How to Add Poll to Zoom Webinar in Advance

Adding a poll to your Zoom webinar in advance can make your event more engaging and interactive.

Polls help you to gather feedback, understand your audience better, and keep participants involved throughout the presentation.

Whether you want to assess knowledge, gather opinions, or spark discussions, preparing your polls ahead of time can save you valuable moments during the live session.

In this guide, you’ll explore in the simple steps How to add poll to Zoom webinar in advance.

With just a few clicks, you can enhance the overall experience for your audience and ensure a smoother, more organized event.

Let’s get started!

Requirements For Poll In a Webinar

You must know some prerequisites before conducting a poll in a webinar that are given below:

1. Account: Polls featured are not for everyone, You must be a Pro user, Business, Education, or Enterprise account holder to avail of poll features.

2. Enabling: You must enable a poll option in Zoom.

3. Device Compatibility: The host as well as participants should use the desktop Zoom app or mobile app that is globe minimum version or higher.

• For Windows, Macs, or Linux Global minimum version or higher
• For Android or iOS Global minimum version or higher

4. Usage: Users can use mobile, But a host needs to use a desktop to manage polls.

Why You Should Use Polls in a Webinar

Polls play a vital role in a Zoom webinar for the host as well as participants to get the best out of it. Overall, polling offers useful insights that improve the experience for everyone involved.

There are several reasons, Why using a poll in a webinar is a better choice:

Engagement: Polling keeps the audience interested by allowing them to share their opinions in real-time.

Feedback: Poll responses help hosts understand audience thoughts, enabling them to adjust their presentation as needed.

Creating Content: Polls measure the knowledge and preferences, helping to customize content to the audience’s needs.

Encourages Discussion: Polling can spark conversations, prompting participants to share their thoughts and experiences.

Dynamic Experience: Incorporating polls makes the webinar more interactive and enjoyable for participants.

Valuable Insights: Polling provides useful information, enhancing the overall experience for everyone involved.

How to Add Poll to Zoom Webinar in Advance

By following these steps you can also launch a poll on the Zoom webinar in advance:

1. Open your Zoom web portal and sign in to your account.

2. Go to the navigation menu on the left side of the screen, Then click on Webinars.

3. If you have already an existing webinar tap on the name of the webinar or If you want to create a new one, click the Schedule a Webinar option to schedule a new webinar and Click on Save.

4. In both cases existing or new, Scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on the Polls/Quizzes tab.

5. Tap on + Create. 

6. Give a name to the poll by clicking Untiltle Poll.

7. Review the question types and configuration options, then Choose the question type for the first question.

(Optional) Tap on + Add Question to add more question to the poll. 

(Optional) Tap on gear icon at the top right to configure the following options:

Require answers to be anonymous

(Optional) Tap the preview icon to see a preview.

(Optional) Tap the ellipses icon at the top right side to Save as draft.

(Optional) Tap Save to allow the quiz to be started during webinars.

How to Create a Poll in Zoom During Webinar

1. Sign in with your Zoom credentials.

2. Start a webinar as the host.

3. In the bottom meeting controls, click the more option.

4. Then click on Polls/Quizzes.

4. Do one of the following:

• Click Create if polls have not already been created.
• To add more polls, tap the plus icon in the top right corner.

5. Click the Untitled poll, To set a poll name.

6. Review the question types and configuration options, then click the arrow to the right of the question title to select the question type.

(Optional) Tap + Add Question to add another question to the poll.

(Optional) Tap the ellipses at the bottom in the left side of the window, then click on Settings to configure the following options:

Require answers to be anonymous

(Optional) Tap the ellipses at the bottom in the left side of the window, then click on Preview to see a preview.

(Optional) Tap Save to allow the poll to be started during webinars.

How to Launch a Poll in Zoom Webinar

Polls are not immediately available to webinar participants, as the host needs to launch a poll for participants to respond to. Hosts can create polls before or during the webinar.

During the webinar, all questions under a single poll will be asked when launched. You can create additional polls to ask questions at different times during the webinar.

1. Start the scheduled webinar as Host.

2. View at the bottom right side webinar controls, click on Polls/Quizzes.

3. Click the poll name to see more details.

(Optional) Tap the ellipses icon  to access the following options:

1. Press Edit to modify questions and answers to the poll, then click on Save. 

2. Press Allow panelists to vote To choose whether panelists can participate in voting.

4. Click Launch.

(Now all the participants can give answers to the poll and the host can see the result live)

5. Click End Poll, Once you complete the answers.

6. Now Tap the ellipses icon  to see the following options:

Re-launch Poll: If you want to launches the poll again. 

Note: Remember if you launch the same poll again in the webinar, you will only see the last poll report. So it is better to start another poll on the same question to know the result of each survey. You may not get the results of both polls after relaunch.

Download Results: Of course you can download your poll report, the important thing is that you can see the answers of each participant rather than the percentage.

Note: You have to enabled this feature first, contact Zoom Support.

View Results from Browser: To view polls result,  You have to launches your default web browser. 

Allow Panelists to vote: Tap this option to change the setting, To choose whether panelists can participate in voting

7. If you want to share the poll result with the participants, Click on share results. Then tap on Stop Sharing.

Limitations of Poll in Webinar

Some limitations are also there that you must know before launching a poll in a webinar:

1. Usually, only the original host of a webinar can create or edit the polls. If the host or co-host role is transferred to someone else, users can only launch polls that have already been made. However, alternative hosts can create or change polls if this option is enabled in the web portal and the host chooses it when scheduling the webinar.

2. You can create up to 50 polls in a webinar and each poll can have up to 10 questions.

3. If you re-launch a poll during a webinar, the report will only show the most recent results. If you want to use the same survey twice and keep both data sets, it’s a good idea to create a second poll with the same questions as the first one instead of relaunching it.

Conclusion

In this article, You have learned how to add poll to zoom webinar in advance So with the help of this feature you will understand your audience more deeply and insightfully. According to gather information, you can make a powerful strategy and influence them with your content and presentation.