Polls and Meeting Reports

The polling feature for meetings allows you to create single choice or multiple choice polling questions for your meetings. You will be able to launch the poll during your meeting and gather the responses from your attendees. You also have the ability to download a report of polling after the meeting. Polls can also be conducted anonymously, if you do not wish to collect participant information with the poll results.

NOTE: Only the original meeting host can edit or add polls during a meeting. If the host or co-host role is transferred to another user, that user will only be able to launch polls already created. You can create up to 25 polls for a single meeting, with each poll having up to 10 questions. If a poll is relaunched in a meeting, the poll report will only display the last poll occurrence. If you know you will need to launch the same poll twice and want both sets of data, consider creating a second poll with the same questions as the original to avoid re-launching.

Adding poll questions before the meeting

Sign in to the Zoom web portal.
Go to the Meetings page and click on your scheduled meeting (you may only add poll questions after you have scheduled the meeting).
Scroll to the bottom to find the Poll option.
Click Add to begin creating the poll.
Enter a title and your first question.
- (Optional) Click the Anonymous check box to make the poll anonymous, which will keep the participant's polling information anonymous in the meeting and in the reports.
- Select whether you want the question to be single choice (participants can only choose one answer) or multiple choice (participants can choose multiple answers).
Type in the answers to your question and click Save at the bottom.
If you would like to add a new question, click Add a Question to create a new question for that particular poll.

Adding poll questions during a meeting

Click Polls in the meeting controls.
Click Add a Question (desktop client) or Add a Poll (web client).
You will be redirected to a web page where you can add poll questions.
Click Add to begin creating the poll.
Enter a title and your first question.
- (Optional) Click the Anonymous check box to make the poll anonymous, which will keep the participant's polling information anonymous in the meeting and in the reports.
- In top-right corner, select whether you want the question to be Single Choice (participants can only choose one answer) or Multiple Choice (participants can choose multiple answers).
Type in the answers to your question and click Save at the bottom.
If you would like to add a new question, click Add a Question to create a new question for that particular poll.

Launching a poll during a meeting

Click Polls in the meeting controls.
Select the poll you would like to launch by title.
Click Launch Polling.
The participants in the meeting will now be prompted to answer the polling questions. The host will be able to see the results live.
Once you would like to stop the poll, click End Poll.
If you would like to share the results to the participants in the meeting, click Share Results.
Participants will then see the results of the polling questions.
(Optional) You can choose Re-launch to restart this poll.
Note: If a poll is relaunched in a meeting, the poll report will only display the last poll occurrence. If you know you will need to launch the same poll twice and want both sets of data, consider creating a second poll with the same questions as the original to avoid relaunching.

Downloading a report of poll results

You can download a report of the poll results after the meeting. When viewing a report of the poll results, take note of these things:

If registration was turned on and the poll was not anonymous, it will list the participants' names and email addresses.
If registration was not on, the polling report will show the profile names of unauthenticated participants and the names and email addresses of authenticated participants.
If the poll was anonymous, it will show "anonymous" for the participants' names and email addresses.

Generating reports after the meeting

Sign in to the Zoom web portal.
Select Reports.
In the Usage Reports tab, click Meeting.
A list of upcoming and previous meetings will be generated. You can search by time range or by meeting ID.
Next to Report Type, select Registration Report or Poll Report.
In the drop-down menu below Report Type, select one of these options:
Search by time range: Select a time range then click Search.
Search by meeting ID: Enter the meeting ID and click Search.
Click Generate in the last column. You can also use the check boxes to select multiple meeting then click Generate at the top.
Zoom will redirect you to the Report Queues tab where you can download the report as a CSV file.

Meeting Attendance Reports

Sign in to the Zoom web portal.
Select Reports.
In the Usage Reports tab, click Usage.
You may Search for a particular meeting by date.
Click on the blue number under Participants to pull up a window with details from your meeting, including a list of the participants and how long they were in the meeting.
Note: Participants may be listed more than once if they left and re-entered the meeting, or if there were breakout rooms.
You may Export this information as a CSV file.