Surveys are simply groups of polls. The polls show together on the attendee’s screen (unless you choose to show polls separately). They are run and closed together.
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Create a new survey by navigating to the Polls & Surveys module and clicking "New Survey".

Enter the title you want to be displayed on the Attendee's screens. Then configure your survey. Note: These options cannot be changed after you create the survey.

See this article to know more about our new Forms module.

If multiple languages are utilized in the meeting, you can add translated versions of the survey by turning this toggle on.

By default, attendees see all the polls on the same screen. Turning this toggle on shows each poll separately, making it look like a regular poll. However, when you start a survey that shows questions separately, all the polls will be launched.
​Note: Instructional divider text will not work with this option. 

Instead of showing the polls in the order you create them, this option randomizes the order. It works great with Show questions separately, especially if you're having a competitive quiz -- people won't be able to guess based on their neighbor's phone. It's also nice if you want to avoid any prejudice that comes from seeing some questions before others.
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You can encourage attendee participation by adding a timer to the survey. Ensure you add enough time for attendees to answer all the questions.

If your survey was not already showing to attendees (toggled on), showing it to them will start the timer. If it was already showing, hide and show it again to start the timer.

Next, you need to add some polls to your survey. To do this, expand the Survey by clicking on the arrow to the left of the survey name.
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Click New Poll to add a new poll. This is just like clicking the "New Poll" button, with a couple of added options.
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By default, polls are mandatory. If you want to ask your attendees a question they aren't required to answer, do it in a survey. Enable the slider for "Make this question optional". 

For Yes/No polls, there is a special option in the survey. "Display as a checkbox" replaces the Yes and No buttons with a simple checkbox. When an attendee checks the box, MeetingPulse records it as a "Yes".
​Note: this setting cannot be used with the optional-poll setting.

Show polls based on the attendees' answer to a previous poll by using toggling on "Make conditional". Select the poll title, and desired response.

After clicking "Create poll" you can tell the poll is conditional on another based on the link icon. Hovering over this icon will indicate which poll it is conditional on.

You can also break up a poll with text or image blocks. Text blocks can be used to add instructional text separate from the polls. Image blocks can be used to add logos or branded banners to the poll.

Attendee view of a text block with instructional text, and a conditional poll.

You can drag and drop polls to show up in the order you want. You can also drag polls into and out of the surveys. The instruction text can be edited and dragged around as well. 

All polls in a Survey will appear on the same screen, which sometimes means attendees must scroll down. However, you can make any of the polls optional. 

Attendee view:

We recommend using forms as your exit survey. You can show it 5 minutes before your meeting ends. This gives people time to complete it during the meeting. You can also use the link to send out the form after the meeting is finished.
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You can also use in-meeting surveys for exit surveys, but you can't link to them, and your audience must answer all the other open polls first.

If you want to launch a group of polls together, but don’t want to have them show up on the same screen you can create a multi-poll Form and enable “Show questions separately”. 

Add all the polls you want to launch together inside that survey. Each attendee will see just the starting poll when you launch the survey. Once they answer that poll, they can click “Next” to move on to the next poll in the survey.

Note: Consecutive Poll Surveys will not show any divider text or the name of the survey.

Duplicate your survey and edit it!

The duplicate option on Surveys will save you a lot of time setting up your meetings. Once you’ve set up the first survey, you can easily make a copy using the duplicate function. 

Tip: This makes it much more worthwhile to take the time to format your poll questions and instructions.