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. 

Requirements for conducting quizzes for meetings

• Pro, Business, Education, or Enterprise account to enable polling for meetings

• Account owner or admin privileges to enable polling for meetings

• Host privileges

• 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

• Zoom Web App

• Zoom Rooms for Conference Room for Windows or macOS: Global minimum version or higher
  Note: The limitations of polling in Zoom Rooms differ from other platforms.

• The meeting must be either a scheduled meeting, or an instant meeting using your Personal Meeting ID

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 Zoom Web App. 
• Users on the iOS or Android mobile app can participate in polling, but hosts need to be using the desktop app client to manage quizzes.
• 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 the desktop app that is lower than the global minimum version, you will be directed to the web portal. Hosts on the desktop app with the global minimum version or higher will be able to create and edit in the Polls/Quizzes window in the meeting.

After you create a quiz, you can manage it from Zoom Surveys in the web portal.

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

You can create a quiz in advance using Zoom Surveys.

Create a quiz during a meeting

1. Start the scheduled Zoom meeting as the host.

2. In the meeting controls, click the More icon , then click the Polls/Quizzes icon .

3. In the top-right corner, click the plus icon  to add more quizzes to the existing ones.

4. At the bottom-left of the creation window, click the ellipsis icon to access the following options:

   • Select the Make it a quiz checkbox to switch the poll to a quiz.

   • (Optional) Select the Require answers to be anonymous checkbox to let participants answer the quiz anonymously.

5. Click the Untitled Poll... title to give the quiz a name.

6. Click the pencil icon  to edit the first question.

7. Review the question types and configuration options, then click the arrow icon to the right of the question title to select the question type.

8. Click Set answer, select the correct answer, then click Done. 

9. (Optional) Customize your question with any of the following actions:

   Click the Required toggle to require participants to answer this question.

   • Click the Show as dropdown toggle to show answers in a drop-down list.

   • Click the Create breakout rooms toggle to enable breakout room creation based on poll results.

   • Click the picture icon  to upload an image for the question.
     The picture icon  will disappear after you upload an image.

10. (Optional) Click the ellipsis icon to access the following options:

    • Click Duplicate to create a copy of the question.

    • Click Delete to remove the question.

11. (Optional) Click + Add Question to add another question to the quiz.

12. Click Save to access the following options:

    • Click Save as meeting quiz to save the quiz for use within this meeting.
    • Click Save to Library to save the quiz for use within this meeting and manage it in Zoom Surveys for future 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 as the host.
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:
   • Click Edit to modify questions and answers to the quiz, then click Save.
   • Click Display questions in a random order to show questions and results in a random order.
   • Click Show one question at a time to show questions and results 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. (Optional) At the bottom of the poll window, click Get QR code to generate a QR code for the quiz, which you can share during your meeting.
7. Once you would like to stop the quiz, click End poll.
8. Click the ellipses icon to access the following options:
   • Click Re-launch poll to launch the quiz again.
     Note: If you relaunch a quiz 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.
   • Click Download results to 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.
   • Click View results from browser to launch your default web browser and displays the same polling results on the web page.
   • Click Display questions in a random order to show questions and results in a random order.
   • Click Show one question at a time to show questions and results one at a time.
9. Click Share Results to share the results with the participants in the meeting.
   • (Optional) If you want to display the quiz answers to participants, select the Show correct answers to all checkbox.
10. Click Stop Sharing when needed.