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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 ...
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
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
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