Hello and welcome to our step-by-step guide for setting Poll elements into your module on Teachfloor.
What is Poll?
(See screenshot below)
Polls are an excellent tool for collecting feedback, gauging sentiment, or encouraging reflection without grading. With Teachfloor's Poll element, instructors can create multi-question, non-graded surveys that are easy to deploy and simple for learners to complete.
Whether you’re collecting feedback after a lesson, conducting a pre-course survey, or just keeping your content learner-centered—Polls help you create an open loop of communication that drives engagement and continuous improvement.
➕ How to Add a Poll Element
To get started:
Navigate to the Curriculum page of your course.
Click (+ Add Element) on the left-hand side.
Scroll to the Assessment Tools section and select Poll.
This will add a new poll block to your lesson where you can customize its settings and build your survey questions.
(See screenshot below)
⚙️ Step 1: Configure Common Settings
The Poll element, like all others on Teachfloor, supports several common configurations:
Cover Image
Title and Description
Additional Resources
Display Description on Top
Requirements (prerequisites)
Visibility (audience segmentation)
Metadata (for internal categorization)
📘 To learn more about how these options work across all elements, see:
⚙️ Step 2: Poll settings
Now, coming up to the main poll settings.
(See screenshot below)
Deadline - If the poll needs to be completed within a certain timeframe, the deadline can be set here.
Reminders - If the poll needs to have reminders for the deadline, the reminders can be set here.
Hide results - Enable it if you want to hide the results from the learners who answer the poll.
Hide Index - it will hide the automatically generated numbering of the questions.
How to write questions on a poll?
When you will click on Add Question, a new window will appeared as below;
(See screenshot below)
Once "Write question here." appears, click on it, and you will see that its options boxes will also appeared.
(See screenshot below)
Now, use the following instructions to write questions and answers of your poll.
Click on “Write Question Here.” to proceed, and write you questions.
Click on “Option” for the multiple-choice answers.
You may click “Add New” to add more answer choices.
You may click “Add Question” to add more questions and follow the same steps in adding answer choices.
How to add new answer?
Click on Add answer button to add new and more answers.
How to add new question?
Click on Add question button to add new and more question .
From learners account.
Below is an example view for this newly built element. It displays the description, question(s), and answer choices.
Learners must click Submit Responses once done answering the question.
(See screenshot below)
Checking the results of responses.
There are two ways to check the results of the learner's responses. First is the aggregated results, and second is the individual results.
For aggregate results of their responses to the poll question, click Curriculum, then click the Poll element you have created. The page will display the number of respondents and the percentage of responses. See the example below.
On the other hand, if you wish to see the individual responses of the learners, click Activities, click the Lesson where the poll question belongs, then click the Poll element you have created. The page will display the name of all respondents, the date of submission, and their individual responses. See the example below.
🧠 Use Cases & Best Practices
Gather end-of-module feedback
Ask for topic preferences before live sessions
Run quick pulse checks on learner confidence
Keep it short: 1–3 questions is often enough
If you have additional questions, feel free to reach out via the chat box in the lower right corner. Our team is happy to help — and yes, it’s a real human 😊