Learn to create a Community poll to survey your Community members.
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Community poll
Survey your Community members with a poll in your Community Channels. Learn more about Community Channels.
Create a poll
To create a poll in your Community Channel Feed:
- Navigate to your Products tab from your Dashboard.
- Select Community:
- Then, click Go to Community:
- Navigate to an existing Channel Feed or create a new one.
- Then, click
+
in your Channel Feed or the polling icon from your Feed tab:
- Enter your prompt in the "Write your thoughts..." section and build out your answer options:
Add more answer options by clicking + Add option and adding your emoji icon and text:
Additional poll settings
As you create your poll, you can click the gear icon next to + Add option to access additional poll settings:
- Allow multiple answers: Allow the members in your Channel to select multiple answer options in your poll.
- End date: Set a time limit for answers to be submitted to the poll.
Rearrange your answer options
Reorganize your answer options by moving the options to your desired placement.
To rearrange your answer options:
- As you create your poll, hover your mouse next to the answer option you wish to move.
- When the dotted icon appears, click and hold the dotted icon:
- As you hold the dotted icon, drag and drop the answer option to your desired location:
Remove an answer option
To delete an answer option as you build out your poll, you can simply change the text and emoji image of an existing answer or after creating additional options, you can click the trash icon by hovering inside the answer option you wish to permanently remove:
Publish your poll
After you have set up your poll, be sure that everything is configured correctly before clicking Post as it will be publicly posted to your Community Feed.
Clicking Post will publish your poll immediately to your Feed.
Click the dropdown icon next to the Post button to post your poll immediately (i.e., Post Now) or schedule for later:
If you wish to edit your poll after you have posted, you can click the More Actions menu in the top-right corner of your posted poll and click Edit:
Poll results
You and your administrators will always be able to see the answers submitted to the poll. Whereas, Community Members will only be able to see the answers after they have submitted their vote.
If you wish to see more details about who voted for what, click See Results after votes have been submitted to your poll.
And that’s how you can create Community Polls! Please vote below and let us know if you found this article helpful. We value your feedback. Thanks for being the best part of Kajabi!