A poll is a way to ask a multiple choice question of other people in the community. When
you create a poll, you define the question and the possible answers. The poll appears on
the home page for the space it's created in. As people respond to the poll, results are
shown graphically as colored bars. (A person can vote only once in the poll.)
To create a poll:
- Navigate to the space where you want the poll to live.
- Under Actions, click Create a poll.
- Give the poll a name and description. The name will appear above the list of
options, so you should use it as the poll's question. An example might be, "Where
should we have the holiday party?". The description will appear on the page that
lists the poll's full results.
- Set when the poll will first be available to other community members. You can make
this now, or at a later date.
- Set when the poll should end. When the poll ends, it will stop being available for
responses and people won't be able to vote anymore. People will still be able to
view the poll's results.
- Set when the poll expires. When it expires, people will not be able to see either
the questions or the results.
- Create options. Here's where you add the choices. Example choices for the holiday
party poll might be, "In the office", "In a restaurant", "At someone's house", and
so on.