Enabling polling for webinars in zoom

For your webinars, you can create polling questions from a single choice selection to a multiple choice selection to enable you to poll your attendees. As well as creating basic polls, you can also create advanced polls, which will let you make choices based on matching, ranked order, short answers, and long answers. There are also advanced polls which can be used as quizzes by highlighting the correct answers to the questions in an advanced poll. In your webinar, you will have the opportunity to launch a poll, allowing you to gather the responses from your attendees during the event. After the polling session has been completed, you will be able to download the polling report that was generated. It is also possible to conduct polls anonymously if you don’t want to collect information about the attendees as a result of the poll.

This article covers:

• How to enable or disable polling for webinars
• How to use webinar polls

Prerequisites for enabling polling for webinars

• Pro, Business, Education, or Enterprise account
• Account owner or admin privileges

How to enable or disable polling for webinars

Account

You can enable webinar polling for your entire organization by following these steps:

1. The Zoom web portal can be accessed by administrators who have the privilege to modify the settings for their accounts by logging in.
2. The Account Settings can be found in the Account Management section of the navigation menu.
3. Click on the Meeting tab on the left side of the screen.
4. It is possible to enable or disable Webinar Polls/Quizzes in the Basic tab of the In Meeting window.
5. Upon the appearance of the verification dialog, click on Enable or Disable to verify that the changes have been made.
6. Click the check box to enable the following features, then click the Save button after selecting the check boxes.
7. Allow host to create advanced polls and quizzes
   
   Note: If you want this sub-setting to be locked at the account level, you can also click the lock icon on the top right of the screen. 
   • • Allow host to upload image for each question: In advanced polls/quizzes that hosts create, you can specify whether they should be allowed to upload images. It is important to note that changing this setting will affect both new advanced polls and existing advanced quizzes.
   • Allow alternative host to add or edit polls and quizzes: It is possible for a host to allow alternate hosts to add, edit, and download polls in a webinar when they schedule one with alternative hosts.
   • Allow users to manage saved polls and quizzes from “Webinars”: Create a central library of polls for your webinars so that users can manage them all from one location. Webinars in the Zoom web portal are now available with a Polls/Quizzes tab when Polls/Quizzes are enabled.
   • Require answers to be anonymous: It is possible for account owners or administrators to enforce anonymity in participant answers when they have control over the account.

8. (Optional) If you would like to prevent all users in your account from changing this setting, click on the lock icon and then click Lock to confirm this setting to prevent others from changing it as well.

Group

There are a few steps you can take to enable webinar polling for the entire group of members:

1. As a Zoom administrator, you have the ability to edit user groups within the Zoom web portal when logged in.
2. Click on User Management, then Groups from the navigation menu on the left.
3. On the left hand side of the screen, click the name of the applicable group.
4. Click on the Meeting tab on the left side of the screen.
5. It is possible to enable or disable Webinar Polls/Quizzes in the Basic tab of the In Meeting window.
6. You will need to click Enable or Disable to confirm the change if a verification dialog appears.
7. If you would like to enable the following features, select the check boxes, and then click the Save button
   • Allow host to create advanced polls and quizzes
     • Allow host to upload image for each question: In advanced polls/quizzes that hosts create, you can specify whether they should be allowed to upload images. In the event that you change the setting, your advanced polls/quizzes will be impacted as well as existing ones.
   • Allow alternative host to add or edit polls and quizzes: It is possible for a host to allow alternate hosts to add, edit, and download polls in a webinar when they schedule one with alternative hosts.
   • Allow users to manage saved polls and quizzes from “Webinars”: Organize a central library of polls that users can use during their webinars by allowing them to manage them. The Webinars section of the Zoom web portal is now equipped with a Polls/Quizzes tab when Polls/Quizzes are enabled.
   • Require answers to be anonymous: It is possible for account owners or administrators to enforce anonymity in participant answers when they have control over the account.
8. (This option can be turned on and off by clicking the lock icon, and then clicking Lock to confirm that all users in the group cannot change this setting.

User

For your own use, you may enable webinar polling using the following steps:

1. Zoom’s web portal can be accessed by signing in.

2. Choose Settings from the navigation menu on the left side of the screen.

3. Click on the Meeting tab on the left side of the screen.

4. There is a toggle under In Meeting (Basic) that will allow you to enable or disable the Webinar Polls/Quizzes.

5. Upon the appearance of the verification dialog, click on Enable or Disable to verify that the changes have been made.

   Note:

   You will need to contact your Zoom administrator if the option you are looking for is grayed out, which means it is either being blocked at the group or account level. 

6. (Optional) Check the boxes next to each feature you want to enable, and then click Save to save your changes

   • Allow host to create advanced polls and quizzes
     • Allow host to upload image for each question: In advanced polls/quizzes that hosts create, you can specify whether they should be allowed to upload images. In the event that you change the setting, your advanced polls/quizzes will be impacted as well as existing ones.
   • Allow alternative host to add or edit polls and quizzes:If you schedule a webinar with a second host, you can allow the second host to add, edit, and download polls from the webinar when it is scheduled.
   • Require answers to be anonymous: It is possible for account owners or administrators to enforce anonymity in participant answers when they have control over the account.

How to use webinar polls

The following steps can be taken once you have enabled webinar polls:

• Create simple webinar polls (The polling question type can be a single choice or a multiple choice question)
• Create advanced polls and quizzes (The test includes a variety of choice options, such as short answer, long answer, matching questions, ranked choice questions, as well as single and multiple choice questions)
• Review webinar reports

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