Using the Polling Feature in Zoom
You can make polls ahead of time, or live in the meeting.
Creating a poll before the meeting
Log into your Zoom account portal at lehigh.zoom.us and navigate to the Surveys page in the left hand menu.
From the Surveys page, click “create” in the top right corner.
Select which survey/poll type you would like to create:
Follow the on screen prompts to create your survey/poll
Creating a poll during the meeting
Click Polls/quizzes in the meeting controls
Click the blue plus sign in the top right corner to create a new poll
Select the question type and follow the on screen prompts
Once you are done creating all of the questions for the poll hit save.
Launching a poll
Start the scheduled Zoom meeting that has polling enabled.
Click Polls/quizzes in the meeting controls.
Select the poll you would like to launch.
Click Launch Poll.
Hover over the poll you want to use and 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.
Once you would like to stop the poll, click End Poll.
If you would like to share the results to the participants in the meeting, click Share Results.
Participants will then see the results of the polling questions.
Downloading a report of poll results
You can download a report of the poll results after the meeting.
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