click the name of the meeting you want to add a poll to or click Schedule a Meeting to schedule a new meeting.
4. If you are editing an existing meeting, click the Polls/Quizzes tab. If you are scheduling a new meeting, click Save, then click the Polls/Quizzes tab.
5. Click + Create.
6. Click the title Untitled Poll... to give the poll a name.
7. Review the question types and configuration options, then select the question type for the first question.
8. (Optional) For single choice question types, click the Create breakout rooms toggle if you want to enable breakout room creation based on poll results.
9. (Optional) Click + Add Question to add another question to the poll.
10. (Optional) Click gear icon at the top right to configure the following options:
    • Require answers to be anonymous
11. (Optional) Click the preview icon to see a preview.
12. (Optional) Click Save to allow the poll to be started during meetings.

Create a poll during a meeting

1. Sign in to the Zoom desktop app.
2. Start a meeting as the host.
3. In the meeting controls toolbar, click Polls/quizzes .
   Note: If you don't see this option, you may have to click More, then click Polls/quizzes.
4. Do one of the following:
   • If there are no polls created yet, click Create.
   • If there are existing polls but you want to create a new one, in the top-right corner, click the plus icon .
5. Click the title Untitled Poll... to give the poll a name.
6. Review the question types and configuration options, then click the arrow to the right of the question title to select the question type.
7. (Optional) For single choice question types, click the Create breakout rooms toggle if you want to enable breakout room creation based on poll results.
8. (Optional) Click + Add Question to add another question to the poll.
9. (Optional) Click the ellipses at the bottom left of the creation window, then click Settings to configure the following options:
   • Make it a quiz
   • Require answers to be anonymous
10. (Optional) Click Save, then click Save as meeting poll to use it for only this meeting, or Save to Library to use it for additional meetings.

How to use the Surveys & Polls library

You can manage a central library of polls for meetings.

How to launch a poll in a meeting

Polls are not immediately available to meeting participants, as the host needs to launch a poll for participants to respond to. Hosts can create polls before or during a meeting.

During the meeting, all questions under a single poll will be asked when launched. You can create additional polls to ask questions at different times during the meeting.

1. Start the scheduled Zoom meeting.
2. In the meeting controls, click Polls/quizzes .
3. In the Polls/quizzes window, click the name of the poll to open the details.
4. (Optional) Before launching, click the ellipses icon and then click Edit if you want to modify questions and answers to the poll, then click Save.
5. Click Launch.
   The participants in the meeting will now be prompted to answer the polling questions. The host will be able to see the results live.
6. Once you would like to stop the poll, click End poll.
7. (Optional) After ending the poll, click the ellipses icon  to access the following options:
   • Re-launch poll: Launches the poll again.
     Note: If a poll is relaunched in a meeting, the poll report will only display the last poll occurrence. If you know you will need to launch the same poll twice and want both sets of data, consider creating a second poll with the same questions as the original to avoid relaunching.
   • Download results: This will launch your default web browser so that you can download the entire poll report, which shows what each participant chose, instead of the percentages of each choice.
   • View results from browser: Launches your default web browser and displays the same polling results on the web page.
8. (Optional) Click Share Results to share the results with the participants in the meeting, then click Stop sharing when needed.