Present a Webinar: How to Add Polls

Present a Webinar: How to Add Polls


Yes, polls are a great way to get easy, fast information from your audience. Polls are added within the Presenter Console. To add a poll, log into the Presenter Console and click on the Contents icon on the left.



Select the Polls tab and select "Click here to add". 


Enter the details for your poll. 

  1. Type question here: Enter your poll question. 
  2. Type question description here: Enter additional information regarding your question. 
  3. Select the type of list you want to use for your poll using the drop-down. 
    • Checkbox List: Using this option, your attendees can select more than one option. Each checkbox operates individually so a user can toggle each response on or off.  
    • Radio List: Options operate as a group and provide mutually exclusive selection values. 
    • Text Area: Use Text Area questions to collect a paragraph or two of text. For example, ask attendees to provide additional feedback in their own words.
    • Text Field: Use Text Fields questions to collect a single word or short sentence response. For example, name, street address, or city.
  4. Options: Enter the options for the question. 
  5. Hide After Live: Select this option to hide the poll when it's played On-Demand.
The following is an example of a poll about your favorite color. Enter the information on the Add Poll page and click Add. 

The results will appear in the Poll tab. You can edit or delete your poll from this tab after it is created. 


The presenter will have the ability to push the results of the poll to the audience if the poll has the question type of Checkbox or Radio List. If the poll has the question type of Text Area or Text Field then the presenter will not be able to push the results of the poll to the audience. 

For On-Demand webinars, select the "Display Results During On-Demand" checkbox if your presenter pushed results to the audience during the Liver webinar and you want to include those same results in your On-Demand webinar.


When pushing results out to the audience, although there is a Refresh Result hyperlink, the results will automatically refresh.



With Producer Control Enabled - You can restrict polling actions to just the producers listed on your event roster. 
With producer control enabled, navigate to the "Producer Panel" located inside on the left-hand rail.  
It's from here that you can enable "Poll Control" - Allowing only those in the producer control list to:
  1. Only Producers can push results to the audience.  
  2. Only Producers can “refresh” poll results. When refreshed, all results will be seen by all presenters
  3. Only Producers can “refresh” poll results for Attendees after the Poll has been pushed



For further assistance, contact us through chat or send us an email at support@webinar.net.
    • Related Articles

    • Reporting: Activities - Polls

      This report shows the various poll responses that were pushed to the audience during your webinar. Activity reports are found on the lefthand navigation within webinar.net's reporting module. You can click the export icon which will generate a report ...
    • Present a Webinar: How to Add URLs

      URLs are added from the Presenter Console.   To add a URL, log into the Presenter Console and select the Contents icon in the left-hand navigation. Select the URLs tab, and select Click here to add.  Enter the details for the URL.    Title: Add a URL ...
    • Add another user to your webinar.net account

      If you are the owner of your webinar.net account, you can give other users access to the service features included in your subscription. Each time you give access to a user, you are assigning one seat. Navigate to Account Settings by selecting your ...
    • Present a Webinar: How to Advance Slides

      We recommend that you upload your slide presentation ahead of time and thoroughly test both your webinar and slides before going live. Once your slides have been successfully uploaded and rearranged within Slide Organizer, you should preview all ...
    • Present a Webinar: View Slide Notes

      If you want to see notes while presenting, simply add notes to your PowerPoint. You will see "Open Notes" in the lower right-hand corner of the slides which contain presenter notes. Clicking on "Open Notes" will display the following window next to ...