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Advanced poll features

Discover the flexibility of our voting tool. Choose from a variety of voting methods, add-ons and configure professional online votes according to your wishes.

Online voting

Whether star rating, comments, various security settings and much more - with PollUnit you have the choice. Here we explain how you can adapt your poll to your needs with our advanced settings.

Poll and voice types

If you are new to PollUnit, take a look at our introductory tutorial. Here we explain how you can adapt your survey to your needs with our advanced settings.

Create your first poll

In the first step of your poll creation you can open further settings for your online voting by clicking on »Advanced Schema Settings«.

The PollUnit type describes the type of options that participants can vote for. You can vote on dates, time spans, pictures, files and free text.

The vote type describes how your participants can vote. You can select Yes/No, Star rating and Dot-Voting. You'll find a more detailed explanation below.

An addon changes the scheme of your PollUnit (see scheme preview). You can use it to expand the contents of your options. You can unlock subtitles and links per option and assign them later in step 2.

You can define different targets. Pay attention to the schema preview when selecting. Scroll down for a list of the different poll targets.

Vote types

Yes / No

Voting with Yes, No and abstain. Negative votes are subtracted from positive votes.

Yes

Simple upvoting. Only positive votes are counted.

Upvote with like button

Simple voting by liking with thumb up symbol. With the target »Lowest resistance« the thumb up becomes a thumb down symbol.

Upvote with hearts

Simple voting with heart symbol. With the target »Lowest resistance« the heart becomes a broken heart.

Range voting

Participants can rate options with points from a given interval.

Ranked voting

Ranked voting is only possible in PollUnits with the type »survey«. Participants rate options by assigning them a personal order.

Star rating

Depending on the configuration, participants can rate options with 0-10 stars.

Dot-Voting

Dot Voting is a method to evaluate ideas and to prioritize selections and decisions in a group. And this is how it works:

  • Each participant receives a fixed number of points
  • Each participant distributes his points to the options
  • The option with the most points wins

With the voting target »lowest resistance« you can flip the rating and the option wins with the least negative votes.

Emoji-Voting

With the help of smileys the user can vote.

Superlative-Voting

A voter has to decide which option is the best. In combination with our voting categories voters can choose a favorite per category. You should name your voting categories in superlative. For example: Most Creative, Funniest, Best Outfit ...

Matrix / Scale

Matrix votes are only possible in PollUnits with the type »survey«. Popular matrices / scales can be easily selected. In the following step you can add questions. These will be displayed in rows.

Poll target

Find best option

The option with the most votes is the best option. Choose this, if for instance you want to find a common appointment.

Best distribution of options

This Method tries to distribute options among participants, so that everyone gets the option he/she likes.
Choose this method when for example, you want to create a service schedule: A set of dates has to be distributed among the participants.

Lowest resistance

This method is looking for the option with the highest acceptance in a group. Your participants can cast resistance votes. The options with the least rejection wins.

Poll and voice types

In step 2 you can set the options as usual. In the advanced settings (step 4) you can also allow participants to add their own options to your poll.

If you have activated the »Subtitle« addon, you can enter an additional free text for each option.

If you have activated the »Link« addon, you can also enter a link title and a URL for each option. This allows you to provide further information for each option.

In the advanced settings (step 4) you can activate a variety of additional functions for your poll. Simply check the desired feature and continue.

Many of the functions can also be activated when you edit your existing PollUnit. The functions that can no longer be changed are marked with a red X. Below you will find a list with the possible functions for your poll.

PollUnit Features explained

Allow new options / images / columns

Allows participants depending on your PollUnit type to add new options / images / columns to your PollUnit.

Comments

Your PollUnit's participants are allowed to write comments.

Private »Hide Votes«

In a private PollUnit with hidden votes, participants cannot see other participants' votes. However the creator can view the result at any time.

Private »Hide voters«

In a private PollUnit with hidden voters, participants cannot see voters. Even after the PollUnit is closed, the voters remain hidden. However the creator can view the result at any time

Single select

Participants have to decide for one option. If they assign another vote, the previous one is removed. For multiple submission categories, this applies per category, meaning one vote can be cast per category.

Limit per option

Control how many participants can vote for the same option. You can only change the limit type if no votes have been cast yet.

Voting start and deadline

Set a start time and/or deadline if you want to allow voting only in a certain period of time. The time you choose is your local time.

Submission start and deadline

Set a start time and/or deadline if you want to allow submission only in a certain period of time. The time you choose is your local time.

Password protection

Secure your PollUnit! Users can only participate and view the PollUnit's result if they know the password.

Randomize options / images / columns order

To avoid order bias, you can shuffle the options / images / columns for each user.

Invitation and PollUnit account required

When »Invitation and PollUnit account required« is selected, only users who have received an invitation can participate in this PollUnit (Users must have a PollUnit account or have to register when they receive the invitation).

Further tutorials

Create your first poll

Advanced survey branching logic

Distribute tasks online

Cast votes and rate options

Find a date

Vote on images

Create your own theme

Polls with your own logo

Evaluate your PollUnit

Dot Voting

Range Voting

Polls on your own website

Live Voting

Reach a consensus

Manage orga­nizations

Prevent multiple participation

Donations and participation fees

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