• Asking Questions during a Session
• Editing Question Files
• Deleting a Polling File
Polling, NHWC’s Question and Answer application, is a powerful communication tool that you can use to gather information from other participants. Use it to prepare knowledge assessments before any session or on-the-fly to gather feedback from attendees on important issues. Whichever way you decide to use Polling, this chapter will get you started by describing how to use it both within and outside a session.
What Is Polling?
Polling is NHWC's question and answer tool. Use Polling to ask your attendees a series of multiple choice questions during a session. You can make up questions before a session, or add them on-the- fly. When you ask a question, attendees see it and all its possible answers in their Polling Tab. Each attendee can select an answer, and can change his or her answer for as long as the question is available. The leader or floor holder’s window updates automatically as attendees select their answers.
Answer Statistics
As attendees answer a question, you see a bar chart of their responses. The bar chart is continually updated as they send and change their answers. You can share the bar chart with everyone.
Answer Details
As attendees answer, you can also view the answer details to see which attendees chose each answer.
Floor Control
As with other NHWC session tools, the floor holder and the leader control Polling. While an attendee has the floor, he or she can open question files, create new questions, ask questions, and view and share the results with everyone.
Making a Question List before a Session
You can create and upload a Polling file before a session so that you can launch it during the session. You can choose whether the Polling file will be available “in session,” on users’ home pages, on the “Public Sessions” page, and or in e-mail invitations.
To Create a Polling Question List
A Polling Question List can be prepared as a new Content item using the Communications Center. To a new question list:
1. Log in to your Communications Center
2. Click Content from the navigation menu and click Add New Content. 3. From the drop down menu, select Polling.
Figure 61: Add Content - Polling
4. Fill in the required information (Owner and Title) and a description, if needed.
5. In the Polling section, a default first question appears. To edit this question and answers: a. Click Question Text and a text field appears. Type in your new question and hit
<ENTER> or click Save Change. Additionally, if you hover over the question text, a command line appears to the right with actions you can take on that question.
b. Change the default text in your new answer and hit <ENTER> or click Save Change. Additionally, if you hover over the answer text, a command line appears to the right with actions you can take on that answer.
c. To add answer options, click Add Answer. 6. To add questions, click Add Question.
a. Click Question Text and a text field appears. Type in your new question and hit <ENTER> or click Save Change. Additionally, if you hover over the question text, a command line appears to the right with actions you can take on that question.
b. Change the default text in your new answer and hit <ENTER> or click Save Change. Additionally, if you hover over the answer text, a command line appears to the right with actions you can take on that answer.
c. To add answer options, click Add Answer.
7. Repeat step 6 until you have created all your questions and answer sets. 8. Determine the access authority for this set of questions and answers. 9. When finished, click Submit.
The Polling item you just created can then be added as a Content item to any session. When creating your session, you can choose Content from the Library. All Polling lists created in your
Communications Center are available in the Library based on the Access settings for each list. To Create a XML File of Questions
You may wish to create and edit your questions using XML. Once you complete your XML file, you can then import that file as a new Content item for any session. See the next section for steps on
importing your XML file.
To download a sample XML file:
1. Log in to your Communications Center.
3. From the drop down menu, select Question and Answer.
4. From the Question and Answer area, click the Download File link.
5. A sample XML file will open on your computer. You can then choose to save that to a local machine or network drive. Once saved, you can edit the Question and Answer text of the file to create your own custom questions by opening the XML file in a text editor or word
processing application. To Upload the Question File
In the Communications Center, locate the session to which you would like to add the Polling file and click the Edit link. In the Content section of the edit session page, choose Question and Answer from the drop down menu and click Add.
In the popup window, click the Browse button for the Import XML file. You can then navigate to the proper location on your local machine or network where your XML file is stored. When you return to the Add Content window, click Upload to process your file .
Questions in the imported file will replace any questions that already exist in this content item. If this is a brand new item, you will only be replacing the default question. When you are finished uploading questions from a XML file, click Submit. Click Cancel if you wish not to save this new Polling content item for your session.
Refer to Adding Content to Your Session for detailed instructions on adding content.