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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[emmanuelmoreno]

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

[tanujasingh]

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

[alohuis]

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

[songmilee]

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

[topeski]

Seems like you cannot add Polls in Channels meetings. You have to create a meeting outside of the channel to add "Polls". Will there be an update where you can add Polls in your channel meetings?

[TylerStanczak]

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

[colinthomas]

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.

[k.c]

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!!!!

[markstone]

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 '+'!

[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!

[lonnielegaard]

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?

[alezander]

I dont have the optoin to add tabs + buton at all, only the Chat, Details and Scheduling Assistent. What can i Do?

[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

[engteach]

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?

[sirmium]

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

[LuciRocks]

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

[radzsing]

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

[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.

[tomdodsworth]

Hi there appears to only be a + to add the poll when the meeting isnt created in a channel is there anyway around this

[ntrovada]

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!