How To Create A Polly Poll In Teams

Creating Pollys in Teams

Learn how to author polls in Microsoft Teams, create multiple-question pollys and the available polly settings and options.

Getting Started

If you haven't installed Polly to Microsoft Teams yet, learn how to do so in this quick and simple guide!

Here is a quick video guide on setting and sending your first polly:

Get instant feedback from your team using Polly in MS Teams

From where can I create a polly?

Pollys can be created by sending from chat or from the Polly tab.

If you haven't already, here's a quick video on Adding Polly to a Chat:

Add Polly to Teams Chat

Sending from chat

The quickest and easiest way to start a polly, is to start typing @polly and you'll see the option to either start a quick polly, or start an advanced polly with the Poll Builder.

The quick polly allows you to input the polly question and options directly in the chat, without opening the polly builder. You can use any of the following formats, if you decide not to click on the quick polly option (which pre-populates it for you):

@polly What should we order for lunch? pizza, sushi . In this example, the question needs to have a question mark, and the options should be comma separated
@polly What should we order for lunch? / pizza / sushi . In this example, the question and each poll option need to be separated by a forward slash
@polly "What should we order for lunch?" "pizza" "sushi" . In this example, the question and each option needs to be enclosed in double quotes

Begin by typing out the @pollycommand on chat, click on the suggestions tab that is prompted.
The authoring window will display a selection of options, including the use of templates. SelectingQuestion will take you to the window for creating a new polly, with the full list of options and settings.
From there select how you can select your question type, it's scheduling, delivery, anonymity and set the duration of how long the polly stays open for.
To create a multi-question polly, click on➕Add another questionto add more question to your existing polly.
Once you're all set, go ahead and click on Send Now!

With multi-question polly we have a maximum of 50 questions. You also have the option of making the question required. The default is all questions will be left optional.

You have multiple delivery and audience options, which include:

Making results viewable in real-time, only after the polly closes, or hidden from the audience
Making the polly anonymous or non-anonymous

✏️Note: The functionality of adding images to your options or creating image pollys is not currently available.

Polly Settings & Options

With the authoring experience in the tab or via the Polly message extension, you get more advanced options for your polly:

Anonymous
Results Visibility
Voting on Multiple Choices
Audience adding choices
Scheduling a polly
Recurring pollys
Adding Owners

🕵️Anonymous

By default, all pollys arenot anonymous. To make a polly anonymous, simply add an [anon] tag after you mention Polly.

👁️Results Visibility

The default setting is that results are displayed in real-time in channel. To hide results from the audience, select Hidden from Audience. This will hide all votes and comments, and only the sender will be able to see the results of the polly. You can also choose to share the results after the polly closes.

results visibility

☑️Voting on Multiple Choices

To allow the audience to vote on multiple choices, simply check the box below the question that says Allow multiple votes on this question. This will publish a polly letting users know that they can vote more than once.

➕Audience Adding Choices

You can choose to allow your audience to add choices to a poll or survey. You can do so by checking the box for ☑️Audience can add choices.

As the audience member, when you click ➕Add Choice, a dialog box will appear right below where you can submit your poll choice.

adding choice - teams

🕑Scheduling a Polly

By default, your polly is scheduled to send immediately. But if you wish, you can choose to schedule your polly to send in the future, as well as control when the polly closes.

From the Polly Builder, you'll need to click on the Send > Schedule button to bring up the ability to schedule a polly.

You can customize the date📅 to send the polly, as well as the time. You can choose from the date-picker (the drop-down). Once you have created the polly, it will send at your desired date/time. Until it sends, it will live in the Polly Results tab, if you need to delete the polly preemptively.

🔁Recurring Pollys

You can also configure your polly to recur in daily, weekly and monthly frequencies on certain days of the week. You can do this by clicking on Send>Schedulethen switch the toggle onRecurring.Continue with choosing your frequency from the drop down list and choose the days and time you'd want the polly to be sent on.

recurring polly teams

✏️Note:Reminders functionality is not available with sending pollys, you can however, create a link to your polly and share it with your colleagues in chat, email or text.

Available question types

Multiple choice
1-to-5
Agree/Disagree
Open-ended
Emoji polly
NPS

✏️Note:The character limit on options for ratings questions is 2,000 characters.

➕ Adding Owners

By adding Owners to your polly you are giving access to another person in your team to see/edit the polly just the way you can. This is a useful feature when you want to share your polly control with someone else so they can manage it on your behalf. Additionally, an Owner can be added at anytime whether the polly is open or closed.To do this:

Go the Team where the polly is shared
Click on Management Controls (i.e. 3 dots) > Owner
Type the team member name or press the downward pointing arrow. List of the team members who can be made owner will appear (video guide is below)
Click "Add User"