The “Polls” menu

Accessing the menu

Creating a poll

Voting

Requesting a vote

With a mediaboard

With an action

Displaying poll results

With a results mediaboard

With an action

With a broadcasting mediaboard

Reusable Agree/Disagree poll

Creating the poll and display mediaboard

Reusing the opinion poll

Poll management as a Presenter

FAQs

Poll questions

Can I make the poll question appear larger in the 3D environment when voting?

The “Polls” menu

The “Polls” menu shows a list of your active polls. Each line has three parts.

1. The poll’s ID (used in Actions)
2. The poll’s question
3. The control menu

1. More… opens a section with the poll’s details, and some additional controls
2. Request vote shows the poll to everybody in the same 3D environment
3. Open/Close is used to open and close the poll

Within the “More…” section, each poll shows:

1. Whether it is open (accepting new votes) or closed
2. Its options, alongside the votes for each
3. Buttons to manage voting and the poll itself: create a mediaboard to display poll results, display results on existing broadcasting mediaboard, or one that allows casting a vote when clicking on it, as well as reset the poll (i.e. delete all existing votes) and delete it

Accessing the menu

To access polls, open the side menu (1), then click on the Polls button (2)

Creating a poll

To create a poll, open the Polls menu and click on the green New poll button

You will be brought to the creation form.

1. The question is the “title” of your poll
2. The options are the choices available to users; you can add more by clicking on the blue “New option” button
3. When you have completed writing the poll, save it by clicking on the green Create poll button

Voting

When a poll has been created, voting can take place in a number of ways, though the most effective one depends on the type of experience or conference the poll is in.

Requesting a vote

By requesting a vote, all users currently connected that have not yet voted in the poll will be shown the choice, and they can either submit their preferred choice or click on Exit to not vote.

With a mediaboard

To display poll results as a chart in the 3D environment:

1. Open the Polls menu
2. Click on the More… button of the poll you’re interested in
3. Click on Create voting mediaboard

When interacting with the mediaboard, users that have not voted yet will be shown the poll’s options

With an action

It’s also possible to ask for the user to vote by clicking on any object. You can find more details on the Actions API reference, specifically the displayPoll action.

Displaying poll results

Poll results can be displayed in a number of ways.

With a results mediaboard

To display poll results as a chart in the 3D environment:

1. Open the Polls menu
2. Click on the More… button of the poll you’re interested in
3. Click on Create results mediaboard
4. Select the type of chart
5. Click OK

A mediaboard will be added to the space. It will update when loading/reloading the space, or when clicked on.

With an action

It’s also possible to display poll results with an action. Details can be found in the Actions API reference, specifically in the displayPollResults section.

With a broadcasting mediaboard

1. Open the Polls menu
2. Click on the More… button of the poll you’re interested in
3. Click on Display results in mediaboard
4. Select a broadcasting mediaboard to show the results
5. Select the type of chart
6. Click OK

Reusable Agree/Disagree poll

You can create a simple poll for reuse during presentations, to gauge audience opinion on evolving topics, or simply to encourage audience engagement.

Creating the poll and display mediaboard

1. Create a two option poll using the steps shown in the Creating a poll section.

1. Enter the question as “Agree or Disagree?” or something similar
2. Enter “Agree” and “Disagree” as the options.

2. Click on the “More” button next to the new poll question. Click “Create results mediaboard.”

3. Choose whether to display the results in a bar chart or pie chart.

4. Click OK.

5. The results mediaboard will appear in the space.

6. In Editing mode, click on the gear icon on the mediaboard to bring up its settings menu.

7. In the Tag field, place a name for the poll, such as “opinion.”
   

8. Click “Save item”
   

9. After placing the mediaboard within the space, you can use the Eye icon in the top right menu to Show or Hide the results mediaboard.
   

Now this mediaboard will display the results of the current opinion request. You can request a vote on this poll using the method in the Requesting a vote section.

Reusing the opinion poll

To reset and reuse the poll throughout the presentation:

1. Open the hamburger menu (or logo)  in the top left toolbar and select Polls.

2. Click on the “More” button next to the new poll question. Click “Reset poll.”
   

3. The results on the left will return to “(current votes: 0)”

4. Clicking on the results mediaboard within the space will reset the display to show the new results.

Poll management as a Presenter

Users with a Presenter role can create, reset and request votes for polls, but cannot Create voting or results mediaboards.

Presenters can still display results on broadcasting mediaboards.

FAQs

Poll questions

Can I make the poll question appear larger in the 3D environment when voting?

To make the question text larger, simply wrap your question in <big></big> tags.

For example: