{"id":132,"title":"Survey with free-hand sketches","description":"Create your online surveys in just a few steps and let participants paint, draw and sign.","post_text":"»One Picture is Worth Ten Thousand Words« Images can add significant value to text-only surveys. With our new Sketchpad feature, we therefore want to enable you to draw in your \u003ca href=\"https://pollunit.com/en/survey\"\u003eonline surveys\u003c/a\u003e. It is now possible to add sketchpads to your survey in addition to the familiar input types such as form fields and votings. Here participants can draw, paint and also sign directly.\r\n\r\nUse this feature to collect design ideas, explain complicated issues with a sketch or just for a fun survey with your friends!\r\n","created_at":"2021-07-02T09:32:41.453Z","updated_at":"2025-01-30T12:04:15.274Z","url":"https://pollunit.com/en/posts/132/sketches-in-surveys"}
{"id":131,"title":"Rate options and images in surveys","description":"Allow participants to prioritize and rate options. Options can be anything that can be expressed in text, as well as files, music, images and photos.","post_text":"Within your \u003ca href=\"https://pollunit.com/en/survey\"\u003eonline survey\u003c/a\u003e, you can now carry out several ratings. You can use the same voting types as in our \u003ca href=\"https://pollunit.com/en/voting\"\u003evotings\u003c/a\u003e. Our most popular voting types include star ratings, simple upvoting with hearts or thumbs, and \u003ca href=\"https://pollunit.com/en/tutorials/dot_voting\"\u003edot voting\u003c/a\u003e.\r\n\r\nThis allows participants in your survey to prioritize and rate options. Options can be anything that can be expressed in text, as well as files, music, images and photos. You can upload your images directly to PollUnit and we will create a small preview and a high-resolution derivative for full-screen mode for each image. Products and designs can be presented to your customers and feedback can be gathered.\r\n\r\nOptions and images are optimized for desktop devices and mobile phones. Thus, participants can comfortably cast their votes and fill out the questionnaire from home on their computer and laptop or on the go with their mobile phone.\r\n\r\nIn the PollUnit real-time analysis you get all kinds of insights about votes cast and the performance of the individual options and images.","created_at":"2021-04-08T10:07:21.502Z","updated_at":"2025-01-30T12:04:12.926Z","url":"https://pollunit.com/en/posts/131/rate-options-and-images-in-surveys"}
{"id":130,"title":"Happy Birthday PollUnit UG ","description":"PollUnit and the entire team is transferred to a separate company. This simplifies our administration and we have more time for cool features. ","post_text":"Dear PollUnit users,\r\n\r\nwe would like to inform you that our application PollUnit will be transferred to a new company. PollUnit will run in the future in our new company PollUnit UG (haftungsbeschränkt) and no longer in the Blutvoll Media Agentur UG (haftungsbeschränkt).\r\n\r\nBasically nothing will change for you. Your contact persons and the whole team behind PollUnit remain unchanged. All previous services and contracts, which you have concluded with Blutvoll Media Agentur, will be taken over by PollUnit and will continue without interruption. PollUnit UG will take over the business from April 1, 2021.\r\n\r\nFor us, life will be a bit easier, we have to take care of less bureaucracy and thus have more time for new PollUnit features.\r\n\r\nFor questions we are of course gladly available.\r\n\r\nBest regards\r\nYour PollUnit Team","created_at":"2021-02-22T09:47:22.082Z","updated_at":"2025-01-30T12:04:10.364Z","url":"https://pollunit.com/en/posts/130/happy-birthday-pollunit-ug%20"}
{"id":129,"title":"Change your voting layout for faster feedback!","description":"We make voting even easier with a simplified list view. Ideal for voting with hidden participants or a lot of options.","post_text":"With today's update we make PollUnit a bit more your \u003ca href=\"https://pollunit.com/en\"\u003eonline voting tool\u003c/a\u003e. Many of our users wished to be able to change the layout of \u003ca href=\"https://pollunit.com/en/voting\"\u003evotings\u003c/a\u003e. Besides the tabular view, where options and participants are visible, there is now also a simplified list view.\r\n\r\nIn the list view, all options available for voting are displayed one below the other. So the participants can easily navigate through all options and assign their votes.\r\n\r\n\u003ci\u003eYou will find the setting right in the first step when creating your vote. A small preview shows you how your vote will look like.\u003c/i\u003e\r\n\r\nThe list view is recommended if there are a lot of options to vote for, or the votes of the participants are hidden or only secondary. If the votes of the participants are not hidden, they can be queried via the context menu of the respective option. As admin you can also analyze and export participants and votes in the \u003ca href=\"https://pollunit.com/en/tutorials/evaluation\"\u003ePollUnit evaluation\u003c/a\u003e.","created_at":"2021-01-30T09:45:28.063Z","updated_at":"2025-01-30T12:04:07.996Z","url":"https://pollunit.com/en/posts/129/list-view"}
