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Polling Limitations

Forum|Forum|4 years ago
December 4, 2021
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Is there a way to set the number of choices selected in a multiple choice poll?

I am a professional parliamentarian, and I work with a number of groups that could use polls for online elections (such as for at large positions on Boards of Directors) if there was an option to limit the number of nominees for whom a member may vote. Example: there are five nominees for three slots. So on the "ballot" (poll), there are five names, and participants may vote for up to three.

Currently, it appears that the only options are to vote for one, or for as many as you want.

YaBoiB

Community Champion | Employee

Hello @Goodwiller ,

I believe that you may find what you are looking for with advanced polling in your settings for your host profile.

For more information please check out this support article surrounding advanced polling.

https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/4412332344973-Advanced-polling-and-quizzing-for-webinars

Brandon

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GoodwillerAuthor

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hm. It seems my reply didn't post. At any rate, I do not find a solution in Advanced Polling. I need a very specific feature that is customary in the available election services (such as Election Buddy) - which is to set the number of "multiple choices" allowable in a "multiple choice" question. Both regular and advanced polling allow multiple choices, but neither allows the host to set the maximum number of choices.

YaBoiB

Community Champion | Employee

@Goodwiller ,

I searched our marketplace.zoom.us for election buddy,

https://marketplace.zoom.us/search?q=election%20buddy

and apparently, we do not have an active integration with that software, but you may want to check their site and see if they do have any APIs that will allow you to integrate with Zoom. We have over 2000 integrations, but some software companies may work with Zoom but not actively market their software on the marketplace. I will continue to research this for you. It is a great topic and functionality that we should have if we do not already. Stay tuned, please!

Regards,

B!

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GoodwillerAuthor

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Still hoping for a solution here that will not require clients with limited internet ability to navigate between two separate apps in the middle of a meeting - not to mention the cost of third party voting options!

YaBoiB

Community Champion | Employee

Hello @Goodwiller ,

Ever since v5.7.3, we have had Zoom Apps where you can integrate from within your meeting client for users such as this.

I hope that this is helpful.

B!

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GoodwillerAuthor

Newcomer

Unfortunately, that does not help. It seems that one of the third-party providers would need to develop a relationship with Zoom to make that work - which could cut into their own fee structures for using them.

It just seems to me that Zoom could add this functionality into the existing advanced polling options pretty easily, and solve the problem. Is there any way to get that request in front of the Zoom tech and leadership staff to see if it can happen?

Greg

Bort

Employee

I encourage you to visit our Zoom Feedback form, which is the official way to share any feedback or feature requests with the Zoom team. Thanks!

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GoodwillerAuthor

Newcomer

Thank you. I will do that.

Greg

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ulrick_b

Newcomer

I am following this suggestion because I have the same problem with Credit Union AGM voting.

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aladmin

Newcomer

I'm looking for a way to limit a multiple choice poll to, say, two choices as well.

As far as I can see there's still no solution to this. Please show me I'm wrong!

YaBoiB

Community Champion | Employee

Hello @aladmin,

Yes, you can absolutely create a multiple choice poll with only two choices. I went ahead and created a test poll in my account to show you what it would look like. Let me know if there is anything more that I can help you with.

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aladmin

Newcomer

Ha! Not quite. Sure, you can make a multiple-choice poll with two choices but what people are trying to do is make a multiple-choice poll with say five choices and limit the number of responses to only two.

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Faculty_Friend

Newcomer

Yes, please, Zoom, can you figure out how to do this? I'm trying to use Zoom to poll a Committee reviewing Student applicants for a position. There are seven candidates for two spots, and 14 people voting. Currently, the Rank Order poll option is flawed, because it relies on the voter to limit themselves to the number of times they click in each column.

My column headers: First Choice, Second Choice, Third Choice

and my list of candidates is seven student names . . . .

As a voter I can click "First Choice" all seven times, for all seven candidates, and Zoom doesn't stop me from doing this.

How does this do any ranking at all?

I have to look elsewhere for other software to handle it. . .

But one day, this would be a nice feature, so please don't give up on us 🙂

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AnnyChen2

Employee

Hi, @Faculty_Friend

I’m the Product Manager for Zoom Forms.
We currently don’t have plans to support limiting the number of selections in multiple-choice questions. That said, I’ve captured this request and added it to our feature backlog.
We’ll continue gathering user feedback to help prioritize it and determine a potential release timeline.

Thanks again for sharing this with us!

YaBoiB

Community Champion | Employee

Hello @AnnyChen2

I am adding this request through support channels as well (SFDC). Just making you aware. Thank you for hoping on this post and offering your insight. Ill add you to the Zoom chat conversation internally.

YaBoiB

Community Champion | Employee

Hello All,

I am happy to report that the Zoom team is now taking this enhancement under review and will be considering it for a future release. I will let you all know here when I have any new information. You can also check in with our release notes section on support.zoom.com for more information regarding release management.

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GoodwillerAuthor

Newcomer

That is great news, YaBoiB. Thanks for your help!

Greg

YaBoiB

Community Champion | Employee

Hello @Goodwiller ,

Of course. I apologize for how long this took to get on the Zoom roadmap and for your patience and understanding. I will set a taste to check back in to this thread weekly to mark the progress on the Zoom side.

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