Webex Meeting - How to Start a Poll
As a Presenter or the Polling Coordinator, you can use a poll to create and share questionnaires. Polls can be useful for gathering feedback, taking votes, or testing knowledge.
How to Create a Poll
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Select View > Panels > Manage Panels to add the Polling panel to your meeting. |
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On the Manage Panels page, select Polling from the Available panels and click Add. Then, click OK. ![]() |
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Select the question type from the drop-down list in the Question section of the Polling panel.
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Click New to create a new question. |
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Type your question in the text box that appears and press Enter. In the text box that appears, type an answer to your question and press Enter. |
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(Optional) Repeat this process for as many questions and answers that you want to add. |
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Click Open Poll. |
Polling Quick Reference Tasks
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Open a poll questionnaire file to display the questionnaire on your Polling panel |
Select File > Open Poll Questions or select the Open |
Change the question type |
Windows: Select the question that you want to change and then select the new question type from the drop-down list. Click Change Type to enact the change. Mac: Select Click here to change question type which is displayed under each question. |
Edit a question or answer |
Select the question or answer, click the Edit |
Delete a question or answer |
Select the question or answer, and then select the Delete |
Rearrange questions or answers |
Select the question or answer, and then select the Move Up |
Delete an entire questionnaire |
Select Clear All at the bottom of the Polling panel. |
Display a timer during polling |
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Save a poll questionnaire |
Select File > Save > Poll Questions or select the Save |
Open a poll |
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Share poll results with participants |
In the Share with attendees section, check the Poll results check box or the Individual results check box, and then click Apply. |
Specify options for poll results |
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Save the results of a poll |
Select File > Save > Poll Results or select the Save Poll results can either be saved as a group or as individual attendees. Saving as a group anonymizes responders while saving as individual attendees identifies responders by name. Both group and individual attendees results can be saved to either text, or .txt, or comma-separated values, or .csv, files. |