Conducting quizzes in webinars

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

Hosts and co-hosts can launch quizzes, but only the host (or alternative host, if enabled) is able to create new quizzes. Hosts and co-hosts are also not able to vote in quizzes themselves. When launching the quiz, they can choose whether or not panelists are able to participate.

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 webinar by default but can also be made available during the live session. 

You can also create and launch polls. 

Creating polls or quizzes in meetings is also possible. 

This article covers: 

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

Prerequisites for conducting quizzes in webinars

• Zoom Webinars add-on
• Webinar 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
• Web client

*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 webinar quizzes

• By default, only the original webinar host can edit or add quizzes during a session. 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 for allow alternative hosts to add or edit polls when setting the alternative host.
• All webinar attendees 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 webinar, with each advanced quiz having a max of 50 questions. 
• If a quiz is relaunched in a webinar, 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 webinar

Quiz questions can be created in advance of the webinar or during a live session. If you create or edit a quiz during a live webinar 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 webinar. 

During the webinar, 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 webinar.

Create a quiz before a webinar

1. Sign in to the Zoom web portal.
2. In the navigation menu, click Webinar.
3. Click the name of the webinar you want to add a poll to or click the Schedule a Webinar button to schedule a new webinar.
4. If you are editing an existing webinar, scroll to the bottom of the page and click the Polls/Quizzes tab. If you are scheduling a new webinar, click Save, then scroll to the bottom of the page and 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 + Add Question to add another question to the quiz.
11. (Optional) Click gear icon at the top right to configure the following options:
    • Require answers to be anonymous
12. (Optional) Click the preview icon to see a preview.
13. (Optional) Click the ellipses icon at the top right to Save as draft.
14. (Optional) Click Save to allow the quiz to be started during webinars. 

Create a quiz during a webinar

1. Sign in to the Zoom desktop client.
2. Start a webinar as the host.
3. In the webinar 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 + Add Question to add another question to the quiz.
10. (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
11. (Optional) Click the ellipses at the bottom left of the creation window, then click Preview see a preview.
12. (Optional) Click Save to allow the quiz to be started during webinars. 

How to use the Surveys & Polls library

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

How to launch a quiz in a webinar

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

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

1. Start the scheduled webinar.
2. In the webinar 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. 
   • Allow Panelists to vote: Click this option to change the setting, which will take effect if you re-launch the quiz.
   • 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 webinar 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 webinar, 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 quiz results on the web page. 
   • Allow Panelists to vote: Click this option to change the setting, which will take effect if you re-launch the quiz.
   • 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 webinar. 
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.