How to Poll During Microsoft Teams Meeting

In this step-by-step tutorial, learn how you can create polls before or during your Microsoft Teams meeting. You can set it so attendees can respond before, during, or after the meeting on mobile, web, and desktop. When you launch your poll, it will pop up as a notification on the meeting screen and also appear in the meeting chat window. Attendees can also create ad-hoc polls during a meeting to get quick feedback on the spot.
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⌚ Timestamps
0:00 Introduction
0:33 Create poll before meeting
2:57 All Polls tab
3:21 Add another question
4:01 Reorganize polls on All Polls tab
4:30 Launch poll before meeting
4:57 Poll before meeting from attendee perspective
5:33 Configure poll admin permissions
7:01 Create poll during meeting
7:25 Polls interface during meeting
7:45 Launch poll during meeting
8:17 Close poll
8:28 Export results to Excel
9:11 Get back to results after a meeting
9:22 Get back to results on Microsoft Forms
10:05 Wrap up
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[@FBCNB]

Thanks Kevin

[@k.c1126]

Thanks, Kev... This saved my presentation this morning ... couldn't even remember how to open Polls ... lol ... but I was able to follow along with you and get my poll set up in time to use it during my meeting. You are the BEST!!!!

[@radzsing]

Thank you! I will definitely be adding this to my repertoire. Your videos are so easy to follow. Kudos to you.

[@colinthomas81]

Kevin's great! Quick, helpful ways to max out Microsoft Teams. As a trainer, polls/quizzes are a perfect tool to create engagement and assess learning as you go. I can't thank you enough, Kevin.

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[@sallyho146]

Do you know why excel poll results dont show the voter information?

[@szalaizsol]

i did not know this excellent feature! many thanks. This is what I have been searching for a while and have no idea. many thanks

[@TylerStanczak]

This is a great way to get live results real-time. Thanks for sharing this Kevin :)

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[@marrlfox]

A very useful and well-done video, as usual! Thank you!

[@KevinStratvert]

Thanks for the note Gerhard!

[@sirmium12]

I'm creating a poll for tonight's lesson.. Perfect timing Thank you very much indeed Kevin...

[@KevinStratvert]

Great timing!

[@MostafaEhab122]

Super helpful! Thank you for sharing, Kevin!

[@zainahamed3982]

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[@jenifagnanamanickam2027]

Thanks Kevin. Your explanations is very clear and helped me a lot.

[@findthetruth3021]

Please make videos on power apps. The way you explain is so clear and awesome. keep up the great job.

[@ambrosia417]

Thanks, Kevin! This was helpful. I'd also like to see creating polls with non-Microsoft apps (e.g. Polly, Survey Monkey, etc.)

[@k.c1126]

👍🏼👍🏼 I can still put a link to a form in the chat, I assume... But I like the immediacy of doing it this way .... Thanks, Kevin!

[@clitheroeant]

Thanks very much Kevin! This is a great overview of a very useful utility, now made much more functional. Incidentally, the way you promote your cookies, they had better be bloody good ;-)

[@jimmypretzel4785]

excellent video; very informative, easy to follow and succinct! Thanks for sharing :)

[@Luci29Rocks]

Thanks for the video! I just wonder whether you can set somewhere that everyone can vote only once and no more. Thanks

[@adriangerardlopez9801]

Thanks for this. I can use this functionality in class.

[@patsyleung6347]

Thanks for your sharing Kevin! Seems that meetings scheduled under specific team work differently when conducting synchronous or asynchronous polls using MS Forms.

[@68pmpope]

Great step-by-step tutorial.

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[@jacvanderspuy5618]

Hi Kevin - love your instructional videos on teams. Could you perhaps let me know whether I can set up a webinar with registration forms, polls', etc. for another person in my team who will be presenting and running the webinar from his computer? I have watched many of your videos and could not pick this up. Have a good day

[@tanujasingh7184]

I am not able to have forms on my teams during a meeting also without the meeting

[@chelitalittle7506]

Thank you for teaching me something new.

[@georgiaassumpcao2039]

Thanks for the video. It helped me a lot!

