With a Multiple choice poll, a Presenter or Admin sets up questions and options for participants to vote on. Multiple choice polls give you instant insights as votes roll in and results update live on-screen in easy-to-read charts. It’s perfect for gathering quick opinions, understanding preferences, or making group decisions together.
Use this type of Interactivity to discover which topics resonate most with your audience, collect input on important decisions, or gauge sentiment on key proposals. Multiple choice polls give you instant insights as votes roll in.
A Multiple choice poll presented live on the Projector Panel
Multiple choice poll types
There are several types of Multiple choice polls on the Pigeonhole Live platform.
| Type | Description | Use cases |
| Text | Options are presented as written choices (words, short phrases, or sentences). |
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| Image | Each option is represented visually with an image, making the poll more engaging and intuitive. |
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| Icon Rating |
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| Numeric Scale | Options appear as fixed numbers (e.g., 1–5, 1–10) for rating questions. |
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| Draggable Scale | Respondents select any value on a continuous scale, giving more granular data than a fixed number scale. |
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| Ranking | Respondents point-and-click to order items by preference or priority. |
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About creating a Multiple choice Poll
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For an Event Session: Choose Poll: Multiple choice as the Session type. When you add the question, select the type of Multiple choice Poll from the Type drop-down list.
The drop-down list for selecting the type of Multiple choice Poll
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For a Presentation Interactivity: You can select the type of Multiple choice poll directly.
The Add interactivity to presentation screen showing a card for each Interactivity, including the types of Multiple choice polls
Next, you enter a Question for the audience and at least two Answer options.
The following image shows the fields for setting up a Multiple choice poll in an Event Pigeonhole. The image shows the fields for the default Poll type (Text / image choices).
The following image shows the fields for setting up a Multiple choice poll in a Presentation Pigeonhole
Settings
You can change the settings to customise the Poll:
- Votes per participant: Sets the maximum number of options each participant can vote for in this poll. Increase this value to allow multiple selections, or set it to 1 to limit participants to a single choice.
- Chart type: Specifies how the poll results are presented on the Projector Panel. Beyond aesthetics, certain chart types offer better on-screen readability, depending on the length and number of the poll options.
| Chart type | Description |
| Vertical Chart (default) |
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| Horizontal Chart |
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| Pie Chart |
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- Anonymous responses: When disabled (default), participants are asked to create a profile when submitting answers. The speaker or presenter can identify participants who submitted answers. When enabled, participants are not identified in the answers they post in the Audience Web App, Panels, and Insights.
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Comments: Enables respondents to comment on the single-question Multiple choice polls they participate in. Comments do not appear on the Projector Panel by default, but can be accessed by clicking in.
- Comment filtering: Enables an admin to manage audience comments by choosing to Allow, Edit, or Dismiss them. Only allowed comments are visible to your audience. You can enable or disable this comment filtering feature at any time, even while the Interactivity is live.
- Participants can see the live results after voting: Shows live results in the Audience Web App.
- Participants can change their vote: Enables participants to edit their votes after submitting them.
- Reactions: Allows participants to use emojis to react to moments in your live events, live streams, and on-demand videos. This option displays under More settings. It is available for plans with Reactions enabled.
The following image shows the settings for a Multiple choice Poll in an Event Pigeonhole.
The following image shows the settings for a Multiple choice Poll in a Presentation Pigeonhole.
Advanced Customisations
For Event Pigeonholes on paid plans
Consider editing the following options in the Advanced Customisations section. These options are available for Event sessions.
- Pre-poll message: A message shown to attendees before the start of the Poll. Use this space to share how responses will be used, as well as the estimated time to complete the Poll. This field is required and pre-filled with basic text by default. Limit: 500 characters. Line breaks are retained. Basic text formatting is supported through Markdown (see Markdown support).
- Post-poll message: This message is shown to attendees upon completion of the Poll. Use this space to show a thank you message for completing the Poll. This field is required and pre-filled with basic text by default. Limit: 500 characters. Line breaks are retained. Basic text formatting is supported through Markdown (see Markdown support).
The Advanced Customisation area of the settings for the Event Session. The Pre- and Post-poll messages are highlighted.
Viewing a Multiple choice Poll in the Audience Web App
The following image shows what a Multiple choice poll Interactivity looks like in the Audience Web App. The live results are shown because the setting “Participants see the live results after voting” has been enabled.
A Multiple choice poll Interactivity in the Audience Web App.