Kinds of polls
Prepare a poll
1
Start a poll
On the meeting page or in the live view, click Prepare poll in the Polls block.
2
Ask the question
Enter the Question and choose the kind of Answers. For a choice poll, write the options;
for a scale, set the lowest and highest value.
3
Decide who votes
Under Who may vote, choose Everyone invited or Only those present. Only those present
means people marked present or partly present in the live view.
4
Choose anonymous or named
Turn on Anonymous if nobody should see who voted what. You cannot change this once voting has
started.
5
Set a deadline (optional)
With a deadline, voting ends by itself at that time. Without one, it runs until someone closes
it or the meeting ends.
6
Save
Click Prepare poll. The poll is a Draft: only the people who manage polls see it, and you
can still edit or delete it.
Run the vote
- Click Open voting on the draft. The meeting must be planned or running.
- Participants pick their answer and click Vote. They can change it with Change vote until the poll closes. The poll shows how many of the eligible people have voted.
- Click Close voting. The result appears for everyone with a bar per answer. A named poll also lists who chose what.
Record the result as a decision
While the meeting runs, a closed poll shows Record as decision. It opens the decision form with the question as title and the result as description. Adjust the wording, add who decided, and click Record decision. The decision appears in the meeting’s decisions and in the decision register, and the poll shows Recorded as a decision. Each result can be recorded once.Anonymous polls
In an anonymous poll, nobody can see who voted what: not the organizers, not administrators. While voting runs, Collabase only knows enough to let each person change their own vote. Closing the poll removes that link for good.Next steps
Outcomes and decisions
Record what the meeting settled and find decisions in the register.
Polls API
Prepare, open and close polls from another system.