The Open-ended Poll in Pigeonhole Live is designed for collecting unrestricted, free-form text responses from your audience. This feature moves beyond simple multiple-choice to facilitate dynamic brainstorming, in-depth feedback collection, and democratic discussions.
The real differentiator is that after participants submit their ideas, you can allow the entire audience to vote and comment on those entries. This instantly surfaces the best ideas and transforms your session into a collaborative experience.
Key Benefits:
- Crowdsource Ideas: Get original content and suggestions.
- Prioritize Democratically: Use voting to quickly identify the most valuable submissions.
- Boost Engagement: Encourage interaction and discussion around peer-submitted content.
The results of an Open-ended Poll on the Projector Panel
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.
- Answer filtering: When enabled, all submitted answers go through moderation on the Admin Panel before they appear on the slide.
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Comments: Allows participants to provide extra context, explanations, or suggestions alongside their answer. Other participants or the presenter can view and, depending on settings, like or reply to comments. This functionality encourages discussion and richer insights, rather than just single-line answers. 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.
- Attendees can view Poll even after it has ended: When enabled, attendees can continue to view the Poll beyond the end time, but will not be able to submit new answers. This setting is only available for Event Pigeonholes.
- New answer alert on open-ended poll slide: When enabled, new answers display on the slide in the Projector Panel and Admin Panel with a “New” indicator.
- Reactions: Allows participants to use emojis to react to moments in your live events, live streams, and on-demand videos. Available for plans with Reactions enabled.
The following image shows the screen for setting up an Open-ended Poll Session in an Event Pigeonhole.
The following image shows the screen for setting up an Open-ended Poll Interactivity in a Presentation Pigeonhole.