Davidson-Davie Community College

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Enable Polls/Quizzes in your Settings
• Polls vs. Quizzes 
  • Polls
  • Quizzes
• Creating polls and quizzes
  • Before the meeting
  • During the meeting
• Conducting Polls and Quizzes
• Uses for Polls and Quizzes

In Zoom, you can conduct polls and quizzes. These can be created before or during the meeting depending on your needs. 

Enable Polls/Quizzes in your Settings

Open your Zoom portal to set up polls and quizzes. 

• Check your Settings to make sure you’ve enabled polls. Go to Settings and In Meeting (Basic).

• Scroll down to Meeting Polls/Quizzes and make sure the toggle is blue. 

Polls vs. Quizzes 

Polls

This is the most commonly used of the three types. Polls are intended to engage audiences by soliciting opinions and thoughts about topics being discussed. For example, you could use a poll to find out how much experience or background knowledge your students have about a topic. There are a number of question types that you can use and the audience’s answers can be displayed showing what percentage answered the question a certain way. 

Quizzes

Quizzes are different from polls in that you can assign correct answers to the questions. Students’ answers can be downloaded after the meeting as a poll report. Use this as a way to conduct low stakes formative assessments like knowledge checks or exit tickets. Be aware that students who aren’t using an updated version of Zoom might not be able to view these quizzes, so it’s not recommended that you use these as graded assessments. 

Creating polls and quizzes

Before the meeting

• Choose Surveys from the menu on the left side of the screen to open up the page where polls and quizzes are stored. You can also create surveys which are intended to solicit feedback from participants after the meeting. Once created, your polls and quizzes can be saved here for future use. 

• Click +Create to begin creating a quiz or poll. 

• Choose whether you are creating a poll/quiz or survey. Remember that surveys are meant for after the meeting and polls/quizzes are meant to be deployed during the meeting. 

• Now you’re ready to create your poll questions. 

1. As you write questions, they will appear on the left side of the screen under “Questions”. 

2. Click + Add question on the left side of the screen or underneath your current question to add questions to your poll.

3. Edit the title of the poll and the question.

4. Change the type of question.

   1. Single Choice (choose one answer)

   2. Multiple Option (choose multiple answers)

   3. Matching

   4. Rank Order

   5. Short Answer

   6. Long Answer

   7. Fill in the Blank

   8. Rating Scale

5. You have options to make the question required, change the format, or create breakout rooms based on participants’ answers.

6. Add an image, duplicate, or delete the question.

7. If you want to make the poll a quiz, click the toggle button. You will then be required to mark correct answers to the questions.

8. Settings - make responses anonymous.

9. Preview your questions.

10. Save when you’re finished.

During the meeting

If you didn’t create your poll/quiz before the meeting, you can also create them while the meeting is in progress. 

• While in your Zoom meeting, click Polls. 

• In the box that opens, click the plus (+) to create a new poll.

• You will have essentially the same options that you would if you had created the poll beforehand. Clicking on the three dots in the bottom left corner of the box will give you a checkbox for creating a quiz instead of a poll. 

• Once you click Save, any polls or quizzes that you create during the Zoom session will be saved to the Surveys page in your Zoom portal to be used again. 

Conducting Polls and Quizzes

Once you have your polls/quizzes created, you can deploy them to students during your meeting. 

• While in your Zoom meeting, click Polls to bring up the polls you’ve created or to create a poll. 

• Clicking on the three dots to the right of the poll/quiz will give you the following options: 

  • Edit

  • Duplicate

  • Delete

  • Display questions in a random order

  • Show questions one at a time

• Once you are ready, hover over the poll/quiz and click Launch when it appears.

• You will be able to see the questions, the number of people who have participated, the percentage of people who have chosen each answer, and the time that has passed.

• When enough time has passed or everyone has responded, click “End Poll” to stop accepting answers.

• Next, you can do the following depending on your needs:

  • Click “Back” at the top left to go back to the list of polls/quizzes without sharing the results.

  • Click “Share Results” to show participants the percentage of people who selected each answer.

  • Click the 3 dots at the bottom right of the box to bring up more options such as downloading the results.

• When you’re done, you can X out of the Polls box or keep it open to launch other polls. 

Uses for Polls and Quizzes

Uses for polls:

• Check-ins - Ex. How is your week going? What’s a success that you’ve had this week?

• Background Knowledge - Ex. Which of the following Victorian poets have you heard of before? List 2 facts you already know about CPR.

• Brainstorming - Ex. What are 5 events that you think would make good research topics for this essay?

• Discussion Starters - Ex. Which of the 5 theories that we’ve discussed do you relate to more?

Uses for quizzes:

• Knowledge checks - questions sprinkled throughout the lesson to check for understanding 

• Exit Tickets - one question at the end of the lesson about the big idea of the day to see if everybody got it