Create Polls for a Zoom Meeting

Quick Links: | Prerequisites | Instructions | Troubleshooting | Next Steps |

Creating polls ahead of your Zoom meetings allows you to prepare engaging questions for your participants. You can create both polls (for gathering opinions) and quizzes (with correct answers) to enhance interaction during your meetings. Polls can be created through the Zoom web portal and will be available to launch during your scheduled meetings.

Prerequisites

Before creating polls, ensure you have:

  • Enabled polling in your Zoom account
  • A scheduled Zoom meeting (you cannot add polls to instant meetings that don't use your Personal Meeting ID)
  • Host permissions for the meeting (alternative hosts can create polls only if enabled in meeting settings)

Step-by-Step Instructions

To create polls for your meeting, do the following:

  1. Sign in to your Chico Zoom web portal at https://csuchico.zoom.us/
  2. Navigate to the Meetings tab
  3. Select your scheduled meeting by clicking on the meeting title (do not choose Edit)
    Screenshot showing a scheduled meeting in the Zoom meetings list
  4. Once the meeting details display, select the Polls/Quizzes tab at the top
  5. Select Create
    Screenshot showing the Create button in the Polls/Quizzes tab
  6. Optional: To create a quiz instead of a poll, select Make it a Quiz in the upper right corner
  7. Create one or more questions using the available question types
  8. If creating a quiz, select Set Answer and indicate the correct answers
  9. Select Save to store your poll

Now your poll is created and ready to launch during your meeting.

Troubleshooting

If you don't see a Polls/Quizzes tab, verify that polling is enabled in your account settings and that you're viewing a scheduled meeting.

If you cannot create advanced question types, ensure that Allow host to create advanced polls and quizzes is enabled in your account settings.

Alternative hosts can only create polls if this option was enabled when the meeting was scheduled.

Next Steps

After creating your polls, you can:

Still need help? If you run into problems or still need help, reach out to the Technology & Learning Program. 

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