[@emmanuelmoreno4720]

How can i see that option + icon to add forms this is not showing up

[@Yensi-Leigh]

ok I figured it out. The way I was able to see the + sign was by adding attendees first, otherwise it wont show up. I hope this helps

[@karobeesultana8064]

Thanks a lot. The idea is just awesome

[@susanjohnston502]

This is a great, easy to follow video learning how to set up polls in Teams. Is there a way in Forms to do a poll with an open ended question that allows participants to type in their responses?

[@DJLAMBOROCKS]

Kevin, Great video as are all your videos! Q: Is there a way to add the "+" button in a meeting created via a channel? I can create the poll as you illustrated in your video directly from MS Calendar. When I go to MS Teams Calendar to add the MS Forms Poll tab in my class meetings created thru the MS Teams Channel, the "+" button is not available to add MS Forms Polls. Any suggestions? Again, thanks for all the great videos you have posted - amazing and easy to follow!

[@deborahlee7975]

I also don't have the "+" button on Teams. I still have no idea how to prepare polls prior to a Teams meeting - wish it wasn't this hard. So much time wasted. (I added Forms when I went to my calendar in Outlook, but I still can't even see it there...no idea where it went...*sigh)

[@robinguzauckas502]

Love this!

[@DPDAVE-rp8od]

Very nice explanation! Thanks!

[@raoppacheco7654]

Good video Kevin thanks for share, I have a question: Do you know how create attendance list for meetings in Teams?

[@tn3544]

Great video Kevin! Neck and neck with Zoom :)

[@ceejay4911]

Thanks Kevin 😀

[@brianchristiancoronado1688]

Hi Kevin, thanks for this tutorial, if I may ask is there any possibility that you link multiple MS form under one excel sheet....thanks

[@muralimohan71]

Thank you 😁👌

[@szalaizsol]

many thanks!

[@smit0380]

Very well done!

[@cirleneroquestromblad9753]

Amazing. Thank you very much.

[@lonnielegaard6929]

Hi Kevin, great video :-) 1 question....can you reuse the same pool every week in a recurring meeting or should you create a new poll every time?

[@karladupinet6429]

Same question

[@annaadezati8400]

Hi Kevin, thanks you for the video. I have a question, is it possible to create a poll template, to re use in another meeting? The idea is for example to ask a set of questions to customers and be able to analyze responses collected in a unique excel. Thank you

[@noobitronius]

Kevin, Great video. Do you know of there is a way to limit who can export the results?

[@spherocastillo8153]

Thanks for the vid! Learned a lot. Can you please add if you have some time, topic on how to limit multiple response and that when the participant voted, it automatically locks in his vote so that it can no longer be changed???? PLease....

[@iluvatar1]

Thanks for all your videos. In this particular topic, When I follow your instructions (go to the metting, select chat with participants, add a tab and forms) I do not get the options you show but instead I just get the option to create or use an existing form. So I cannot launch the polls later, or close them, etc. Maybe it is related with the "new experience" in ms teams?

[@mangalgupta5861]

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[@ashokfrancis2469]

Hi Kevin, Thanks for your video. It is useful. IS it possible to add two or three questions in one poll?

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[@hagenfalkenbach5694]

Well Done.. I am non native speaker and i would like to have much more practise in english - but i do understand it really good. And the presentation was also verry good and easy to catch. the only thing that you can improve if you want is: play a bit arround with the speed and the sound, as it sounds sometimes a bit monotone. this could increase the attraction to follow it. but this is for sure complaining on a verry high level. the information is the focus and that is great!

[@alohuis]

I don’t have the Forms button in my meeting. How do I get it?

[@bokenla1]

Love it! It was very useful to me

[@ayushkumargupta2893]

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[@lorenakademar5267]

Very interesting! Thank you

[@oyetolaemmanuel-ebikake1128]

Many thanks

[@arunimachatterjee6868]

Thanks .. good info 👍

[@Itangalo]

1:44: "Once gain, people can vote before, during or after a meeting, so it really should be clear when people can vote." Love it - made me laugh out loud in the room.

