Hi all! Below I’ve described how to create a poll on Discourse. If you have any questions or would like help trying it out, send me an email at lmackenzie@michaeljfox.org.
You can create a Discourse poll with multiple or single choice answers. To do this:
- Press the “+New Topic” button
- Click on the gear icon on the horizontal menu bar
- Select “build poll” from the dropdown menu
- Choose a title, answer options.
- Click on the gear icon to make more specific poll choices such as:
- Deciding who can see poll answers
- What form the poll answers display in
- Whether the admin (or others) can see who responded to the poll. This can be helpful if you want to ask targeted follow ups
You can find more detailed instructions on poll creation here: Create a poll that others can vote on - users - Discourse Meta
You can make changes to a poll for only five minutes after it’s posted, and after that making changes (which you’ll need to do in HTML) will cause responses to be cleared.