Template based poll
The Poll Plus app provides some pre-filled template polls. These are some of the most commonly used polls, and pre-filling them saves you from manually typing all the options.
Overrated/Underrated poll
This poll provides options including "Overrated," "Highly Rated," "Never Tried," and "Underrated." You can use it to get feedback about the publicity of a particular feature in your company.
1-to-5 poll
This poll allows users to rate a particular subject between the numbers 1-5.
1-to-10 poll
This poll allows users to rate a particular subject between the numbers 1-10.
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User-defined options
With the Poll Plus app, you can allow or disallow users from adding options to an already created poll. When creating a poll, select the option to allow or disallow users from adding options to the poll.
An Add Choice button is displayed below during the poll if you allow users to add choices.
To add a new choice,
Click the Add Choice button. A modal form is displayed.
Enter the new option and click Add. The new option is now added to the poll.
Word Cloud
In addition to the generated bar graph, the Poll Plus app provides users with the option to summarize the poll results in a word cloud. The word cloud feature uses a word cloud API for fetching these.
Learn more about setting up a word cloud API from the configuration settings guide.
Mixed visibility polls
The Poll Plus app allows users to set some reply options as confidential while others are open. This means that users who select the anonymous option will have their identities hidden.
To enable mixed visibility,
Set the visibility to "Mixed Visibility Vote" when creating the poll.
On clicking Create, the Mixed Visibility modal pops open. Select the options you would like to be "Anonymous".
Once the poll is created, options that were selected to be "Anonymous" will conceal the voter identities with the "Anonymous" label .
Votes casted on the options marked as "Anonymous" would still be counted within the total votes.
Live poll
Live polls are an array of regular, multi-question, timed polls. Live polls can be triggered with the /poll live <number of polls> command, where <number of polls> denotes the number of polls to be included within the Live poll.
Each poll within a Live poll has a time limit to vote upon, after which the current Poll ends, and the next one is posted. Poll creators can also click on the “Next Poll” button to trigger a pre-scheduled finish of the current Poll. The "Time limit to vote" for each poll is the number of seconds it can be active.
Some excellent use cases for the Live poll are stand-up and retro meetings. Another use case is for teachers wanting to conduct timed quizzes on Rocket.Chat. Additionally, if you're outside the UTC time zone, you can configure the Poll Plus app to match your local time zone. For more information, refer to the configuration document.
Late retrieval
Live polls include an additional feature called Late Retrieval, which allows them to be posted later. To use the Late Retrieval feature, make use of the save subcommand in the format: /poll live save <number of polls> where <number of polls> denote the number of polls you want included within the Live Poll.
After the Live poll is created, a message along with the poll ID to retrieve it will be visible only to the poll creator. Make use of the /poll live load <id> command to "play" the Live Poll, where <id> is the poll ID visible to the poll creator. In case the user enters a wrong or non-existent Live poll ID a notification message, only visible to the user, is sent within the room.
Speaking of teachers using Rocket.Chat for exams, the Live poll late retrieval features prove an excellent tool for teachers to create quizzes even weeks before and then easily schedule the quiz on D-day. All this while having control over the time limit to answer each question.