With Zoom’s new enhanced polling features, you can:

• Have participants answer multiple choice questions
• Rank provided choices
• Match items to one another
• Include images for each question
• Set correct answers to transform the poll into a quiz. 

This is a great set of tools for educators, those involved in market research, or just making a presentation more interactive. Knowing that creating these polls in Zoom takes time and effort, this Pro Tip will show you how to create a poll once and be able to use it again for other meetings days, weeks, or even months later. 

Creating the polls

I won’t go into too much detail regarding how to create a poll, as our Advanced Polling For Meetings article provides much more information, but let’s go through the basics: 

1. Ensure advanced polling is enabled in your web settings. 
2. Schedule a meeting as you would typically for this meeting.
   Notes: 
• You can also use an existing meeting, as long as it is not using your PMI.
• The meeting cannot use your PMI and cannot use E2E Encryption. 
3. Once the meeting is scheduled, scroll down to find the Polls/Quizzes tab. 
4. Click Create and select Advanced Polls and Quizzes. 
5. Create the questions as you need. See the support article for more information.
   Note: With advanced polling you can create a max of 50 polls for a single meeting, with each poll having a max of 50 questions. Standard polling is limited to just 10 questions per poll. 
6. Click Save. 
   
7. (Optional) Repeat steps 4-6 as necessary to create additional sets of polls. 

Creating a template

Now that you have created your poll(s), let's create a template from that meeting, which we can use to create more meetings with those same polls and other settings at a later date. We can create a template before the meeting is ever used or afterwards, but the meeting still needs to exist on your account. *Remember* meetings will expire 30 days after the scheduled date or when it was last used. 

1. Go to the Meetings page in the web portal and find the meeting you want to make a template out of. If it was scheduled for a date in the past, it may be in the Previous tab. 
2. Click on the meeting topic to view the meeting and its settings. 
3. Scroll down to find the Save as Template options, which is located next to Start, Edit, and Delete buttons.
   Note: Most meeting settings and polling information is saved in a template, but the original date and time, any alternative hosts, and post meeting surveys are not. 
4. Click that option and name the template. For educators, you may name the template after the course and section these polls cover, such as “Biology 101 - Chapter 3”

Managing templates and scheduling meetings from a template

Now that you have created a template, you can view all your templates from the Meeting Templates tab of the Meetings page. You can view what each template has by clicking on the name of it, delete templates you no longer need, or schedule a new meeting based on a template. Templates can also be edited, in case you need to adjust a setting or perhaps a typo in a poll. 

You can also choose a template when scheduling a meeting by clicking the drop-down menu next to Template. Keep in mind, scheduling from templates is only available when scheduling through the web portal. 

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Thanks for reading and feel free to ask any related questions or provide your own tips for polling or templates in the replies below!

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To Whom It May Concern;

This is Zion from Dherald Flip Education Inc. I'm writing to you to address some serious problems that have occured more than a couple of times regarding the use of the meeting room.
We're currently using 8 Zoom accounts for our company business and one of our teachers couldn't hold a class this morning as there was unknown person using the same meeting room. This happened before and it's causing us a big problem.
I'd like you to check and identify the problem of the following cases for us and make sure it won't happen again.

1) Aug 25th, 2022
When our instructor at work opened the meeting room(PM) at 21:09 with *********** account, someone was having a meeting.

When I logged in and opened the meeting room to check the situation, they disappeared, and our teacher proceeded the class from 21:11:44 to 21:35:08.

All classes scheduled for the 25th were finished with this class, but when we checked the meeting room usage record later, there was a meeting room usage record from 10:06:30 to 10:38:57.

We checked everything and still don't know who used it.

2) Sep 20th, 2022
When our teacher at work opened the meeting room(PM) at 08:00 with *********** account, someone was having a meeting.

This time, we reopened the meeting room, so we couldn't check the situation, but our instructor left their faces with a screen capture.

Strangely, there is no record of meeting room (PM) usage this time.

And they didn't seem to be embarrassed in the meeting room. If they stole the account, I think they would have done a different reaction.

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