Important:
- When you create a poll in a live stream, it’s automatically available to both meeting participants and live stream participants. Hosts can't disable polls for live stream users.
- You can't create, but can respond to polls on mobile devices.
Important:Polling in Google Meet is available to these Google Workspace editions:
- Essentials
- Business Standard
- Business Plus
- Enterprise Starter
- Enterprise Essentials
- Enterprise Standard
- Enterprise Plus
- Education Plus
- Teaching and Learning Upgrade
- G Suite Business
- Nonprofits
- Workspace Individual Subscriber
Tip: Workspace Admins can switch this feature on or off for their entire organization .
For meeting moderators:
As a meeting moderator, you can create polls for participants to vote on. After the meeting, the moderator is automatically emailed a report of the poll results. The report contains names and answers of the participants. Participant names aren't shared in the case of anonymous polls.
Anyone who schedules or starts a meeting will be the meeting host. If you transfer or schedule a meeting on someone else's calendar, the other person could become the meeting host . By default, there is only one meeting host per meeting but you can add up to 25 co-hosts once inside the meeting.
Create a poll
- In a meeting, at the bottom right, click Activities click Polls.
- Click Start a poll.
- Enter a question and add options for the poll.
- Tip:You can let users respond anonymously to Polls. Before you save or launch your poll, turn on Responses appear without names .
- Choose one:
- To post your poll, click Launch.
- To save your poll so you can launch it later, click Save.
Tip:Polls you save remain listed under Pollsfor the duration of the meeting. After the call ends, all polls are permanently deleted. Meeting moderators are emailed a polling report at the end of the meeting.
- After a poll is launched, to vote on your own poll, select one of the optionsclick Vote.
Moderate a poll
- In a meeting, at the bottom right, click Activitiesclick Polls.
- Optional:To let participants find a poll’s results, next to "Show everyone the results," click Switch on.
- Optional:To close a poll and not allow responses, click End the poll.
- Tip:Participants can still find the poll.
- To permanently delete a poll from your list of polls, click Delete.
- Tip:No one can find deleted polls.
Get a poll report
After a meeting, the moderator is emailed a report for any polls conducted in the meeting. The report includes the names and answers of the meeting participants.
- Open the poll report email.
- Click the report attachment.
For meeting participants:
As a meeting participant, you can submit a response for a poll.
You'll get a notification in the meeting when the moderator starts a poll. Be sure to submit your response before the poll or meeting ends.
Important:When you respond to a poll anonymously, details are hidden from:
- Other meeting participants
- The moderators
- Your Workspace Admin
Your response to a poll is shared in its entirety with Google. The poll is later anonymized or deleted, subject to our data retention policy .
- In a meeting, at the bottom right, click Activities click Polls.
- In the poll, select your response click Vote.
Tip:After you click Vote, you can’t change your response.