These instructions guide you through creating a poll for a Zoom meeting BEFORE the meeting begins.
NOTE: The person who creates the Zoom meeting is the only one who can create polls before a Zoom meeting begins. The person who creates the Zoom meeting and the polls is the only person who can launch the poll during the Zoom session.
1. In the myTC Portal, click Student, Faculty, or Employee Resources and under General Technology Resources, click TC Zoom.
myTC portal: my.tc.columbia.edu
2. Click Meetings in the menu in the left panel.
3. Click on the meeting that will use the poll.
4. Click the Polls/Quizzes tab at the top of the meeting page.
5. Click the + Create button.
6. Enter a title for your Poll.
7. Select your item type. Click on the arrow next to Single choice. A dropdown will appear with options. Click on the desired item type.
- Single Choice: Poll participants can select only one of the provided answers. Possible answers can be listed all at once or under a drop-down menu.
- Multiple Choice: Poll participants can select multiple of the provided answers.
- Matching: Poll participants can match prompts on the left side with answers on the right side. Order of prompts and answers can be adjusted as needed. Up to 9 prompts can be provided for each question, with the possible matches ranging between 2-9 options.
- Rank Order: Poll participants can rank each item based on the provided scale. Up to 10 items can be provided for each question, with the scale allowing a range of 2-7 options.
- Short Answer: Poll participants can respond with a short answer response. The minimum and maximum allowed characters for the response can be set.
- Long Answer: Poll participants can respond with a long answer response. The minimum and maximum allowed characters for the response can be set.
- Fill in the blank: Poll participants are presented with the statement and a blank, asking them to fill in the missing information based on the statement and other context provided. Multiple blanks can be added and each blank has its own answer box.
- Rating scale: Poll participants are given a statement or topic, then are given the opportunity to rate the topic on a given scale. The range of the scale can be adjusted from the default of 1-10, and the ends of the scale can be labeled to indicate what the scale is based on, for example Not likely to Extremely likely.
8. Type the stem of the question, and the choices.
8.1. To add additional choices, click +Add choice.
8.2. To remove a choice, click on the trashcan icon on the choice.
8.3. To require students to answer the question, click the Required switch so it turns blue.
9. To add a question to this poll, click the + Add a Question option.
This will not add a separate poll. This will add a section question that will be part of this poll.
10. When you have finished adding questions to your poll, click Save. Then, click Save as meeting poll. Then, click Save.
11. Your poll will be added to the meeting.
12. To add another poll, click +Create again and follow the same steps.
13. To edit or delete a poll, click on the three dots on the left side of the page. Click Edit or Delete as needed.