[@wafkt]

I was going to skip this video, because I thought I knew everything there was to know about using Forms for polls in meetings, but I was wrong. Leaned a few new things. Thanks.

[@richardfields3668]

Hi there, great video! I've created a Teams meeting in a shared mailbox. As this meeting isn't 'my' meeting, is it still possible to obtain editing rights so that I can prepare polls beforehand?

[@manyenaa946]

Great, thank you. But I want to know how you can limit meeting participants to only one response. Thank you.

[@akio6505]

Thanks. Do u get the same option also to limit 1 attempt only to submit a form?

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[@davidgardener7821]

Hi Kevin how do you get all the options in the meeting (whiteboard, polls, etc) from a meeting set up in the Teams Calendar. Currently I have use the Outlook calendar to set up a meeting and then go to the Teams calendar with all the options.

[@eloisabrook9513]

Thanks for the video. Once launched, everyone can start answering even ahead of the meeting right? Is there way to un-launch?

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[@KevinStratvert]

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[@i.b.7377]

Nice, thanks

[@heatherfeather2621]

We have tried Polly and Polleverywhere web services in Live Events. They have instant result graphics that are great. The free accounts only allow 25 responses in a month or meeting...so recurring cost exploded fast. They want subscriptions which we can't use in gov because of cloud based app security restriction. I hope MS continues to develop graphics in results for forms. Thanks for this.

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[@julienweber2094]

Hey @kevin - do you know how to allow the poll to be answer by guest? They can actually see the poll but cannot answer. While a form can be answer by people outside of your organization. Thanks a ton if you have a tip or workaround.

[@alejandraaraya2499]

Do you think this would be a good option for a live scavanger hunt (objects would be scattered through the presentation) or do you have a better option to carry my activity in a teams meeting?

[@michalsutto311]

Is there a way to create other than multiple choice questions - e.g. open text, rating, quizzes etc.?

[@KevinStratvert]

The poll currently only allows multiple choice questions. For other types, you have to create separately in Forms and then paste the Forms URL into the meeting. You can request additional polling functionality integrated into Teams here: microsoftteams.uservoice.com/

[@seyboudjibobachir4898]

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[@jannaali3]

hi dear, wonderful easy applicable video but unfortunately I do not have( + )in my meetings bar to add forms or poll. do you any suggestions to fix that (in the meeting bar I only have (chat details and scheduling assistant)

[@AJTravels365]

Can you use the polls you create over and over if you have multiple classes that cover the same material?

[@crazynames3143]

Hi , Please make videos about office 365 apps like yammer, delve , etc .. Amazing Videos btw thanks !!

[@patriciaakintan1014]

Hi thank for the video how do I design a form that has diff option ans each option has a duration

[@lumaduc]

Could you show how to setup polls in live events?

[@ntrovada09]

Is it possible to set a timer for people to take the poll ? For example, if I want to give them 10 seconds, is there a way to set that before I launch the poll? Thanks for the video! It was very helpful!

[@azmahamid]

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[@kvnlfvr]

When the meeting is created in a specific channel you won't have the "+" tab. (use standard forms bot instead - less parameters but effective) Do not fill the "add channel" element and you will have the option to add "Forms" tab. I hope this helps

[@j.hadley459]

I don't have the plus sign even when I create a new meeting from calendar, even before filling in anything including the channel. I just updated so what else can I try to fix this?

[@ashrafallam5226]

@@j.hadley459 @Kevin me too

[@sallyho146]

@kevin Le fevre - can we create a poll after the meeting?

[@shridharsm3405]

Hey Kevin, is it possible to prepare 10 questions before the meeting and can we launch the question one by one during while meeting is running???

[@renzokouken9781]

Awesome

[@engteach3395]

Hello, Kevin! I have a question. Why can't I add a new tab to my planned meeting (as you do it in the video)? I don't even have this feature (the plus symbol "+" is absent). What's wrong with my Teams application? Do the features available differ depending on the region the Teams application is used?

[@cynthiag_730]

Could I create a poll in a meeting I did not create? I sometimes help to host meetings, if I could create the questions ahead of time and launch the poll just before the end, that would be great!

