How can I poll my students with Zoom?
One effective way to get immediate student feedback is to poll your students during class. Zoom has a built-in polling tool you can use to pose questions to your students and get real-time feedback on their responses. To use Zoom polling, you must first enable it in your Zoom settings. You can then prepare poll questions in the Zoom meeting room in advance of the class session.
How to enable Polling for your Zoom account
Open your "Settings" page on tufts.zoom.us
- Log in at https://tufts.zoom.us/profile/setting
- Click on "In Meeting (Basic)"
- Scroll down to find the "Meeting Polls/Quizzes" setting and click the switch to enable
Now when you start a Zoom session as host you'll see the "Polls/Quizzes" button in the Zoom control toolbar.
You may have to look under the 'More' option within zoom to see Polls/Quizzes
How to Create poll questions in advance
Although it is possible to create questions "on the fly" during your Zoom sessions, we recommend setting them up ahead of time.
Head to tufts.zoom.us or the zoom app and Click Surveys
This is at tufts.zoom.us
This is the Zoom app
Click Create in the top right corner
Select Poll or then Create
Click the drop down menu to review question types
Select your question type
Fill out your Poll Question and Responses
- Give your poll a title
- NOTE: a "Poll" in Zoom can have multiple questions. Multiple questions will be shown simultaneously when the poll is launched.
- Enter the question prompt
- Click "+ Add a Question" to add more questions to the poll
- You can choose to toggle on "Create breakout rooms". This will sort attendees into breakout rooms based on which answer they select.
Want the question responses to be designated as correct? You must switch this from a Poll to a Quiz.
How to Switch from Poll to Quiz
In the top right corner, toggle on, Make it a quiz
After you write your question, click set answer
You cannot set answer until you have save the question.
Select the correct answer
When you are done click save
Polling sets can be accessed in any zoom meeting where you are the host. If you would like to share access to other follow the instructions below.
Share Polling Sets
Click the (...) at the end of the polling set you want to share
Select share to... you can then insert an @tufts.edu email address. They can then launch the polls in their zoom meetings.
How to launch polls during a Zoom meeting: Inside your zoom meeting, click Polls/quizzes
NOTE: You must be the host or co-host to have access to the Polling features.
Hover over the question set you want to run, Click Launch
The (...) will allow you to edit the polls if needed before you launch them.
View the poll responses as they come in
The top of the poll window will turn green when the question is launched and a timer will show how long the question has been upen. You can also see how students have responded on the chart.
Click "End Poll" to close the question.
Share the poll results with your students
If you want your students to see how they responded, click "Share Results".
Close the poll or launch another
If you want to end the poll, click the red "close" button in the upper left-hand corner.
If you want share another poll, click the Polling button to open the list of polls.