Problem: You want to ask team-specific questions of your audience. 

Solution: Use conditional polling to only show attendees the questions relevant to their answers!

Sometimes called flow-chart polling, conditional polling allows you to direct your questions to different segments of the audience. Here’s a diagram of a set of polls you might want to ask.

Seeing many polls at once can be overwhelming. On the left here, you can see all the questions we want to ask our audience, and it’s a lot. Fortunately, with conditional polling, each attendee will only see the ones that apply to them.

For people who select “Sales”, we ask about our sales strategy. For people who select “Support”, we ask them about the new support system and follow up with a free text field asking for suggestions.

Conditional polls all show on the same screen. They must be used in surveys, without the “show questions separately” option enabled. They can be used in Entry surveys, Standalone surveys and In-meeting surveys.

To start a conditional poll, create a survey and then create the parent poll. The parent conditional poll must be Single Answer poll or a Yes/No poll. The dependent or “child polls” can be any type, but the parent must be Single-answer or Yes/No. As per the diagram, our parent poll asks what department each attendee is in. 

Next, we want people to answer questions relevant to their department. 

The parent poll must come before the polls that depend on it. If you move a child poll to come before the parent poll, the link will break and you’ll see this red icon of a broken link. Hover over the link to see the error message.

Conditional polls can be nested many times. Just make sure that each poll in the chain is Single-Answer or Yes/No until you get to the end.

Multiple polls can be dependent on the same answer. Simply make all the polls dependent on that answer in the parent poll. All polls will show up immediately after that answer is selected.  

Problem: You want to share the results of your rating polls but you don’t have a projector or a shared screen.

Solution: Use the Multi-rate polls to show the radar chart in attendee view.

Now when people vote on grid multi-rate polls, a radar chart is shown automatically with the audience’s results and that attendee’s results. This is a great way to share the audience’s results with attendees. 

The radar chart will appear automatically once the attendee has submitted their answer. If you choose to hide results on that multi-rate poll, the average line will not be drawn; each attendee will only see their own votes.