Polls are a great way to engage your audience, learn more about them, and have them take part of the insights (if you want).
You can prepare polls before the webinar takes place, include them in a webinar template, or even create them live.
Below we will take you through:
Creating a poll
Launch a poll
Revealing the poll answers (if you want)
1. To create a poll
Polls live in the right sidebar within your webinar. Navigate there and press "polls". Then you can create your poll, either choosing poll type:
Multiple choice: you define the answer options, results displayed in pie chart.
Free text: attendees answer with free text, results are displayed as word wall.
Word-cloud: attendees answer with free text, results are displayed as word cloud.
2. To launch a poll
Once you created your poll, you can launch it. By pressing "launch".
When you launch it the poll will appear as a "pop-up" over the live video. So the attendees can easily select or type their response.
To close down the poll, attendees can simply press the (x) symbol or outside of the poll window, to continue watching the webinar. If they want to go back they can also find it in the "polls" tab to their right, if you still have the poll published.
3. To reveal poll answers (optional)
The polls answers are not visible by default for anyone except the hosts.
You can either:
(A) leave it as that, and just talk around the responses in the live video.
(B) or reveal the answers (the are anonymous for attendees of course), by pressing "Reveal answers".
The attendees can then see the same overall poll answers view like you.
4. See detailed insights on polls
As host, you can also learn more about how a certain person answered in a poll.
Either in the Excel you can download under "Access & registration" > "Statistics & registrants" > "Download":
Or through one of the many Univid webinar integrations, for example in HubSpot.
How to use polls
A best practice for webinar polls is to begin with an instruction, then launch the poll and finally discuss the result. Instruct (either by launching the poll after you have talked about a subject, making sure each attendee has the understanding of what the poll is all about.
Launch, at this stage it is important to wait a while for answers to come in, once results have started to show, start discussing it.