First you need to set up the polls in your account on the Zoom website.
1. Make sure you have allowed polling in your meetings.
- Go to settings
- Under ‘In meeting (basic)’ ensure that polling is turned on
2. Next set up a poll for a specific meeting.
- Go to meetings
- Click on the meeting you want to add the poll to
- At the bottom of the screen, click ‘poll’ then click ‘add’
- Enter a title for the poll (e.g. ‘approval of minutes’)
- Type the question for the poll (e.g. we accept these minutes as a true record of the previous meeting)
- Decide whether you want people to be able to choose one answer only (single choice) or more than one answer (multiple choice)
- Add your possible responses to the poll (e.g. ‘accept’ and ‘don’t accept’)
- Save
3. You can add another question to the same poll (‘edit’ and then ‘add a question’) or you can add another poll for each separate question (click the ‘add’ button above the list of polls already created).
4. To launch the polls during the meeting, you need to be the host of the event.
- Click the poll button in the menu bar, this opens the poll management window
- Your first question is displayed on screen, to start the poll click ‘launch polling’
- You can see how many people have voted as the votes come in
- When you are ready to end the voting, click ‘end polling’
- If you wish, you can share the results on screen
- To launch another poll, click the drop down arrow in the black bar to select the one you want
5. Afterwards, you can download a report of how all the participants voted. This is available for one month after the date of the meeting.
- Sign in to your account on the Zoom website
- Go to account management, then select 'reports' from the list of options which drops down
- In the Usage Reports tab, click on 'meeting'
- Select 'Poll Report' in the report type
- Now find your meeting in the list (you can filter by date if you need to)
- Click 'generate' to create your report
- When the page reloads, click 'download' to open and/or save it
Read more about Polls on Zoom and find out more about downloading a poll report
