Conducting quizzes in meetings

The quizzes feature allows you to create questions with set answers for your meetings. You will be able to launch the quiz during your meeting and gather the responses from your participants. You also have the ability to download a report on the quiz after the meeting. Quizzes can also be conducted anonymously, if you do not wish to collect participant information with the quiz results.

Full details of the quiz results, such as each participant's answers and submission times, are contained in the polling reports, which are available after the meeting by default but can also be made available during the live session. 

You can also create and launch polls.  

Creating polls or quizzes in a webinar is also available. 

This article contains: 

• Limitations of quizzes
• How to create a quiz for a meeting
  • Create a quiz before a meeting
  • Create a quiz during a meeting
• How to use the Surveys & Polls library
• How to launch a quiz in a meeting

Prerequisites for conducting quizzes for meetings

• Host user type must be Licensed
• Meeting polling enabled
• Zoom desktop client for Windows, macOS, or Linux: Global minimum version or higher
• Zoom mobile app for Android or iOS: Global minimum version or higher
• Zoom Rooms version 5.12.0 or higher
  • The limitations of polling in Zoom Rooms differ from other platforms, please see our article. 
• Web client
• The meeting must be either a scheduled meeting, or an instant meeting using your Personal Meeting ID

*Note: Users on the iOS or Android mobile app can participate in polling, but hosts need to be using the desktop client to manage quizzes.

Limitations of quizzes

• By default, only the original meeting host can edit or add quizzes during a meeting. If the host or co-host role is transferred to another user, that user will only be able to launch quizzes already created. Alternative host can add or edit quizzes, but the host must enable the setting to allow alternative hosts to add or edit polls/quizzes when setting the alternative host. 
• All meeting participants must be on the supported version or higher, or they will not be able to see or participate in a quiz. If unable to update to the minimum version, we recommend joining through the web client. 
• You can create a max of 50 quizzes for a single meeting, with each quiz having a max of 50 questions. 
• If a quiz is relaunched in a meeting, the quiz report will only display the last quiz occurrence. If you know you will need to launch the same quiz twice and want both sets of data, consider creating a second quiz with the same questions as the original to avoid re-launching. 
• Uploaded images must be either PNG or JPEG format, and cannot exceed 2 MB. 

How to create a quiz for a meeting

Quiz questions can be created in advance of the meeting or during a live session. If you create or edit a quiz during a live meeting on version 5.12.9 and lower, you will be directed to the web portal. Hosts on desktop client 5.13.0 or higher will be able to create and edit in the Polls/Quizzes window in the meeting.

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

Create a quiz 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 quiz to or click the Schedule a Meeting button 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. A poll will be created by default. Click the toggle next to Make it a quiz at the top right to switch. 
7. Click the title Untitled Poll... to give the quiz a name.
8. Review the question types and configuration options, then select the question type for the first question.
9. Click Please set answer, select a correct answer, then click Done. 
10. (Optional) Click the Create Breakout Rooms toggle if you want to enable breakout room creation based on quiz results.
11. (Optional) Click + Add Question to add another question to the quiz.
12. (Optional) Click gear icon at the top right to configure the following options:
    • Require answers to be anonymous
13. (Optional) Click the preview icon to see a preview.
14. (Optional) Click the ellipses icon at the top right to Save as draft.
15. (Optional) Click Save to allow the quiz to be started during meetings. 

Create a quiz during a meeting

1. Sign in to the Zoom desktop client.
2. Start a meeting as the host.
3. In the meeting controls, click Polls/Quizzes .
4. Do one of the following:
   • Click Create if there are no quizzes created yet.
   • In the top-right corner, click the plus icon  to add more quizzes to the existing ones.
5. (Optional) A poll will be created by default. Click the ellipses at the bottom left of the creation window, then click the toggle next to Make it a quiz to switch. 
6. Click the title Untitled Poll... to give the quiz a name.
7. Review the question types and configuration options, then click the arrow to the right of the question title to select the question type.
8. Click Please set answer, select a correct answer, then click Done. 
9. (Optional) Click the Create Breakout Rooms toggle if you want to enable breakout room creation based on poll results.
10. (Optional) Click + Add Question to add another question to the quiz.
11. (Optional) Click the ellipses at the bottom left of the creation window, then click Settings to configure the following options:
    • Require answers to be anonymous
12. (Optional) Click the ellipses at the bottom left of the creation window, then click Preview see a preview.
13. (Optional) Click Save to allow the quiz to be started during meetings. 

How to use the Surveys & Polls library

You can manage a central library of polls and quizzes for meetings. 

How to launch a quiz in a meeting

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

During the meeting, all questions under a single quiz will be asked when launched. You can create additional quizzes 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 quiz to open the details.
4. (Optional) Before launching, click the ellipses icon  to access the following options:
   • Edit: Modify questions and answers to the quiz, then click Save. 
   • Display questions in a random order: Questions and the results will be shown in a random order. 
   • Show one question at a time: View of questions and their results are shown one at a time.
5. Click Launch.
   The participants in the meeting will now be prompted to answer the quiz questions. The host will be able to see the results live.
6. Once you would like to stop the quiz, click End Poll.
7. Click the ellipses icon  to access the following options:
   • Re-launch Poll: Launches the quiz again. 
     Note: If a quiz is relaunched in a meeting, the quiz report will only display the last quiz occurrence. If you know you will need to launch the same quiz twice and want both sets of data, consider creating a second quiz 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 quiz report, which shows what each participant chose, instead of the percentages of each choice.
     Note: To have this feature enabled, contact Zoom Support.
   • View Results from Browser: Launches your default web browser and displays the same polling results on the web page. 
   • Display questions in a random order: Questions and the results will be shown in a random order. 
   • Show one question at a time: View of questions and their results are shown one at a time. 
8. Click Share Results to share the results with the participants in the meeting. 
9. (Optional) Select the check box next to Show correct answers to all if you want to display the quiz answers to participants. 
10. Click Stop Sharing when needed.