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Once entered, a poll is now available in every webinar?

  • December 7, 2023
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Hi all. It looks like Zoom made a recent change to how polls are displayed. We offer monthly educational webinars and have polls specific to that webinar topic. When we enter in the polls for one webinar they show up in all the webinars now. This will get very confusing. Is there any way to not allow/disable this?  

    Best answer by Ray_Harwood

    @Shahnaz -- it's no longer that way.  When creating a poll, you now have the OPTION to designate it as being attached only to the current meeting, or put into a library for wider use.

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    Ray_Harwood
    Community Super Champion | Customer
    Community Super Champion | Customer
    December 7, 2023

    Welcome to the Zoom Community, @suzannef.

     

    Read this Zoom Support article for information:

    https://support.zoom.com/hc/en/article?id=zm_kb&sys_kb_id=45b4eefec3ea7510a80f2965e00131bc&spa=1

     

    Note that putting your polls in the Polls Library makes them broadly available. Also, if you have recurring webinars (as opposed to a newly scheduled webinar for each session) polls might be available across the entire recurring series (I haven’t tested that, so I’m not 100% sure).

    Newcomer
    December 7, 2023

    I haven't found an opt-out setting for saving polls to the library or to having them populate in every meeting (or webinar, apparently) you have scheduled. I don't use recurring meetings, but polls from one are copying to all my other single meetings. I don't understand why they thought this would be helpful. 

    Newcomer
    December 7, 2023

    I don't need my poll questions to be added to each training webinar.  This is ridiculous, each webinar I have has specific questions (polls). Now I open the polls and I have a list of them duplicated all over my webinars.

    Newcomer
    December 14, 2023

    We also hate this feature - All polls and quizzes are available for all webinars. Such a bad experience finding the right one when you are live. 

    Newcomer
    December 20, 2023

    Just chiming in to say this feature is not helpful for our use case either. We run 5-7 educational programs every day and many of our presenters use polls. This will become impossible for them to navigate. I'd love to have a library and be able turn on specific polls for specific programs, but having to go in and delete old polls for upcoming programs using different polls is very time consuming.

    Newcomer
    February 27, 2024

    I really have no idea who came up with that idea!!! This is soooo rediculous!

    Ray_Harwood
    Community Super Champion | Customer
    Community Super Champion | Customer
    February 27, 2024

    @Shahnaz -- it's no longer that way.  When creating a poll, you now have the OPTION to designate it as being attached only to the current meeting, or put into a library for wider use.

    Newcomer
    March 6, 2024

    @Ray_Harwood Can you please elaborate the steps on how I can designate the polls as being attached only to the current meeting ? I couldn't find that option.

    Newcomer
    March 20, 2024

    Is there any chance of this change to the polls being rolled back?  It has significantly increased my workload!  I now have a very long list of polls which I have to individually 'turn off' for each and every meeting.  Previously I had a poll template which the co-hosts adapted for their session and that was it.  Now my process is - create poll template - start meeting - duplicate poll template - edit copy and change the name (so the co-hosts who facilitate the meeting know which one to use, can't use the 'star' as it goes to every meeting) - leave meeting - return to meeting poll/quizzes - 'turn off' the template so only the new copy is available - go to every upcoming meeting which occurs before the meeting I have just changed to again turn off unwanted polls.  This is now the process for every single meeting and I create over 200 meetings each each!! Absolutely ridiculous!! 

    Newcomer
    March 27, 2024

    I also do not have the option detailed:

    Click Save, then click Save as meeting poll or Save as meeting quiz.
    This saves the poll/quiz to the specific meeting. 

     

    I am an administrator on our Company account, and I have to field queries each day from multiple users within our team who are querying why polls irrelevant to their meetings are showing.  Like others, my workload is increasingly being impacted by this change - why not give users an option to 'opt-out' of some supposed enhancements as they do impact the end user negatively for the most part?  I am hoping for a very quick resolution to this issue (or a rollback!)