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Free Text Polls

Generate word clouds or read attendee's comments as a feed

Emily Zaehring avatar
Written by Emily Zaehring
Updated over 2 weeks ago

Free Text settings

The free text poll type has several unique settings.

Use the short answer area instead of full text

Toggling this setting on will change the size of the text box in the attendee view. Instead of multiple lines, attendees will only see 1 line. This encourages them to be briefer.


​Attendee view:

Restrict response to one word

This will prevent attendees from entering a space so they can only submit one word. This combines very well with the word cloud display type.

The results of the free text poll can be shown as a Word Cloud or a Feed View. The example below is Word Cloud in the Presenter View.

The visualization shown in presenter view will be the same in Broadcast View and the Report, but can be changed at any time.

Word Cloud

Any “Free Text” poll can be represented by a word cloud. The word cloud is visible during the meeting in the Polls Broadcast View. 

In-meeting Broadcast view of the word cloud

Changing the Free Text visualization

You can change the Free Text visualization from within the Presenter View by clicking the "..." menu on a poll, and clicking "Broadcast View Settings"

This will open a panel where you can configure the Broadcast View and overall visualization of the poll. Under "Configure Chart Style" you can select to change the visualization to "Answers Feed". Learn more about Broadcast Configuration

Answers Feed View

You can view the comments as they come in Answers Feed view. This is also available in Broadcast view and Presenter View.

Broadcast view of the feed 

Presenter view of the Free Text Feed

Reporting on Free Text Polls

The word cloud is also shown on the final report. You can also switch to the feed view directly within the report. Learn more about Reports

Word cloud in Poll Results report

The Print-Friendly view rearranges the words into a multi-colored word cloud on a white background.

Print-friendly view of Free text word cloud

You can access the comments that generated the word cloud by clicking on the Votes (CSV) link. Go to Polls > Results and scroll to the free text poll. Then click Votes CSV to download a CSV of the answers.


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