--- url: https://flip-chart.ru/knowledge-base/en/polls.md description: >- Add a poll to a flip from the facilitator tools: ask a question with two to ten answers, make it anonymous or a quiz if needed, and start it. Participants vote right on the card and see the results in percentages --- # How to run a poll on a flip A poll helps you quickly find out what participants think about a specific question. You ask a question and add answer options, start the poll, and participants choose an answer right on the card on the flip. You can make a poll anonymous, allow multiple answers or turn it into a quiz with a correct answer To vote for objects on a flip — stickers, shapes, images — use [voting](/en/voting), and to find out how much your team agrees with an idea, use an [opinion scale](/en/opinion-scale) ## Requirements * Participants with “Editing” access can add a poll and vote in it * The person who added the poll, a space admin and the flip owner can change, start and end the poll ## How to add a poll 1. On the panel in the top right corner, click **Facilitator tools** and select **Poll** If the browser window is narrow, these tools are in the **More** menu on the same panel ![The “Poll” item in the “Facilitator tools” menu](/images/kb/polls/1.png) 2. Click the spot on the flip where you want to place the poll A “Poll” card appears on the flip with a “Question or topic” field, two fields in the “Answers” section and a “Start poll” button. The cursor is already in the question field ![A new poll on a flip](/images/kb/polls/2.png) ## How to fill in the question and answers 1. Enter your question in the “Question or topic” field 2. Click the “Answer” field and enter the first option, then fill in the “Another answer” field 3. To add one more option, click **+** below the list of answers — when you hover over it, the “Add answer” tooltip appears The button is active when all answer fields are filled in When you hover over a field or type in it, icons appear in the field: * “Emoji” — insert an emoji into the question or answer text * “Attach image” — add a PNG, JPEG or WebP image to an answer. The image appears in the field as a thumbnail. To remove it, click the thumbnail — when you hover over it, the “Remove image” tooltip appears * the icon to the left of an answer — drag it to move the answer up or down The third and following answers have a trash icon, “Remove answer”. You can't remove the first two answers ![Icons in an answer field](/images/kb/polls/3.png) ## How to set up a poll Select the poll and click **Poll settings** in the menu above it. Turn on the options you need: * “Anonymous voting” — participants won't see who voted for which option * “Multiple answers” — participants can vote for more than one option * “Correct answer” — the poll becomes a quiz: after it ends, participants see the correct answer * “Space members only” — only space members can vote ![Poll settings](/images/kb/polls/4.png) You can change the settings until the poll starts. The **Poll settings** button is visible to those who can change the poll when a single poll is selected If “Correct answer” is on, a marker appears to the left of each answer. Click the marker next to the correct answer. If “Multiple answers” is also on, you can mark several correct answers; otherwise, only one. Only those who can change the poll see the markers ## How to start a poll 1. Click **Start poll** The button is inactive until the question and all answers are filled in, and in a quiz — until a correct answer is marked. If you click it earlier, the empty fields and the correct answer markers are highlighted in red Once the poll starts, you can't change the question, answers or settings. Labels with the poll options appear below the “Poll” heading: “Public” or “Anonymous”, “Single choice” or “Multiple choice”, plus “Quiz” and “Members only” if these settings are on ## How to vote 1. Choose an answer. If the poll allows multiple answers, select all the options that apply 2. Click **Submit** The button becomes active once at least one option is selected ![Voting in a poll](/images/kb/polls/5.png) After you submit, the results appear on the card. You can't change your vote To take a closer look at an image in an answer, click its thumbnail — the image opens in the viewer If the poll has “Space members only” on and you are not a space member, the card shows “Only space members can vote” instead of the **Submit** button ## How to end a poll Click **End for everyone** on the card. The button is visible to those who can change the poll Once the poll ends, no one can vote in it, and the results become visible to all participants of the flip ## How to view the results While the poll is running, the results are visible to those who have already voted. After it ends, they are visible to all participants of the flip For each answer, the card shows the share of votes in percent, a bar with that share and the number of votes. The answers you chose are marked with a check mark In a quiz, after the poll ends, the bars of the correct answers turn green. If you chose a correct answer, a green check mark appears next to it; if you chose a wrong one, a red cross In a public poll, there is an **Open results** button below the answers. Click it or the number of votes next to an answer — the “Results” window opens: it shows the question, the total number of votes and, for each answer, the percentage, the number of votes and the list of voters If the list of voters doesn't load, the message “Couldn't load the list of voters” appears — click **Try again** ![The poll “Results” window](/images/kb/polls/6.png) An anonymous poll has no “Open results” button: only the percentages and the number of votes are visible You can lock a poll like other elements — learn more in [Grouping, aligning and locking elements](/en/grouping-alignment-locking). In a locked poll, you can't change the question, answers or settings, but you can still vote in it You can find a poll on the flip with search or with the “Poll” type filter — learn more in [Search on a flip and filter by type](/en/search-and-selection-filter) ## Limitations * A poll has from 2 to 10 answers * A question can be up to 200 characters long, an answer — up to 100 characters * You can attach only PNG, JPEG or WebP images to an answer. If you try to attach a file in another format, the message “Only PNG, JPEG or WebP images can be attached” appears * Once a poll starts, you can't change it, and you can vote only once * Participants with “View” and “Commenting” access see the poll but can't vote * While a [voting](/en/voting) is running on the flip, polls are unavailable — the message “Polls are unavailable during a voting session” appears * If the flip is zoomed out a lot and the poll looks small, you can't vote in it or change it — zoom in on the poll * You can't add a poll on a phone: there is no “Poll” item in the menu