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Create a Poll to share with attendees in a Teams meeting.
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Quick reference
Set up a Poll in a Teams Meeting
Create a Poll to share with attendees in a Teams Meeting.
When to use
We set up a poll in a Teams meeting whenever we want to get real-time feedback from meeting participants.
Instructions
Set up a Poll
We can use Forms to set up a poll in a Teams meeting.
- Click on the App Launcher.
- Click Teams.
- From any channel, click the Meet button to start a Teams Meeting.
- Name the meeting 'Team Meeting'.
- Click Join now.
- Click Chat to open the conversation pane.
- Click the three dots and click More apps.
- Search for Forms.
Now we can create our poll question.
- Type 'What type of working style do you prefer?'.
- Add the following options:
- Working from home.
- Working in the office.
- Hybrid.
- Other.
- Click the check box next to Record names of respondents.
- Click Preview.
- Click Send.
The form is now available in the Teams meeting and all participants can vote and submit their responses. It's a great way of getting instantaneous feedback.
- Select your response.
- Click Submit.
- 00:04 Another thing that we can do that really extends the capabilities of
- 00:09 Microsoft Forms is we can use forms to set up a poll within a team's meeting.
- 00:14 So we're going to jump back across to Teams.
- 00:17 If you remember, in the last lesson,
- 00:19 I showed you how you can share an existing form with your team.
- 00:22 But this time, we're going to start a Teams meeting and
- 00:25 I'm going to show you how you can post a poll on the fly.
- 00:28 So we're going to stick in the channel that we're in,
- 00:31 that is the general channel of the team MSFT.
- 00:34 And let's start a quick meeting by clicking the Meet button in the top
- 00:37 right-hand corner.
- 00:38 Now, I'll rename my meeting.
- 00:40 Let's just call this Team Meeting,
- 00:42 although we're not actually going to invite anybody to this meeting.
- 00:45 I'm going to keep my camera turned off so I don't confuse things.
- 00:49 Let's just click on Join now.
- 00:51 So now, effectively, I'm in a Teams meeting.
- 00:54 So I'm going to click on Chat,
- 00:55 that's going to show the conversation pane on the right-hand side.
- 01:00 So this is where we can come in and we can start to type messages and
- 01:04 share them with the rest of the meeting.
- 01:06 Now, it might be that there are, let's say, six or seven people in this meeting,
- 01:11 and I want to get their feedback on something.
- 01:13 So what I can do here is I can create a poll that anybody in this
- 01:18 meeting can respond to.
- 01:20 So if we go all the way down to the bottom where we have Type a new message,
- 01:24 underneath we have some icon.
- 01:26 If we click the three dots and go to More apps,
- 01:30 this is going to allow us to search for Forms.
- 01:33 There it is, let's choose it.
- 01:36 And now, I can create my poll question.
- 01:39 What type of working style do you prefer?
- 01:41 And I've given them four options, Working from home, Working in the office,
- 01:46 Hybrid, or Other.
- 01:47 I'm going to record the name of the respondents, and
- 01:49 then I'm going to click on Preview to see what that poll's going to look like.
- 01:53 So I'm happy with that.
- 01:54 Let's click on Send, and it's going to share that with everybody in the meeting.
- 02:00 So not only can you can see it in the meeting's chat,
- 02:03 you can also see that I also have some notifications related to the poll that
- 02:07 I've just created and it is being displayed for everybody in this meeting.
- 02:11 So this is a great way of getting instantaneous feedback.
- 02:16 So I'm going to choose my option, Working from home, click on Submit,
- 02:20 and I then immediately get to see the results of this poll.
- 02:25 And if we have other people responding at the same time,
- 02:27 this makes this a really nice interactive way to give your feedback.
- 02:31 So that is another way that you can work with the forms
- 02:36 application from within Microsoft Teams.
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