Poll Tool

Poll Tool#

Tags: educator reference

This section describes how to include polls in your course.

Overview#

You can include polls in your course to gather learners’ opinions on various questions.

For a poll, you configure one question and multiple possible answers. If you need to ask multiple questions, use the Survey Tool.

The following example poll has four possible answers to the question.

The poll component in Studio, showing the default example poll.

After learners submit their answers to the poll question, they see the poll results that have been gathered at this time, unless the poll has been configured to hide results.

A poll showing results after the learner has submitted a response.

Enable the Poll Tool#

Before you can add a poll to your course, you must enable the poll tool in Studio or OLX (open learning XML).

To enable the poll tool in Studio, you add the "poll" key to the Advanced Module List on the Advanced Settings page. (Be sure to include the quotation marks around the key value.) For more information, see Enabling Additional Exercises and Tools.

See also

Add a Poll in edX Studio (how to)

Poll Tool for OLX (reference)

Enable the Poll Tool in OLX (reference)