When choosing your tools, remember that the best tool for your course is generally
- What you and your students are most familiar with.
- What ensures all students have a way to participate.
- What's doable.
- What's supported by the university (you're going to need support).
Zoom Polls, UVACollab Polls, and Poll Everywhere are three tools you can use to conduct polls in your course.
Feature Comparison Chart
The following chart compares the features offered with Zoom Polls, Collab Polls, and Poll Everywhere.
Zoom Polls |
UVACollab Polls |
Poll Everywhere |
Microsoft Forms | |
Question Types |
Multiple choice (single or multiple answer) |
Multiple choice (single or multiple answer) |
Multiple choice (single or multiple answer), open-ended, word cloud, Q&A, clickable image, ranking (only in surveys), competition mode |
Multiple choice (single or multiple answer), ranking, rating, Likert scale, date selection |
Download results |
Yes (CSV) |
No |
Yes (CSV) |
Yes (Excel) |
Display Live Results |
Yes, only after all participants have responded |
Yes, see answers populate in real time |
No | |
| Participant Results |
Anonymous, display name through meeting registration, or display name by user authentication | Anonymous only | Anonymous or user registration to display username | Anonymous if instructor selects that; otherwise linked to user name in Teams account |
| Automatic Grading | No | No | Yes--read more here | Yes--read more here |
| Poll Collaboration Between Users |
No | Yes - info here | Yes - info here | Yes |
Zoom Polls
Zoom polls are launched within a Zoom session using the Polls button in your Zoom menu.
You can create a Zoom poll in your virginia.zoom.us account when you edit a meeting. Zoom has instructions on how to create and launch a poll, as well as how to download poll results. Zoom polls allows for multiple choice questions that can be either single or multiple answer. Both the meeting host and co-host can launch Zoom polls and display the poll results, but only the person who scheduled the meeting can create and edit the poll since it is in their Zoom account profile.
UVACollab Polls Tool
The Polls tool in UVACollab allows users to create single question multiple choice polls that can have one or more answers. The Polls tool can be added to your UVACollab site through Site Settings and is located in your site tool menu.
UVACollab Help has instructions on how to create a poll, see poll results, manage poll creation permissions, and how to take a poll as a student.
Poll Everywhere
Poll Everywhere is a UVA-supported polling tool that can be added to your UVACollab course site tool menu. You create Poll Everywhere activities on your Poll Everywhere account.
In Poll Everywhere, you can create multiple choice (single or multiple answer), open-ended, clickable image, word cloud, Q&A, and ranking questions. Each question is a single "activity", with the exception of a survey activity, which contains several question types, and competitions, which have several multiple choice questions and awards users for speed as well as accuracy.
When you activate a poll, it displays it on your PollEv.com response page. Using that URL, students can answer Poll Everywhere questions in their computer browser or on their mobile device.
For more information on using Poll Everywhere, visit its Learning Tech page.
Microsoft Forms Polls
If you are using Teams for your course home, you can create a poll, quiz or survey in Microsoft Forms. You can add Microsoft Forms as an app to your Teams homepage.
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