Conduct polls in Google Meet

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Important:

When you create a poll in a live stream, it's automatically available to both meeting participants and live-stream participants. Hosts can't disable polls for live-stream users.
You can't create, but can respond to, polls on mobile devices.

Requirements to use polls in Google Meet.

Important: Polling in Google Meet is available to these Google Workspace editions:

Essentials
Business Standard
Business Plus
Enterprise Starter
Enterprise Essentials
Enterprise Standard
Enterprise Plus
Education Plus
Teaching and Learning Upgrade
G Suite Business
Non-profits
Workspace Individual subscriber

Tip: Workspace admins can switch this feature on or off for their entire organisation.

Conduct a poll in a Google Meet meeting

Polling in Google Meet using Google Workspace for business

For meeting moderators:

As a meeting moderator, you can create polls for participants to vote on. After the meeting, the moderator is automatically emailed a report of the poll results. The report contains names and answers of the participants. Participant names aren't shared in the case of anonymous polls.

Anyone who schedules or starts a meeting will be the meeting host. If you transfer or schedule a meeting on someone else's calendar, the other person could become the meeting host. By default, there is only one meeting host per meeting, but you can add up to 25 co-hosts once inside the meeting.

Create a poll

In a meeting, at the bottom right, click Activities click Polls.
Click Start a poll.
Enter a question and add options for the poll.
- Tip: You can let users respond anonymously to polls. Before you save or launch your poll, turn on Responses appear without names .
Choose one:
- To post your poll, click Launch.
- To save your poll so that you can launch it later, click Save.
Tip: Polls that you save remain listed under Polls for the duration of the meeting. After the call ends, all polls are permanently deleted. Meeting moderators are emailed a polling report at the end of the meeting.
After a poll is launched, to vote on your own poll, select one of the options click Vote.

Moderate a poll

In a meeting, at the bottom right, click Activities click Polls.
Optional: To let participants see a poll's results, next to 'Show everyone the results', click Switch on .
Optional: To close a poll and not allow responses, click End the poll.
- Tip: Participants can still view the poll.
To permanently delete a poll from your list of polls, click Delete .
- Tip: No one can view deleted polls.

View a poll report

After a meeting, the moderator is emailed a report for any polls conducted in the meeting. The report includes the names and answers of the meeting participants.

Open the poll report email.
Click the report attachment.

For meeting participants:

As a meeting participant, you can submit a response for a poll.

You'll get a notification in the meeting when the moderator starts a poll. Make sure that you submit your response before the poll or meeting ends.

Important: When you respond to a poll anonymously, details are hidden from:

Other meeting participants
The moderators
Your Workspace admin

Your response to a poll is shared in its entirety with Google. The poll is later anonymised or deleted, subject to our data retention policy.

In a meeting, at the bottom right, click Activities click Polls.
In the poll, select your response click Vote.
Tip: After you click Vote, you can’t change your response.