Top 20 Most Useful Polls

Polling is a great way to both engage the audience and provide yourself with insightful analytics post-event. With Glisser, usability is key and it’s easy to add a range of polls into your presentation, below we have listed our top 20 most useful and commonly used polls to make your event planning even easier. You can edit the questions or answers to fit your specific event, but we invite you to use the below as a starting point.

Remember you can also import, search and start polls from any of your sessions to use in future events. See our support article on how to add, import and search Polls to your event here.

Free Text Poll

Free Text polls allow the audience to write a personalised response to a question. This is most commonly used to provide more detailed feedback at the end of a session or an event. If share with audiences devices is turned on, the responses will all pull through as a word cloud, with the most common answer being central and the largest in size.

1. In one word, what are you most looking forward to at this event?
2. Please use three words to describe the challenges around [insert topic of event]?
3. In one word, how would you describe the event?
4. What was the highlight of today’s session?
5. What would you like to see covered in future events?

Opinion Polls

Opinion polls are a great way of gauging the audience’s thoughts on a topic, or they can be used as an ice-breaker question for a fun way to make sure the audience is familiar with Glisser at the start of the presentation. You can set the questions to have either single or multi-select answers, as well as ranked into their chosen order.

6. How are you today? — Great, Good, Okay
7. What continent are you logging in from?
8. Where did you hear about this event? — Company event, Social media, Internet search, Invited by a friend/colleague, Attended a previous event by the same organizer, Other
9. What element encouraged you to attend this event? — Guest speakers, learning & increasing knowledge, Q&A, networking
10. How much understanding do you have regarding [insert topic of event]? — Fully understand, Good understanding, Little understanding, No understanding
11. Which speakers are you most looking forward to? [Instert all speakers names/images as options]
12. Following this event/session, how much understanding do you have regarding [insert topic of event]? — Fully understand, Good understanding, Little understanding, No understanding
13. Would you like to hear more about [insert topic/company]

Quiz Polls

Quiz polls allow delegates to choose answers from the options provided, where their answer(s) will be counted as correct or incorrect.

14. When was our company founded? — Year X, Year Y, Year Z

Rating Polls

Rating polls give the audience the opportunity to answer a question in the form of a scaled rating system. The number of stars used in the poll would typically be either five or ten (although can be set to any number between three and ten, at the presenter’s discretion).

15. Overall, how would you rate this session?
16. How likely are you to recommend [Company X] to a friend or colleague?

Date Picker Poll

The date picker poll is used when the presenter requires the audience to give a specific date as their answer. The format of the date picker poll is similar to the free text poll.

17. When would you like the next event?

Survey Poll

The survey allows you to capture data from delegates in a different format to our other polls and is often used to gather feedback on how beneficial the event was. Surveys are most often used to gather feedback or capture more detailed responses to questions. Delegates have the ability to respond in text up to 200 characters. The survey tool is always set to mandatory ensuring that you always gain feedback from the delegates as they cannot ‘skip’ the Survey. You can read more about Survey Poll’s here.

18. All the below questions can be entered under 1 survey, with the heading ‘We would love your feedback!’ We would recommend having between 3-6 feedback questions per event.
    a. What was your main takeaway from the event/session/talk?
    b. What did you enjoy about today’s event?
    c. What would you like to see at the next conference?
    d. What could we improve on next time?

Lottery Picker

To incentivize the audience to participate and gamify your presentation, a lottery system, where there is a winner amongst all of the delegates, is a beneficial feature. You can read more about Lottery picker here.

19. The winner of the gift card is…
20. The presenter of the next session will be… — Great for internal company events