Poll

A Poll slide asks your learners a question and lets them vote on one or more answers. Once they've voted, they see the results: which options they picked and, once enough people have voted, how the whole group voted. Polls have no right or wrong answers, so they work well for collecting opinions, warming up a topic or starting a discussion.

The Editor at a Glance

When you open a Poll slide, you'll see three areas:

The slide canvas in the middle. You edit the question texts and choices right here, on the slide.
The toolbar above the canvas. Use it to switch the device orientation (landscape or portrait), open the sidebar, and switch the canvas between the Interaction and Results previews.
The sidebar on the right, with two tabs: Appearance and Settings.

Interaction and Results previews

The toggle in the toolbar shows you the two states learners go through:

Interaction shows what learners see before they vote. This is where you edit texts and choices.
Results shows what learners see after they submit. It uses sample data, so you can check how your colors and labels look before anyone has voted.

Building Blocks

A Poll slide is made of:

Header texts: overline, title, caption and description. Click into each one on the canvas to write your question and any context learners need.
Choices: the options learners vote on. A new Poll slide comes with three empty choices.
Submit button: learners click it to send their vote.
Images (optional): a background image and an interaction image.

Creating and Managing Choices

Add a choice: Click Add choice below the choices on the canvas, or in the Choices section on the Settings tab.

Edit a choice: Click the choice on the canvas and type. You can use simple text formatting like bold or italic. An empty choice is shown to learners as "Choice 1", "Choice 2" and so on, so remember to give every choice a title.

Reorder choices: Drag a choice by its handle to a new position. You can also focus the handle and use the arrow keys.

Delete a choice: Click the delete button next to the choice. A short Choice deleted notice appears with an Undo button, so you can bring the choice back to where it was. A poll always keeps at least one choice.

How many choices? There's no hard limit. Once you add more than 12, you'll see a warning, because the result bars get hard to read on a single slide. If you need more options, think about splitting them across several polls.

Settings

The Settings tab has three sections.

Choices

Shows how many choices your poll has, and has a button to add another one. You edit the choice titles on the canvas.

Selection limit

By default, learners can pick as many options as they like.

Turn on Limit how many can be picked to set a maximum.
Use the minus and plus buttons next to Maximum selections to set the number. It can't be higher than the number of choices you have.

The limit is a maximum, not a requirement. Picking one option is always enough to submit. If you delete choices and the limit ends up higher than the number of choices left, it's lowered automatically.

Submit button

Button text: Enter your own text for the submit button. Leave it empty to use the default, "Submit my vote".
Before their vote is sent, learners confirm it in a dialog. Votes can't be changed afterwards.
To close the slide for learner input, go to the Evaluation tab. You open and close input separately for each learning group.

Appearance

The Appearance tab controls how results look and adds optional images.

Result colors & legend

The results show two layers, each with its own color and legend label:

Your-vote layer: highlights the options the learner picked. Set a label (default: "You") and a color.
Community layer: shows how the whole group voted. Set a label (default: "Community") and a color.

Leave a label empty to use the default text. If both layers have the same color, you'll see a warning. Pick two different colors so learners can tell them apart. If you don't choose any colors, the colors from your theme are used.

Background image (optional)

Fills the whole slide. If the image doesn't have the same proportions as the slide, it's scaled and cropped to fit. You can add separate images for landscape and portrait, and adjust filters like blur, grayscale, sepia, brightness and contrast.

Interaction image (optional)

Sits on top of the background image, next to the choices, and is never cropped. Use it for an illustration that goes with the question. Learners see it both before and after voting. It has the same orientation and filter options as the background image.

How the Poll Works for Learners

Voting

Learners tap or click options to select them. A hint below the choices tells them how many they can pick (for example "Select up to 2 options. 1/2 chosen.").
Once they reach the limit, the other options are locked. To change their pick, they first deselect an option.
They click the submit button. The button stays disabled until at least one option is selected.
A dialog lists their picks and asks them to confirm. They can go back or click Submit vote.
After submitting, the slide counts as completed and the results appear.

Results

The learner's own picks are marked with a "Your pick" badge.
Community results appear once at least 3 people have voted. Each option then shows a bar with a percentage and the number of votes. Until then, learners see a note saying how many people have voted so far.
Results refresh on their own while the slide is open, so learners can watch the numbers grow.

The percentage on the slide is the share of participants who picked that option. If learners can pick more than one option, the percentages can add up to more than 100%.

When input is closed

If you close the slide for a learning group in the Evaluation tab, learners in that group see the results instead of the voting buttons, even if they haven't voted yet. When you reopen it, the voting buttons come back for anyone who hasn't voted.

Requirements

Votes are saved online, so learners have to be signed in, and the community features need to be turned on for the cBook. If the cBook requires learners to accept a disclaimer, they have to accept it first. If any of these is missing, learners see a message instead of being able to vote.

Evaluating the Results

The Evaluation tab of a Poll slide shows how your learners voted.

Pick a learning group from the selector to see that group's results.
Results are shown as bars and as a table with Choice, Votes and Share, sorted from most to least popular.
Share here means the share of all votes cast, so the shares always add up to 100%.
Results for a group only appear once at least 3 people in that group have voted. This keeps individual votes anonymous.
Print prints the results of the selected group. It becomes available once 3 people in that group have voted.
Export to Excel lets you export several groups at once. Groups with fewer than 3 participants are skipped, and the export tells you which ones.
This is also where you open or close the slide for input, per learning group.

Step-by-Step Guides

Create a simple single-choice poll

Add a new Poll slide.
Click the title on the canvas and type your question, for example "Which topic should we cover next?"
Click each choice and type an option. Add or delete choices as needed.
On the Settings tab, turn on Limit how many can be picked and set Maximum selections to 1.
Switch the toolbar to Results to check how the results will look.

Let learners pick their top 3

Add your choices, for example six possible priorities.
On the Settings tab, turn on Limit how many can be picked.
Set Maximum selections to 3.
Add a line to the description like "Pick up to three that matter most to you."

Learners can still submit with just one or two picks. The limit only stops them from choosing more than three.

Run a live poll in a workshop

Build your poll and give the submit button a clear text, for example "Send my answer".
During the session, ask everyone to open the slide and vote. Results update on their own, so the group sees them grow.
When everyone has voted, open the Evaluation tab and close the slide for that learning group. Anyone who hasn't voted now sees the results.
Use the Evaluation tab to show or print the group's results for the discussion.

Make the two result layers match your branding

On the Appearance tab, open Result colors & legend.
Pick a color for the Your-vote layer, for example your brand's accent color.
Pick a clearly different color for the Community layer.
Optionally rename the labels, for example "My vote" and "Our team".
Switch to the Results preview to check the colors on the slide.

I took all labels from the creator's en.json and the Poll editor and player code. Three things to check before you publish:

Two kinds of percentages. The slide shows the share of people who picked each option. The Evaluation tab shows the share of all votes cast. I explained both, because with multiple picks allowed the numbers won't match.
Requirements section. I described the sign-in, community features and disclaimer checks in general terms. If your KB has an official name for the "community features" setting, swap it in.
Player strings. The learner-side texts I quoted (like "Submit my vote" and "Your pick") are the code defaults. The live text comes from the backend and might be worded slightly differently.