{"id":128,"title":"Secure votings with our new invitation features","description":"With the »Invitation Required« feature, you can ensure that only invited people can vote and access your PollUnits.","post_text":"With the »Invitation Required« feature, you can ensure that only Invitees can vote and access your PollUnits. Our update today extends this feature as follows:\r\n\r\nIf a person is invited, they will receive an email with a one-time link. If this one-time link is used, it cannot be used by other participants.\r\n\r\nPreviously, only people with PollUnit accounts could be invited or invited people had to register before they could participate. Now a registration is no longer necessary and it is now possible to limit the participation also to invited persons without a PollUnit account.\r\n\r\nYou can decide if an invitation is required only for voting or also for access. If you activate »Allow access with invitation only« only invited persons are allowed to see the PollUnit. If this option is deactivated, all people can see the PollUnit, but only invited people can vote.\r\n\r\nIn the invite dialog you can invite the participants by email. PollUnit will then automatically send a unique link per email address. It is now possible to write your own invitation text for the invitees.\r\n\r\nYou can also generate your own one-time links and share them e.g. via email or send them via WhatsApp, Threema, Signal etc. and make sure that everyone can \u003ca href=\"https://pollunit.com/en/tutorials/prevent_multiple_participation\"\u003evote only once\u003c/a\u003e.\r\n\r\nIf you are new to our \u003ca href=\"https://pollunit.com/en\"\u003eonline voting tool\u003c/a\u003e why not starting with our tutorial \u003ca href=\"https://pollunit.com/en/tutorials/create_your_first_poll\"\u003ecreate your first poll\u003c/a\u003e.","created_at":"2021-01-14T10:28:33.612Z","updated_at":"2025-01-30T12:04:05.575Z","url":"https://pollunit.com/en/posts/128/secure-votings-with-our-new-invitation-features"}
{"id":127,"title":"Adding a security layer for sharing admin rights","description":"Protect yourself against accidental sharing of your admin link. Creators with an account can now enable and disable admin links of their PollUnits.","post_text":"When you \u003ca href=\"https://pollunit.com/en/voting\"\u003emake your own voting poll\u003c/a\u003e, two random links are generated. A public participation link for the voters and an additional link for admins. Depending on the link the visitors get different rights. Without knowing the exact address, the PollUnits cannot be accessed by third parties. So even without a PollUnit account polls can be created and administrated together.\r\n\r\nIf you create a PollUnit with an account, the admin link is only accessible for you and members of \u003ca href=\"https://pollunit.com/de/tutorials/organization\"\u003eyour organization\u003c/a\u003e. If you want to share admin rights with other users, you have to activate the admin link for others. This new security setting is only possible with a PollUnit account.\r\n\r\nYou can find the new setting directly in your PollUnit in the »Admin link« tab. With a click on »Make admin link accessible for others« you activate or deactivate the public admin link.\r\n\r\n\u003ci\u003eAlso our free accounts benefit from this renewal.\u003c/i\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003ci\u003eIf you are new to PollUnit learn more about our \u003ca href=\"https://pollunit.com/en\"\u003eonline voting tool\u003c/a\u003e or check out our beginners tutorial »\u003ca href=\"https://pollunit.com/en/tutorials/create_your_first_poll\"\u003ecreate a poll\u003c/a\u003e«.\u003c/i\u003e","created_at":"2021-01-02T12:49:56.259Z","updated_at":"2025-01-30T12:04:02.935Z","url":"https://pollunit.com/en/posts/127/activate-or-deactivate-admin-links"}
