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, unfiltered content and suggestions.
- Prioritize Democratically: Use voting to quickly identify the most valuable submissions.
- Boost Engagement: Encourage interaction and discussion around peer-submitted content.
Use this guide to add an Open-ended poll to your Presentation Pigeonhole and capture qualitative insights.
Step 1: Add the Open-ended poll
- Start a Presentation Pigeonhole by following Steps 1-2 in Create a Presentation Pigeonhole.
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If the Open-ended poll is the first Interactivity you’re adding to the Presentation, select the Open-ended poll card.
The “Add interactivity to presentation” page for a new Presentation. It shows the cards for all the Interactivity types.
If you already added other interactivities, select Add interactivity > Open-ended poll.
Adding an Interactivity to a Presentation that already has interactivities
A new slide is added to the Presentation. A card for the Open-ended poll displays in the left sidebar.
A new, empty Open-ended poll
Step 2: Add the Open-ended poll question
- In the right sidebar, click inside the Question field and enter the instruction or question you want participants to respond to with their open-text submissions.
Step 3: Configure settings
- (Optional) Configure advanced settings as needed:
- Anonymous responses: When disabled (default), participants are asked to create a profile when submitting answers. The organiser 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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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 fields for creating an Open-ended poll Interactivity
Step 4: Save your work
When you’re finished, select Save changes to save the Interactivity.
Step 5: Test the Interactivity
View the Q&A through the Projector Panel and Audience Web App, or practise hosting through the Admin Panel. To reset your data after testing, hover over the card for the Interactivity and select More options (…) > Clear responses.