Engagement: surveys, live polls and quizzes

Prepare a live poll, test a response and review the round’s results.

Before you start

You need editing access to event engagement and a second device for the test response. Use a separate test round.

Rehearse a live poll

1. Open Engagement → Create activity and choose Live poll.
2. Add a single-choice question, such as “Which topic interests you?” with two choices.
3. In Settings, check who may join and whether answers should be anonymous.
4. Open Run or Moderate, prepare a new run and open the presentation.
5. Join on the second device using the QR code or join code. Select Start question in moderation, then submit an answer on the second device.
6. End the answer phase with Next, then close the round with End run.

Check your result

The live counters should register the join and response. Open Results to inspect the distribution. A new run keeps later responses separate from your test round.

Build your questions

Every activity is a list of questions. Add a question, choose its type and write the answer options where needed:

• Single choice and multiple choice – with the answer options you define.
• Rating scale – a whole number between a minimum and a maximum.
• Short answer and long answer – free text.
• Word cloud – up to three short terms per person; frequent terms appear larger.

Mark questions as required, give them a time to answer, and – in a quiz – set points and mark the correct answer with the checkmark. An option without a correct answer is simply an opinion question that scores nothing.

Choose where and how people take part

Under Settings, choose the assignment and rules. Require sign-in and Anonymous are inside the Advanced section:

• Assignment – the whole event, or a single slot (a workshop or session).
• Require sign-in – off by default, so guests can join with the QR code. Turn it on to restrict the activity to signed-in, eligible people.
• Anonymous – store and report answers without participant identity.
• Quiz flow – moderated together (you release one question at a time) or self-paced (everyone advances independently).
• Results display – presentation only, or also on participant devices. Live poll results update as answers arrive; quiz solutions appear after a question closes.
• Points & leaderboard – scored quiz answers earn points, with a leaderboard at the end. Anonymous activities do not offer a personal leaderboard.

Run it live

An activity holds your questions and settings. A run is one round with its own answers. Reuse an activity for another audience without overwriting earlier results.

1. Open the activity and choose Run or Moderate. Prepare a new run and open the audience presentation.
2. Invite people with the QR code or join code. Joined and Answered show live counts of participants and answers to the current question.
3. Start question opens answering. Continue closes it; Next question advances to the following question. Eligible results appear automatically, without an extra release step.
4. Back reverses one step: from results to answering the same question, or from an open question to the previous question. Existing answers are kept. Reopening a question restarts its answer time. You cannot go before the first question.
5. End run closes the round to further answers. Existing answers remain available in Results.

A moderated question with a time limit closes automatically when time runs out. People complete surveys and self-paced quizzes at their own pace.

Open in participant apps

Open in all participant apps displays a prepared or running activity once in eligible participants' apps. Review the estimated audience and confirm before opening it. Participants can close the activity view again. Opening it in the app does not start a moderated question.

Moderate a word cloud

Frequent terms appear larger. In moderation, select a term to hide it from the audience when needed.

Manage activities

• Edit changes questions and settings for the next run. Editing is locked and the editor is muted while a run is active.
• Edit a copy in the notice opens an independent copy so you can prepare changes while the original activity continues. Duplicate also lets you use an activity as a template.
• Archive ends active runs and removes the activity from the active selection. Earlier answers remain available in Archive.
• Delete permanently removes the activity. If it already has runs, their answers are removed too, after confirmation. Archive instead if you need to keep the results.

Understand the answers

Open Results on an activity to see the analysis: distributions per question, word clouds and quiz scores. Switch to Individual answers for the raw responses and use Export for a CSV or Excel file. Anonymous activities show no participant identity.

At the terminal

A Survey & feedback activity can run at a check-in terminal: people fill it out themselves, and the terminal resets for the next person. See Terminal & kiosk overview.

On a Canvas slide

Open a Canvas and select an activity in the left Engagement tab. With no interaction slide selected, this adds a new, automatically managed slide. Click the slide to change the linked activity or its settings in the panel. Edit activity opens the full question editor.

Choose Present → Presenter view to moderate in a separate control window. It has the same controls and live counts as activity moderation. The audience slideshow shows only slides and the intended results. Switching slides does not start a question; without a prepared run it shows Waiting for the moderator.

Engagement for one slot

An activity can belong to a single slot. Speakers or workshop hosts don't need to join the event team to run it – assign them as responsible people for the slot. See Slots: workshops, rooms and extras.