What is Zoom?
Zoom is a conferencing platform to which employees have access through Montgomery College. Employees can access it at https://montgomerycollege.zoom.us. Zoom continues to add and improve features as it attempts to keep up with demand and competition, and it has recently released new polling features that can enhance online classes.
How will the polling features enhance the online class experience?
The polling feature allows you to create single-choice or multiple-choice questions, while advanced polling adds matching, ranked choice, and short- and long-answer options. Instructors can also set correct answers to use the poll function as a quiz.
Instructors will be able to launch it during class and gather the responses from students. Full details of the results, such as each student’s answers and submission times, are contained in the polling results, which are available after the meeting by default but can also be made available during the live session. Polls can also be conducted anonymously if the professor does not wish to collect participant information with the poll results. Instructors can create and launch basic or advanced polls in class or create them outside of any specific class, save them, and enable them with all classes.
Where can I learn more about polls?
The Zoom support area has information about the features and describes how to create, save, and launch basic and advanced polls. A good place to begin is on the starter page at https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/4412325214477. The page lists technical perquisites and advanced polling’s limitations.
Examples of the Instructor Set-Up View
From the Zoom Home Page
Advanced Poll image and short answer response
Poll with a set answer
Advanced Poll: matching
Advanced Poll: rank order