[@swatijadhav6628]

Kevin Can you suggest how can I effectively conduct the lecture on Numericals ensuring all students are learning. Can you suggest any feature of MS team?

[@7478titahi]

Hi Kevin. I tried running a poll online however only two of four people had a Poll Tab. Is it something to do with whether they access Teams via the Web, or using an on board app? Any suggestions?

[@jasonuppenborn2902]

Think of running a class over MS Teams. I'm going to have the same surveys every time I run the class. Can I have an arsenal of surveys / survey templates and just add them to a meeting? Or do I have to manually create the surveys every time?

[@markstone4118]

Really useful function, but doesn't appear to be an option for me. When I click into a meeting I only have 'chat', 'details' and 'scheduling assistant' as options at the top of the page. There is no '+'!

[@drrob1983]

Video suggestion: taking a register of people attending teams / zoom meetings if you can’t see them all on screen easily or if people join late / leave early?

[@KevinStratvert]

Thanks for the suggestion! I've added to my list.

[@Ta3leemjo]

Hi Kevin! I don't have the add button on my calendar, what should I do to get it.

[@KevinStratvert]

I believe your admin needs to enable it.

[@joshuaebi]

@@KevinStratvert I guess that the above explanation will work only in the chat meetings. I do have the add button in my chatbox. I am able to create the poll during or before the meeting via chat box but I am unable to see the add button while creating a TEAMS invitation via a channel. Any idea on what could be the issue?

[@Lars365]

@@KevinStratvert I have the same issue. I am an admin but there are no such choice in the admin center for Teams, I´m afraid. The thing is that it works fine in a meeting that are scheduled with individual invitations but when you schedule a meeting in a Teams channel, there are no plus sign to press, to add the poll.

[@joshuaebi]

@@Lars365 Yep, if the meetings are scheduled via a teams channel, then I don't think a poll can be created !

[@Gavrill1985]

Hi, I think this will be in the version. I am using the free version with a 365 subscription and I don't have the calendar menu point and Microsoft Forms is not available when I click the "+" button.

[@n1cen1ce35]

Do you have to create the meeting invite from Teams to be able to create a poll before the meeting? I normally create Teams meeting invite from MS Outlook and I can't see/access the meeting details from Teams until during the meeting.

[@anitapaul398]

is there a way to get class feedback so that only I can view the results (as the teacher), I want all my students to answer to assess progress during the lesson, but I don't want them to see each others responses as they will copy :) Also, a way to track how many of the attendees have responded (real time)... Polly has this feature, but wondered if the poll function using forms could be adapted as well?

[@roxannettes]

Kevin, I own a Lenovo laptop and an iPad. I’m trying to follow your instructions. However under calendar after I create the meeting, I don’t have the top menú as you do. I have tried other ways, I can add a pool and I see it under the top menu under my Teams general meeting but I cannot make go live. I want an interactive poll as you did. Can you please help?

[@heatonmusic]

Is there a way to create a set of polls and use them in multiple different meetings without having to manually create them each time. Like a duplicate or copy to function?

[@songmilee9135]

1:08 to me, there is no option 'add tabs' or '+' button at all

[@HowTo-nr7uk]

Same here there is no + to add form. ☹️

[@LeeWeisgarber]

Me either using the app on a PC. I'm trying to add a poll in a scheduled recurring meeting within a channel.

[@hughwhite1052]

I have the same problem. Any one solved it?

[@sherylanneashton3845]

Same. Any update on this problem?

[@songmilee9135]

@@sherylanneashton3845 still not working :( i don't know it's a licensing problem or not. i have this version 1.3.00.33674

[@funkyhiccup]

I cannot find + icon in the detailed meeting view. In fact I only got chat/details/schedule assistant. You have meeting notes and whiteboard tabs, how do I add those extra tabs. Using Teams Ed plan, Poland, Teams ver. 1.3.00.30866

[@senthilkumaravel1830]

Nice. :)

[@JohnPowell6]

In the Mac client there is no "+" to add tabs in a meeting occurrence.

[@markstone4118]

I'm trying to do this on a PC and don't have the + either

[@rotdec]

Hi Kevin, is it possible to add a text question in real time?