If you create a questionnaire with PollUnit, the results are only visible for administrators by default. But there are some cases where it makes sense to publish these results. Therefore you as the organizer can decide if results should be published.

The publication of survey results creates transparency. Scientific survey results can be checked and understood by other scientists. If you use a questionnaire for decision making or as a kind of vote, the publishing the results makes your survey more trustworthy. But also in public discourse you increase the credibility of your survey and allow insights into opinions and perspectives of the participants.

To publish the results automatically, you have to check the option »Publish survey results« in the »Advanced« step when using the survey maker. This allows every participant to see the results after filling out the questionnaire. You can change this option at any time by editing your survey. You can also publish the results when you close your survey.

Please keep in mind that published results should usually not contain personal data like addresses, names or even payment data!

Published at: 2022-12-22 08:07 PM

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Today we want to share a discussion we had with Michael O'Byrne who uses PollUnit for judging images. Particularly important in his case is a voting that is as uninfluenced / unbiased as possible. We believe that his requirements for PollUnit should also be of interest to many of you. Therefore we want to share them with you:

»In many cases, comments are a useful means of interaction and exchange of ideas. However, in any poll or survey where you are trying to rate an image or an idea, it is counterproductive to let your audience see the comments from others before they make their choice. [...]

Any one who expresses an opinion or gives information (that may be false, intentionally or not) will affect the outcome of the poll. In judging images, if a previous comment states »This is the best image by far«, that will result in other members rating it higher. Most people want to be agreeable. More so if the person who made the first comment is identified and is considered skilled or popular.«

Michael O'Byrne

This is why we integrated the »Private comment« feature. Once private comments are activated only the content owner, the comment creator and the admin can see comments. If a content owner answers a comment, it will also be visible to the creator of the answered comment.

In the advanced step when using the poll maker you can check »Private comments« in the »Allow comments« section. As an admin you can change this setting at any time. For example you can make comments visible after the voting is complete.

When we asked Michael if we could quote him for this blogpost, he gave us something else along the way. We are very happy about that!

»You can also share with them my opinion that your customer support has been outstanding.«

Michael O'Byrne

Published at: 2022-10-25 09:41 AM

Voting with private comments

With the help of tags or labels, content can be provided with additional keywords. The so-called tagging ensures that information is easier to find and to link.

The new PollUnit tagging feature allows you to tag and filter various data types. This results in various use cases.

With the help of tags you can mark your PollUnits, i.e. votes, surveys etc. as templates. If you then filter by »templates«, only these PollUnits appear and you can clone and process them.

If you use a PollUnit idea collection as a tool for feature requests, administrators can tag received feature requests and assign them to a category. Participants can then more easily find whether there were similar requests before.

Published at: 2022-08-02 01:34 PM

Tagging and grouping content

Our current Poll Maker update is aimed at the creators of a schedulings, votings and tables, who maintain close contact with their participants. Here it happens that the administrator should be able to change data or votes on behalf of the participants. E.g. a commitment to a certain date should be withdrawn, a date has become free or an information should be changed.

Of course, these details can or should be changed by the participants themselves. This is also intended in the standard case. In case of a loss of access data or in case of guest participations that cannot be reactivated, i.e. participations without an account and without access to the device of the participation, this can be helpful.

So that this function cannot be misused to manipulate voting results, these changes are recorded in the activity log, participants (if possible) are informed by e-mail and changed participations are marked with a warning. Furthermore, a participation can only be changed if it is visible to everyone. Votes and participations within anonymous polls or polls with hidden participants can not be changed. Thus nothing stands in the way of a club vote or similar.

Published at: 2022-06-28 11:45 AM

Change the participations o...

Today we introduce our new PollUnit type »Landing Page«. This type allows to create simple web pages without HTML knowledge. This page can be enriched with text, image and videos. As in our other types, you can apply your themes and logos or add an imprint.

You can add other PollUnits to a landing page and group your PollUnits of any kind.

For example, if you are using the PollUnit Poll Maker to create Photo Contests, you can link them as category to the landing page. You can also enrich every added PollUnit with text, images and videos. The PollUnits can then be accessed from the landing page. So it's enough to just share the link to the landing page.

Published at: 2022-05-10 08:56 AM

Publish and group multiple ...