How To: Live Stream Polls

Owned by Marcel van Egdom
Last updated: May 22, 2024
4 min read

Overview

Polls are a great way to promote engagement between Delegates, a Speaker and the Presentation.

Polls can be added to the Live Stream page by Admin, Speakers and Moderators.

Polls are not able to be scheduled but can be prepared in advance and activated at the appropriate time. 

Task

Create and Manage a Live Stream Poll from Speaker Tools.

Pre-requisites

Notes:

Broadcast Delay

When using polls, please be aware that there is a broadcast delay. The broadcast delay could be between 10 - 30 seconds for the delegates viewing the livestream. You will need to ensure that you are taking this into account when you are starting and particularly stopping your polls ensuring that they are starting and stopped inline withe the broadcast to the delegates viewing the livestream. 

 

Poll Ordering

If you require your polls in a specific order for when they are enabled, please ensure you load these in the opposite order you wish for them to show. The first poll you load in, will show last and the last poll you load in will show first. 

Instructions

  1. Navigate to the applicable Live Stream page which is usually found via the "Watch Live" button in the top right of the platform. From here, click the 'Access Speaker Tools' button which is located just below the Header and above the Live Stream window: 

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  2. Scroll down the Speaker Tools page to the 'Polls' section. It will look like the below:

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  3. Click 'Create Poll'.
    Reminder: Poll Ordering
    If you require your polls in a specific order for when they are enabled, please ensure you load these in the opposite order you wish for them to show. The first poll you load in, will show last and the last poll you load in will show first. 

  4. A box will pop up for you to populate your Poll details;

    1. Under 'Talk', select the applicable Talk from the drop-down list.

    2. Within the 'Name' field, input what you'd like to name the Poll.

    3. Under 'Type', select 'Single Select' if you'd like Delegates to only be able to select one answer, or select 'Multiple Select' if you'd like Delegates to be able to select more than one answer.

    4. Within the 'Answer' field, input the Answer you'd like available for Delegates to select. If you'd like more than one Answer available, click 'Add' as required to add more Answers.
      Please note, if you input a comma within an answer, this will trigger the platform and it will think that this is another answer. For example, if you input "How to, Live Stream Polls" How to and Live Stream Polls will be 2 different answers. Fullstops are accepted and will not affect the answer you have inputted. Please avoid using commas.

  5. When complete, click 'Submit'.

  6. Your Poll is now ready. There are a few options to choose from:

    • When you would like the poll to become available to Delegates on the Live Stream page, click 'Start'. Once you start a poll, you cannot edit it. It will appear on the Live Stream page below the Live Stream window:

    • If you would like to edit the Poll, click 'Edit'. (you cannot edit the Poll once it has been started)

    • If you would like to delete the Poll, click 'Delete'.

  7. Once you have clicked 'Start', this allows Delegates to participate. The poll will look similar to the below screenshot. The smaller text under "Poll" will be what you have named the poll. In the below example the title of the poll is "I am a poll"

  8. Delegates answers will show for them in green only once they have submitted. 

  9. Delegate Viewing Options: You have to option to hide the percentage or results, or allow delegates to view this. The delegates can hide or show this on their own accord.

    • View only the answers without any results

    • View the poll with the answers in percentage form

    • Once the Poll is finished, you then Complete the poll. The poll will then disappear from the frontend. 

  10. When you are ready to end the poll, click 'Complete'. It will no longer be visible to Delegates on the Live Stream page. You can locate this via "Completed Polls". 
    Please note: You can only show 1 poll on each livestream page at a time. 

Notes

Polls are reportable. However, this will apply to just the totals, not the individual responses.