{"id":126,"title":"A new invitation workflow for our poll maker","description":"Configure \u003e Check \u003e Invite: The new improved workflow which makes creating your PollUnits more comfortable.","post_text":"Right from the start, you were guided through five simple steps when using our \u003ca href=\"https://pollunit.com/en\"\u003epoll website\u003c/a\u003e to create your votings. From the basic settings, to the content of your poll, the design, advanced settings and last but not least the invitation to your PollUnit. That changes now!\r\n\r\nThe last step »Invite« is removed. Instead you will be directed to your PollUnit. Here you can see what you have created and may make changes. The functions from the »Invite« step are now directly accessible in your PollUnit. We have also simplified switching between admin- and participant view. The workflow is now: Configure \u003e Check \u003e Invite. We think that feels really good - but we are always happy about feedback!\r\n\r\n\u003ci\u003e At this point, we would also like to thank you for all the feedback, which has led us to make this change.\u003c/i\u003e\r\n\r\nThe workflow changes for all our PollUnit types. \r\n\r\nStay healthy!\r\nYour PollUnit Team","created_at":"2020-11-27T00:07:36.608Z","updated_at":"2025-01-30T12:03:59.307Z","url":"https://pollunit.com/en/posts/126/new-invite-workflow"}
{"id":125,"title":"Improved security and productivity with Single-Sign-On (SSO)","description":"SSO allows your users to authenticate to PollUnit through your company's existing identity providers.","post_text":"Single-Sign-On allows your users to authenticate themselves to PollUnit using the existing identity providers of your company. This means that your users only have to register once in the company network and can then use the services of PollUnit without a new user name and password.\r\n\r\nThe saved login time and reduced administrative effort increases productivity and usability for your employees. Since your employees do not have to create, update or reset any additional passwords, the SSO procedure also increases security and reduces the workload of your IT department.\r\n\r\nAs an Enterprise customer, you can now register one Single-Sign-On-Provider per \u003ca href=\"https://pollunit.com/en/tutorials/organization\"\u003ePollUnit organization\u003c/a\u003e.","created_at":"2020-10-24T20:15:07.313Z","updated_at":"2025-01-30T12:03:56.849Z","url":"https://pollunit.com/en/posts/125/single-sign-on-sso"}
{"id":124,"title":"Video contests now also available with Vimeo content","description":"Now you and your participants can also add Vimeo videos to your PollUnit video contests and vote for them.","post_text":"After we released our \u003ca href=\"https://pollunit.com/en/lab\"\u003eYouTube video contests\u003c/a\u003e as a public beta version about 4 weeks ago, we now have the first update. You can now also add videos from the video portal \u003ca href=\"https://vimeo.com/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eVimeo\u003c/a\u003e.\r\n\r\nVimeo is a platform where anyone can upload their own videos via a free account. PollUnit now allows you to combine these videos into a video contest and vote on the content. The usual PollUnit evaluation methods are available to you. Besides Vimeo videos, YouTube videos can also be added.","created_at":"2020-10-22T20:49:25.995Z","updated_at":"2025-01-30T12:03:54.269Z","url":"https://pollunit.com/en/posts/124/vimeo-video-contests"}
{"id":122,"title":"Now in public beta: YouTube contests and music contests","description":"We open our laboratory and release two new experimental PollUnit types. With YouTube and music contests you can now also upload and vote on video and audio data.","post_text":"We have two brand new PollUnit types for you. Furthermore, there is now the \u003ca href=\"https://pollunit.com/en/lab\"\u003ePollUnit Lab\u003c/a\u003e - a place for experiments, fulfilled user wishes and ideas of our developers. All functions in the lab are released as public beta versions. That means they are 100% functional but haven't been used extensively and we are especially missing user feedback. So try it out and give feedback.\r\n\r\nBut now to the new functions...\r\n\r\n\u003cstrong\u003eYouTube contests\u003c/strong\u003e allow you to create polls for different YouTube videos. Your participants can post their links and you or your jury can vote for them.\r\n\r\n\u003cstrong\u003eMusic contests\u003c/strong\u003e allow you to create playlists, upload MP3s, listen to and rate them. Not only suitable for contests, but also for bands that want to share their playlists with fans.\r\n\r\nBoth PollUnit types use most of our standard PollUnit functions. So you can change the voting type, define deadlines, comment, restrict access etc.\r\n\r\n\u003ci\u003eYou are missing a function that would fit well to PollUnit? Asking costs nothing! At \u003ca href=\"mailto:support@pollunit.com\"\u003esupport@pollunit.com\u003c/a\u003e or in the \u003ca href=\"https://pollunit.com/forum/feature-requests-board\"\u003eforum\u003c/a\u003e we might be able to help you.\u003c/i\u003e","created_at":"2020-09-12T17:00:18.527Z","updated_at":"2025-01-30T12:03:49.661Z","url":"https://pollunit.com/en/posts/122/youtube-and-music-contests"}