Quizzes in Teams

Learn the ins and outs of creating a quiz in Microsoft Teams with Polly

Polly quizzes are are a great way to quickly engage your audience or class in real time, to test their knowledge! Educators use this feature to quickly and easily quiz mid-lesson, while teams use them to collaborate in real-time on many areas of knowledge.📚

Where can I create a quiz?

Polly quizzes can be used in Team Meetings as well as normal Teams channel. 

When can I create a quiz?

Quizzes can be created either in advance, and saved for use, or quickly created in real-time.

How do I create a quiz in a Teams Channel

1. From the 📌pinned Polly tab in your Meeting Chat, select Create, and choose Quiz as your Polly type.
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2. Title your quiz, add a description (optional) and begin adding questions. You can add up to 50 multiple choice questions. 
3. Each question will allow you to select a correct answer by clicking on the ✔️checkmark beside it.
    
4. Once you have entered all of your questions and answers, configure your Quiz settings. You can choose the following settings: 
   👁️Result Visibility (show after close, hidden from audience) 
   🕗Send (now, or schedule)
   🕑Close (hour, month or manual date)
   
   
5. Click on ▶️Send now to send the quiz to your conversation. 

How do I create a quiz in a Teams Meeting

Clicking Save will save the quiz and you will see it ready for use in your meetings pinned Polly tab. Note that clicking Send Now will send the quiz.

1. Begin by creating a Teams Meetings with your chosen audience. 
2. Once your attendees join the meeting, you'll be able to add Polly as an add app by clicking on the button > ➕Add an app.  
   
   
3. Add Polly as an app to the Meeting by clicking on Add in the new window. 
4. Click on Quick Create to begin authoring your Trivia questions. 
   
   
5. Click on Quiz and begin authoring your polly by giving it a Title, Description (option) and enter the choices while clicking on ✅ to signify the correct answer. 
   
6. Your questions will begin to display to your audience for them to choose. 
   
7. Once the Quiz ends, the results will be displayed to the audience displaying the correct choice and number of votes.
   
   
   

How do I take a quiz?

As questions appear in the right hand pane of the Live Meeting, answer each. Polly will tell you if you answered correctly and proceed to the following question until all have been answered.

How do I view quiz results?

If you have chosen to share your results after the quiz closes, you can view them in the right hand panel of your meeting. You can also view them from the Meeting Chat window within Microsoft Teams, and access them under the 📌pinned Polly tab.