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Newcomer
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
October 31, 2023

This is happening to me too. Were you able to find a solution? 

 

Newcomer
October 31, 2023

Hi, yes we are having the same problem!

Newcomer
October 31, 2023

 

Newcomer
December 5, 2023

You never did have to recreate Polls as you could save your meeting/webinar as a meeting template and copy it over for the next time it ran and your polls and surveys would come with it! Since the upgrade, you cannot even delete Polls from a meeting template now and polls in templates do not appear in the new polls library so we are worse off since the upgrade unfortunately!

 

Newcomer
October 31, 2023

Thanks for checking. We called their support and they told us the same last night. Not sure why they think doing it this way and not allowing us an option is a good idea, but here we are.

Newcomer
October 31, 2023

I have a support ticket out but I'm guessing I will get told the same thing 😐. We use several polls and not having the option to select the ones that you want for your meeting is going to be a nightmare.

Newcomer
November 1, 2023

I have had the same problem over the last couple of days and was shocked to see that old questions from a completely unrelated meeting were suddenly loaded into a new meeting. All of my meetings have their own polls! Looking for a workaround, which we should not have to do, I just discovered that if you start the meeting, you can pretend to run the polls and then, finally, you can delete the ones you don't want by clicking on the dots to the right of each poll. There, you will find the choice of deleting the poll, which I did one by one for this meeting. Then, I closed the meeting just to make sure the wrong polls were gone, and they were.  I hope they don't reappear tomorrow. 

There is a second issue, which is that the polls are now loading backwards, from the bottom up. So, as one types them, the newest goes on top of the last one. I have never seen anything like this! If you've put in 6 polls, numbers 1-6, they will be appear as number 6 first and then in descending order, 6-1.

Newcomer
November 1, 2023

I'm noticing all these things too.  I want 3 things from polls

1. Ability to create and pull them from the Polls Library into any given meeting

2. Ability to re-order them via drag-and-drop

3. Ability to delete a poll which I can't seem to do at all now

Newcomer
November 1, 2023

Agreed. These would all be helpful features. We'd also like to be able to group them into folders or sort alphabetically.

Newcomer
November 1, 2023

I'm expriencing the same issue.  It's inconvenient to find the polls you need among all you created. Also, the fact that polls are only sorted by date modified makes it even harder to find polls for a certain meeting. Hope Zoom will solve these soon.

Newcomer
November 13, 2023

Adding my voice to the thread ... this is very inconvenient as released. A bank of polling questions would be useful if we could pick and choose which questions we wanted to deploy as part of the setup, but wading through the entire bank each time you need to release a poll is a nightmare.

Newcomer
November 15, 2023

Agree with the inconvenience of this new functionality (if you can call it that) regarding polls and surveys. Just to also add to this thread about problems, my issue is that I have polls created and sitting in templates for specific meetings. But when I look at the new Surveys and Polls section, it says I have nothing. There is no option to upload anything in this area that I can see. You just have to create from scratch. Our polls are used in training workshops for specific training activities so they took a bit of time to create. Not going to do them again.