Polling in Zoom

Tags Zoom Polling
  1. To use polling within Zoom, you must first enable the polling option within your Zoom account. Sign in to Zoom at https://colum.zoom.us with your Office 365 credentials or click on Zoom from within your Office 365 all applications list.
  2. Click on “Settings” to the left of your screen

     
  3. Find the option for polling and switch it on. You can now add polls to your schedule Zoom meetings.

     
  4. Click on a meeting that you have scheduled.

     
  5. Scroll to the bottom of the meeting settings and click “Add” to create a poll to use in this meeting.
  6. Enter a title for your poll.
  7. Add questions for your poll. They may be multiple choice, or single choice questions.
  8. Type in your questions and enter the possible answers.
  9. Add more questions if you want more than one question in your meeting poll.
  10. Click “Save” when you are finished added your poll questions.
  11. Your poll questions will now be available when you are ready to start your Zoom meeting.

     
  12. Once you have started your Zoom meeting, click on the “Polling” option when you are ready to begin to poll your meeting’s participants.

     
  13. Your poll that you created will now appear. Click “Launch Poll” to allow your participants to begin answering your poll questions.

     
  14. The polling results will now appear within your view. When you are ready to end the poll and view results, click “End Poll.”

     
  15. Click on “Share Results” to allow the participants of your meeting to view the results of the poll. You may also re-launch the poll if necessary.

     
  16. You may always refer back to the results of your meeting polls by clicking on the meeting within your “Previous meetings” tab within your zoom account.

     
  17. Scroll to the bottom of your page to view results of your meeting’s poll after the meeting has ended.
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