Enabling polling for meetings

To use the polling feature for meetings, it must be enabled at either the account, group, or user level. The polling feature allows you to create single choice or multiple choice polling questions for your meetings. You can also create advanced polls, which allow for matching, ranked order, short answer, and long answer questions. Advanced polls can also be used as a quiz by specifying which answers are correct. You will be able to launch the poll during your meeting, and gather the responses from your participants. You can download a report of polling after the session concluded. Polls can be conducted anonymously, if you do not wish to collect participant information with the poll results.

This article contains: 

• How to enable or disable polling for meetings
• How to use meeting polls

Prerequisites for enabling polling for meetings

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

How to enable or disable polling for meetings

Account

To enable or disable meeting polling for all members of your organization:

1. Sign in to the Zoom web portal as an admin with the privilege to edit account settings.
2. In the navigation menu, click Account Management then Account Settings.
3. Click the Meeting tab.
4. Under In Meeting (Basic), click the Meeting Polls/Quizzes toggle to enable or disable it.
5. If a verification dialog appears, click Enable or Disable to verify the change.
6. (Optional) Select the check boxes to enable the follow features, then click Save.
   • Allow host to create advanced polls and quizzes
     Note: You can also click the lock icon to lock this sub-setting at the account level.
     • Allow host to upload image for each question: Choose if you want to allow hosts to upload images in advanced polls/quizzes they create. Changing this setting will impact new and existing advanced polls/quizzes.
   • Allow alternative host to add or edit polls and quizzes: When a host schedules a meeting with alternative hosts, they can allow the alternative hosts to add, edit, and download polls in a meeting.
   • Allow users to manage saved polls and quizzes from "Meetings": Allow users to manage a central library of polls for their meetings. When enabled, a Polls/Quizzes tab is added to Meetings in the Zoom web portal.

   • Require answers to be anonymous: Allows account owners or admins to enforce participant answers to always be anonymous.

   • Allow host to create breakout rooms from poll results: Allow the meeting host to create breakout rooms based on the participants’ poll answers. For example, the meeting host may want to split breakout rooms based on participants who share similar interests. Hosts can set a limit for how many participants are placed in each breakout room and move/exchange participants after launching the breakout rooms.
7. (Optional) To prevent all users in your account from changing this setting, click the lock icon , and then click Lock to confirm the setting.

Group

To enable or disable meeting polling for all members of a specific group:

1. Sign in to the Zoom web portal as an admin with the privilege to edit user groups.
2. In the navigation menu, click User Management then Groups.
3. Click the applicable group name from the list.
4. Click the Meeting tab.
5. Under In Meeting (Basic), click the Meeting Polls/Quizzes toggle to enable or disable it.
6. If a verification dialog appears, click Enable or Disable to verify the change.
7. (Optional) Select the check boxes to enable the follow features, then click Save.
   • Allow host to create advanced polls and quizzes
     • Allow host to upload image for each question: Choose if you want to allow hosts to upload images in advanced polls/quizzes they create. Changing this setting will impact new and existing advanced polls/quizzes.
   • Allow alternative host to add or edit polls and quizzes: When a host schedules a meeting with alternative hosts, they can allow the alternative hosts to add, edit, and download polls in a meeting.
   • Allow users to manage saved polls and quizzes from "Meetings": Allow users to manage a central library of polls for their meetings. When enabled, a Polls/Quizzes tab is added to Meetings in the Zoom web portal.
   • Require answers to be anonymous: Allows account owners or admins to enforce participant answers to always be anonymous.
   • Allow host to create breakout rooms from poll results: Allow the meeting host to create breakout rooms based on the participants’ poll answers. For example, the meeting host may want to split breakout rooms based on participants who share similar interests. Hosts can set a limit for how many participants are placed in each breakout room and move/exchange participants after launching the breakout rooms.
8. (Optional) To prevent all users in the group from changing this setting, click the lock icon , and then click Lock to confirm the setting.

User

To enable or disable meeting polling for your own use:

1. Sign in to the Zoom web portal.
2. In the navigation menu, click Settings.
3. Click the Meeting tab.
4. Under In Meeting (Basic), click the Meeting Polls/Quizzes toggle to enable or disable it.
5. If a verification dialog appears, click Enable or Disable to verify the change.
   Note: If the option is grayed out, it has been locked at either the group or account level, and you will need to contact your Zoom administrator.
6. (Optional) Select the check boxes to enable the follow features, then click Save.
   • Allow host to create advanced polls and quizzes
     • Allow host to upload image for each question: Choose if you want to allow hosts to upload images in advanced polls/quizzes they create. Changing this setting will impact new and existing advanced polls/quizzes.
   • Allow alternative host to add or edit polls and quizzes: When scheduling a meeting with alternative hosts, you can allow the alternative hosts to add, edit, and download polls in a meeting.
   • Require answers to be anonymous: Allows account owners or admins to enforce participant answers to always be anonymous.
   • Allow host to create breakout rooms from poll results: Allow the meeting host to create breakout rooms based on the participants’ poll answers. For example, the meeting host may want to split breakout rooms based on participants who share similar interests. Hosts can set a limit for how many participants are placed in each breakout room and move/exchange participants after launching the breakout rooms.

How to use meeting polls

After enabling meeting polls, you can do the following:

• Create simple meeting polls (includes single choice or multiple choice polling questions)
• Create advanced polls and quizzes (includes matching, ranked choice, short answer, and long answer options in addition to single and multiple choice questions)
• Review polling reports
• Create breakout rooms from poll results