The Icon rating poll offers a highly visual and universally recognized way for audiences to provide quick, qualitative feedback. By using familiar symbols like stars, hearts, or thumbs up/down, you can capture sentiment in a way that feels intuitive and low-friction for participants.
The results of an Icon rating Poll on the Projector Panel
About creating an Icon rating Poll
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For an Event Session: Choose Poll: Multiple choice as the Session type. When you add the question, select Icon rating 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 Icon rating directly.
The Add interactivity to presentation screen showing a card for each Interactivity, including the types of Multiple choice polls
The main steps in creating an Icon rating Poll are:
- Setting the No. of steps. This is the number of icons a participant can use for their answer (e.g., a 3-star vs. 5-star scale). The default is 5.
- Selecting the icon style or shape to use. The options are Stars (default), Hearts, Thumbs Up, and Ticks (checkmarks).
The following image shows the fields for setting up an Icon rating poll in an Event Pigeonhole.
The following image shows the fields for setting up an Icon rating poll in a Presentation Pigeonhole.
Settings
You can change the settings to customise the Poll:
- 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 questions. Comments do not appear on the Projector Panel by default, but can be accessed.
- 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 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 an Icon rating poll in an Event Pigeonhole.
The following image shows the settings for an Icon rating 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