Before you start with polls
- Only meeting owners and presenters can create, manage, and launch polls. Meeting attendees have the ability to respond to polls, but they can’t edit them.
- Polls in Teams are powered by Microsoft Forms but are used directly within Teams meetings and chats.
- Polls can be used in both scheduled meetings and channel meetings.
Polls are a great way of engaging with students during your online sessions and getting real-time feedback.
Live polls can be created in Microsoft Teams Meetings and within meeting chats or group chats. They can be set up before or during the session and launched when needed.
Create a poll in Microsoft Teams
You can create polls directly within a Teams meeting or chat using the polls icon. For step-by-step guidance, see the Microsoft support page on creating polls see the Microsoft guide on how to enable and create a poll.
You can launch a quick poll directly from the chat pane of a meeting or chat without the need to enable it first. Launching directly from the chat pane doesn’t give you all features however, and has more limited features compared to polls created in advance of the poll. Running a poll from the chat is ideal if you decide to get some impromptu student feedback you didn’t prepare in advance. Microsoft’s help guide ‘Add a poll to your Teams channel or chat‘ provides more information on this feature.
Guide last updated on May 21, 2026