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October 30, 2023
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Problem with Polling Questions

  • October 30, 2023
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Hello:

 

I have a number of Zoom Meetings (and Webinars) already created/scheduled. Ever since the new Survey & Polls upgrade, whenever I create polling questions in one of the meetings, the polling questions are populating in ALL of the meetings and webinars I've already created. How do I stop this from happening?

 

Each meeting/webinar needs to have a unique set of polling questions. I don't know why this is happening where I add a polling question to one of the meetings, it's showing up in all of the meetings. Has anyone else experienced this issue?

25 replies

Newcomer
January 19, 2024

This is horrible. I have 8 separate Zooms set up for next week with different polls for each Zoom. I am going to have to wade through 120 poll questions every single time I launch. This is ridiculous. Zoom has to fix this. 

Newcomer
January 27, 2024

We're also having this problem. This is not a feature, this is a bug they're calling a feature.

 

Zoom needs to fix this, this is infuriating.

Newcomer
January 27, 2024

Let's hope that someone from the Zoom admin team is monitoring this community in order to addresses these concerns quickly. This impacts so many users in a VERY unfortunate way and makes it hard to run meetings with polls efficiently and creates unnecessary prep work ahead of meetings!

Newcomer
January 28, 2024

There is a filter option now available once you have created your meeting. From there, you can select which polls you require for that meeting. I did a quick test and it works.

Newcomer
January 29, 2024

Yes. Thanks for sharing this update.  I too encountered this new option to filter questions for each meeting room and it was a pleasant surprise!  This is a helpful "fix" to the recent polling issue. It will require some clean-up to the existing, recurring meeting room polls--but at least things are headed in the right direction with getting us back to the old way of being able customize polls per meeting. 

Newcomer
January 29, 2024

Guys - my admin had to fix it, it has to be fixed on the account management level. See below. 

From my Account Zoom guy:

So there is a way to do this but it requires some admin config.

First, either at the account or group level, you can disable the polls/survey library (this is optional and will depend on how you plan to use the poll feature):

 

 

If disabled, this will allow people (account or group) to only create polls that are attached to specific meetings (basically have to create a new poll for every meeting or webinar).

 

Second, you will need to enable the allow host to create meeting polls/quizzed features for meeting and/or webinar:

 

 

The host, when creating a meeting would create a poll as they do today, but when you save it, select the following:

 

 

 

This poll is only available in the meeting and you'll need to create a new one for the next meeting.

 

Note, you can keep the library on, and still use this meeting poll feature, you would just need to use the filter when creating the meeting to hide the library polls and create the meeting poll.

Newcomer
January 29, 2024

Thanks for sharing this.  I am going to take a closer look to see how this all works out.  The new, filter updates is very helpful, but it looks like what you shared, will get us back to being able to create polls per meeting and not having everything go into a default, central library. 

Newcomer
January 29, 2024

Thank you for the detailed instructions but, for some reason, I don't have the first option about surveys and libraries anywhere, including in administration. I already have the second part that you displayed set up the way you had it shown.  As I had posted earlier, the only way I could deal with this issue was to start the meeting again after all the participants left for the day and after I had run the polling report for the day. Then, I deleted each poll from the meeting, which deletes it from every meeting. Then, I would type my polls for the next day. This placed me back to where I was before this new "feature" started with retyping polls before each day's meeting (or copying them line by line from a Word document) so that I had what I wanted for that particular meeting and nothing else.

Newcomer
January 29, 2024

@ITC - I have yet to go through the set-up the way that jenbethsteww described above, but in terms of the new filter feature - once you develop your polls ahead of a meeting, they will default to a centralized library system (as we know, with the recent, frustrating change).  However, there is now a more recent change that has been added, where can go into each meeting and deselect polls that do not belong in that meeting.  I have tried it and so far--things appear to work.  I no longer see polls that don't belong in each meeting.  I am still testing all my meeting rooms--but so far, so good, once I deselect unwanted polls from each meeting room.