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Polls in channel meetings
Hello Techhelp
When I’m in a Team meeting (not on a channel) I can launch a quick poll (Forms) or start the Forms bot (@Forms), by clicking on the 3 dots in het meeting chat.
When I’m in a Team meeting in a Teams Channel nothing happens when I’m clicking on the 3 dots in the meeting chat. I cannot start the bot either.
Is it because my Organisation is blocking these extra options? Something that is disabled by the admins? Or are these options not available in Team Channel Meetings?
In both cases I am the meeting organizer.
Thanks in advance for clarifying
Hi, I'm pretty sure Polls in channel meetings are still being worked on. But if I recall correctly it should be available rather soon.
In the meantime, please vote on this item in Uservoice: Allow Live Polls in Channel Meetings – Microsoft Teams UserVoice
Hi, I'm pretty sure Polls in channel meetings are still being worked on. But if I recall correctly it should be available rather soon.
In the meantime, please vote on this item in Uservoice: Allow Live Polls in Channel Meetings – Microsoft Teams UserVoice
- thank you!
- No worries! Will update this post if I find something new (can't verify it which I normally do).
- I am also curious if and when the live polls will become available in channel meetings Christian. I tried to check or vote on this item in uservoice, but the item does not seem to have survived the transition to the new feedback portal.
I was so happy with the live polls and I wanted to use them in my big sessions, but I can't because we use a channel meeting 😞 The poll in the chat is nowhere near as user friendly and does not have the new word cloud option... But I am glad that you told us in this thread that it just is not available yet, because now I know what's going on... So thank you very much!yes, this feature has been missing for way too long in channel meetings. There are other new tools coming to meetings that we are missing out on. The new dynamic Word Clouds are a great feature for interactive meetings, as is the Q & A feature, but these are also not available in Teams channel meetings.
Has this been taken off the roadmap?
ChristianJBergstrom any updates on this? We would love to use polls in channel meetings as well.
it looks like it is in development: Add live voting and polling to Teams Live Events · Community (microsoft.com)
Rebbecca NathalieThiel
No, Rebbecca, that's incorrect information. That uservoice post states that they are adding polling to "Live Events". Not to channel meetings.
There once was a uservoice item that stated Microsoft was possibly going to look into including integrated polling in channel meetings, but the link to that item has since been broken and lost. Pretty dissappointed with that.
NathalieThiel I cannot do a poll in the desktop but I managed to do a simple poll via Forms on my iPhone and iPad in a channel meeting 🙂 But I wanted to do a word cloud, but couldn't 😞
- great tip, I will try that! thank you
I love channel meetings for saving the meeting & associated chat in the Channel but the odd functionality is frustrating. My work around for polls/quizzes in a Channel meeting is to use Polly. Prior to the meeting create a template of the questions you want to ask (multi-choice, open ended, likert, etc. Sorry no word cloud). During the meeting instruct attendees to open their chat window and the organizer can click the Polly icon, choose the poll question from the Templates and launch it. Templates are saved across MS Teams GRPs so I could imagine the templates list getting convoluted over time so you'd want to delete out questions once the meeting is over.
- There are a couple of issues with this disparity between Calendar and Channel meetings...
1. The behaviour differs between Calendar Meetings and Channel Meetings, which leads to confusion and a lot of wasted time as people try to work out why they can do this in Calendar Meetings and not in Channel Meetings
2. While there is a potential workaround by going to the Channel view while in the Meeting and creating a poll in the chat, this creates unnecessary complexity especially for educators new to delivering sessions via Teams.
If you want to encourage Microsoft to work on this consider upvoting the request in the Microsoft Feedback Portal. https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/idea/8a04d984-82a5-ec11-a81c-002248519ffe
