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Polly Quick Start Guide

This guide highlights key Polly features, how to get started, and best practices for running effective pollys in your workspace.

Polly integrates seamlessly with your existing workplace tools, like Slack, Microsoft Teams, Zoom, Google Meet, Google Slides, PowerPoint, Jira, and ServiceNow so you can gather feedback and drive engagement wherever work happens. 🚀

Polly offers several features designed to help teams collect feedback, engage employees, and run interactive activities in Slack.

Polls & Surveys

Polls & Surveys allow you to collect quick feedback in Slack channels or run more in-depth surveys for People Analytics and decision-making.

Presentations

Polly in Presentations lets you run live polls during presentations and events, enabling real-time engagement and audience participation.

Suggestion Box / Q&A

Polly Q&A and Suggestion Box allows teams to collect feedback, run AMAs, and moderate questions during all-hands meetings or open discussions.

Standups

Standups help teams run asynchronous daily updates in Slack, reducing interruptions while maintaining visibility across the team.

Pulse Checks 

Pulse Surveys help measure employee sentiment and engagement over time using scheduling, reminders, and analytics features. You can also include demographics to analyze trends across teams.

Team Building

Create moments of connection with interactive games like Trivia and Hot Takes designed to boost team engagement.

🚀Getting Started with Polly

👩‍💻Add Polly to Slack

You can install Polly in your workspace through any of the following options:

✏️ Create a Polly

To create a poll or survey directly in Slack:

  1. Type /polly in any Slack channel.

  2. If posting in a private channel, first invite Polly using:

    /invite @polly

  3. Choose from different question types, including multiple choice.

  4. You can create recurring pollys to run on a schedule.

  5. Use a pre-built template or create your own in the Polly web app.

For step-by-step instructions, see the full guide on creating pollys.

🕒 Schedule a Polly

Recurring pollys allow you to automatically send polls at a defined frequency.

  • Configure your schedule using recurring pollys.

  • Recurrence timing and frequency are explained in the recurrence FAQs.

  • To edit a recurring polly, run the command:

/polly recurring
 

This will send a link to edit the polly in the web app.

🗣️ Respond to a Polly

Participants can respond to pollys directly within Slack.

Learn more about responding, snoozing, or muting pollys in this guide: Voting and Commenting in Slack

📝 Edit a Polly

You can modify a published or scheduled polly using the editing feature.

Learn how here: Editing a Published Poll or Survey

📊 View Results

Polly results can be accessed in two ways:

/polly results
 

You can also export results as a CSV file.

📈 Share Results

Polly allows you to share results with teammates or stakeholders.

Learn how to share them here: Sharing Polly Results

📖 Explore Templates

Templates help you reuse common pollys and reduce setup time.

You can:

🎤 Use Polly in Presentations

Polly can also be used during presentations for real-time audience engagement.

Options include: