Polls are a great way to engage your audience, monitor attendee interests, and obtain helpful insights during your event. This information can be valuable as you plan for future events.
Granting Access to the Polling Feature
Those creating or triggering Polls need to be given Permission to do so. Ensure the ROLE for that has been created for your event.
Note: If you are working with a Sardius Media Online Event Coordinator for your event, this will be done for you.
Access the USERS and ROLES settings through the cog wheel icon beside your account name on the top left of the Sardius Control Panel.
Step 1: ROLES
To create the role granting Polls access, go to ROLES from the Setting icon. Here you will add Full Access for POLLS and add CHAT access for your event site.
Step 2: USERS
Once that is done, be sure to add that Role to the Specific User that you want to grant access to.
Polls
Polls are attached to your account, so any of the existing Polls from current/previous events are accessible via the Chat Moderation panel of your sites.
Only those with permission to do so will be able to create or trigger a Poll.
To access the Polling feature, access Polls under the Experiences section in the left Sidebar.
From here, you will see a list of existing Polls.
Helpful Tip: If you need to clean up the Polls area (ie. delete any Polls no longer relevant), you can do that directly from within the Polls area of the Sardius Control Panel
Creating New Polls
Once in the Polls area, simply click on the Add New Poll to create your Polls
A modal window will appear that allows you to set the Poll Question and some advanced features for the Poll.
Polls only work with quantitative data, therefore each Poll Question must have multiple choice response options.
- Type your Poll question into the Poll Message field
- If you want users to be able to close the Poll without answering it, select the Allow closing without an answer option. If this toggle is NOT selected, the Poll will disappear only after the user answers it.
- If you want to show your Viewers the live updated Poll results, as people are answering, select the Show result totals to users after answering option.
- Type each of your multiple choice answers into the Response Options. Be sure to press enter after each selection to ensure they are listed as separate options to the Poll question.
- When finished, click on Create Poll
To use the Polling feature as Trivia, you can set one of your response options as a Correct Answer by selecting the response item here
Once your Poll has been triggered, you can find the immediate Poll results at the bottom of the Poll, in the Responses area. This will populate the results once the Poll has been triggered.
During a live event, Response results can be fed back to a host or emcee to share poll results with your live audience from the stage.
Triggering Polls
All Polls are triggered through the Sardius Control Panel Chat Moderation Panel on your event site.
Once you have all of your Polls added, find your event under Sites in the Experiences section of the left Sidebar.
Once you find the event desired, you will access the Polling feature through the Chat icon on the event site.
Note: Anyone with access to the Chat Moderation Panel will see the area from which Polls can be triggered, but only those with Permissions can actually trigger the Polls.
To Trigger a Poll, click on the "Trigger Poll" button
For Events with One General Chat Room
If your event is using one general Chat Room, a modal will appear with the list of Poll options. Select the Poll you want to send and click the Send Poll button
For Events Using Watch Parties or Breakout Rooms
If your event has Watch Parties or Breakout Rooms, along with your general Chat Room, an additional field will appear at the top that allows you to select which rooms you want to send the poll to.
If you are using Watch Parties or Breakout Rooms for your event, those will need to be created on your site first in order for you to send Polls to those rooms. Watch Parties and Breakout Rooms are created in the Site Settings area of your site. Once created, they will show up as room options when triggering polls.
Select the rooms that you want the poll to be seen in
If you want to send the poll to specific rooms, highlight the room options desired in the Dropdown menu. Put your cursor in the field under “Pick which rooms to send the poll to in addition to General” to see a drop-down menu of the existing rooms available. When you select any of the existing rooms, they will be added to the field at the top.
If you want to send the poll to all the rooms in the list, click on the ALL button on the right
From the Poll options list, select the Poll that you want to send to the rooms you’ve selected
If you have a lot of Poll options, use the side scrollbar on the right side to see additional options from the list.
Once you have selected your options, they will appear like this
Don’t forget to click SEND POLL at the bottom of the window when you’re ready to show the poll to your audience.
How Triggered Polls appear in the Sardius Moderation area
Once you trigger a poll, it will appear under the Player Preview as shown here.
When you are ready to remove the poll, you can click on the Red Button to remove it from all of the rooms where it is being shown.
Helpful Tip: Consider leaving a poll up for at least one minute. This affords users who may not see it right away, an opportunity to participate.
How Polls Appear to Chat Users
Polls appear at the bottom of Chat in the Sidebar, as shown to the right.
If you set the Poll to show the results after answering, then a second window will appear. Once they answer, users will see the results of how other viewers are responding in real time
Poll Results
You can find Poll results within the Poll feature area after it has been triggered. Results are available immediately.
During Live events, poll results can be fed back to a host/emcee to share the results with the online/live audience from the stage- or you can download Poll reports after the event.
