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Create a poll in the room

This article shows the room moderator how to create a poll for attendees in the room, and how to publish and save its results.

How to create a poll in the room​

  1. Click Actions.

  2. Choose Start a poll.

    The Actions menu with the Start a poll option

  3. Write your question in its box.

  4. Choose a Response Types option.

    The Polling panel with the question box and the response types

  5. Choose the response options you want:

    • You can turn on Allow multiple answers per respondent.
    • You can edit or delete the choices, or add a new one with Add item.
    • You can turn on Anonymous Poll so the voters' names do not show.

  6. Click Start Poll to show the poll to attendees.

    The response choices, the Add item button and the Start Poll button

    This is how attendees see the poll:

    The poll question window as attendees see it

  7. Click Publish poll to show the results to attendees.

    The live poll results and the Publish poll button

    This is how attendees see the results after you publish them:

    The poll results in Public Chat as attendees see them

Remove the poll results from the whiteboard​

Click the delete button in the whiteboard toolbar.

The poll results on the whiteboard and the delete button in the toolbar

Save the poll results​

The results of all polls show in Public Chat.

Click the three dots at the top of Public Chat, then choose:

  • Save: download all the Public Chat content as a file.
  • Copy: copy all the content.
  • Clear: clear all the content.

The three dots menu in Public Chat with Save, Copy and Clear

After you clear it, a message in Public Chat says that a moderator cleared the chat history.

The message that a moderator cleared the chat history