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

Limitations of meeting polls

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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:
  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:
  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:
  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:
  8. (Optional) Click Share Results to share the results with the participants in the meeting, then click Stop sharing when needed.