Polls

Polls help you involve people in decisions. Use polls to engage people, survey opinion, seek contributions, uncover information, identify priorities, vote on issues, approve documents, organize events and hold elections.

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Choose

Find the most popular option

Before making a decision, find which option(s) people care most about.

Choose helps you find the most popular option. Participants pick from a list — you can configure whether they select one or multiple options.

Write any details about the options in the details field, then enter the name of the option and click + to add.

Set the Minimum choices and Maximum choices a voter may choose. Leave the maximum choice as 1 for a single choice poll.

You can use the pencil icon alongside each option to add a meaning, or elaboration, of the option.

Advanced Settings

As well as the usual Poll Settings, Choose includes a setting:

Show options in random order - helpful if you are concerned the order of options may bias voting.

Voting

People invited to the poll can choose options and leave a reason for their choice.

Results

Results update as voting takes place.

Outcome

When the poll closes, state an Outcome and say what will happen next.

Score

Measure the level of support for each option

Score lets you measure the group's level of support for each option. Participants evaluate every option by assigning a score on a sliding scale, so you can see not just what people prefer, but by how much.

'Anonymous voting' and 'Shuffle options' settings are common for Score to reduce any voting bias.

Participants are asked to evaluate each option and assign a score by moving a slider along a scale.

Results are displayed graphically along with a table for each option showing total points, mean points and the number of voters.

Examples:

  • How would you rate your interest in these topics for the next meeting agenda?
  • How important are each of these principles to you?
  • Which speakers would you like at the next conference?

Allocate

Reveal priorities when there are trade-offs

Allocate helps you understand a group's priorities when there are trade-offs. Each participant gets a budget of points to spread across the options — they can go all-in on one option or distribute their points across several. Because the budget is limited, every point spent is a genuine signal of priority.

Participants are each given a set number of dots. You decide how many.

They place dots next to options presented that they like. Participants can place all their dots on a single option or spread over multiple options.

As participants allocate dots, they may exceed the dot budget limit and so are encouraged to consider how they spend their dots carefully.

Options with the most dots “win”. The results table provides additional data to help you analyse results.

  • % of points
  • Points
  • Mean
  • Voters

Examples:

  • Choose strategic priorities for the year ahead.
  • Choose agenda items for meeting, conference or General Assembly.
  • Allocate spend in a fixed budget.

Rank

Find the group's order of preference

Rank reveals the group's order of preference. Participants drag and drop the options to arrange them from most to least preferred, and results show the overall ranking. Particularly useful when you have a large number of options or are holding an election.

'Anonymous voting' and 'Shuffle options' settings are common for Rank to reduce any voting bias.

You can choose the number of votes people can give and rank.

Voters drag and drop options in order of preference (#1 being your most preferred option).

Results are showed in ranked order. The results table provides additional data to help you analyse results.

  • Rank
  • % of points
  • Points
  • Mean

Examples:

  • Electing directors to governance board.
  • What topics should we focus on at our next conference?