Polling in Webex
As the host of a meeting, you can use a poll to create and share questionnaires. Polls can be useful for gathering feedback, taking votes, or testing knowledge.
First, make sure that the Polling panel is available. ‘Polling’ needs to be in the Current Panels box which should be a default for Cortland accounts, but you should make sure.
PC:
View > Panels > Manage Panels
Select Polling > Add > OK
Mac:
View > Panels > Manage Panels
Select Polling > Add > OK
Creating a Poll
You can create a poll while in a meeting, but it is probably easiest to create your polls in advance
Creating a Poll in Advance
- Open a Personal Room meeting either by navigating to sunycortland.webex.com, logging in and starting a meeting or by choosing Start a Meeting in the Webex app.
Or
2. To display the polling panel, choose the More Options button (three dots) from the menu at the bottom your screen and select Polling from the menu.
This will open the Polling panel on the right side of your Webex window.
3. In the Question Type field select the down arrow to choose which sort of question you would like to create
4. Select the New button to add a question
5. Enter the text of the poll question in the Poll Question field
6. Select the Add button in the Answer section
7. Then enter the answer in the field that opens up under the question
8. After entering each answer select the Add button again to add another possible answer
9. When the poll question is finished it may look like this
10. Select the Type of question and the New button to add another question. Repeat as necessary.
11. To save the poll select the Save button at the top of the Polling panel
12. Your File Manager will open. Save the poll with a name and in a location that is easily retrievable. The poll will be saved with a .atp file extension
Creating a Poll during a meeting
1. If you are the host of a meeting, while the meeting is going on, you can select the More Options button and choose the Polling button from the menu.
This will open the Polling panel on the right side of your Webex window.
2. In the Question Type field select the down arrow to choose which sort of question you would like to create
3. Select the New button to add a question
4. Enter the text of the poll question in the Poll Question field
5. Select the Add button in the Answer section
6. Then enter the answer in the field that opens up under the question
7. After entering each answer select the Add button again to add another possible answer
8. Select the Type of question and the New button to add another question. Repeat as necessary.
Open the Poll
1. Select the More Options button and choose Polling to open the Polling panel if it isn’t already open.
2. If you have created the poll in advance choose the Files button from the top of the Polling panel
3. Retrieve your saved poll file using your file manager
4. If you have created your poll during the meeting or in advance the poll will now be shown in the polling panel on the host’s screen.
5. The default length of the poll is 5 minutes. Select the Options button at the bottom of the polling panel to increase or decrease the length of the poll and to choose to display a timer or not.
6. If the host would like individual poll results to be tallied, select the Record individual responses box
7. Select the Open Poll button to send the poll to all the participants of the meeting
8. While the poll is open the host will see this screen
The host will be able to see the participants responses in real time. When 100% (or an appropriate number of responses has been reached) they can choose the Close Poll button to close the poll.
The poll will close automatically after 5 minutes or the time limit chosen.
9. Participants will see the poll, make a selection, and choose Submit
Polling Results
Sharing
The host of the meeting can choose to share the results of the poll with meeting participants.
1. They can select the Poll results checkbox and choose Apply, to share total results with all participants
Participants will see this:
If the Record Individual Responses box was checked before the poll was opened, the host can then choose to share the poll results as above or they can share the individual results with all participants.
2. After the poll is closed the host will see these options
3. If Poll results is checked the participants will see the poll results above
4. If Individual results is checked, a shared browser tab will open with the results of the poll, where the names and responses of all the participants are visible.
Saving
To save the poll results
1. Select the Save button at the top of the polling panel
2. A Save Poll Results As dialog box will open
3. Change the name of the file
4. Change the type of file to either Individual or Group result.
Or
1. Select the New Poll button at the bottom of the polling panel
2. A dialog box will open asking if you want to save the polling results
If you choose yes, the dialog box above will open. If you choose No, the polling results will not be saved.