Recommendations for running real-time voting poll with open-ended text fields?

We are hosting a virtual costume contest and want attendees to vote for each of their favorite categories during the team call.

What recommendations do you have to pull this off successfully? There are 5 categories for voting, including best overall. It is also impossible for us to pre-load a survey or multiple choices with names and/or voting options as the costumes will be revealed and need to be written in real-time. We are also expecting 25+ attendees, so pre-populating a multiple choice with expected names won’t be feasible.

Is there a template for this use case?

I am new to Slido and have currently set it up as multiple polls with word clouds, each integrated into the meeting PPT. The tutorial videos indicate the more popular words will be larger, but we prefer to see actual voting numbers (if even only me and a meeting collaborator). I am not finding how best to tabulate such results for the open text words, nor how best to export the outcomes for each poll question. Thank you!

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Hello @ALowe

thanks for all the details. I would advice using multiple-choice poll in case you need to see number of votes. You can also set the multiple choice in a way that it wouldn’t show % but actual numbers. Here is a guide showing how to do that:

When it comes to pre populating the questions. You could theoretically create polls with options called A,B,C,D or something similar and then the costumes would have similar names so that your participants understand the logic of voting.

What I would point is that I would advice restricting access to specific e-mails added to Slido. That way you can make sure that there are no other people voting (using some incognito browsers or 2 devices for more votes) that could ruin the results.

Here is a guide showing how to do that:

Please keep in mind that it would be possible to resrict access only in Professional and higher plan of Slido.

Feel free to ask if you have any additional questions.

Thanks, Ondrej. Unfortunately, I won’t have all 25+ attendees’ names/costumes to create a multiple-choice or A-B-C-D option for voting before the meeting (it would take the whole alphabet).

Instead, I have created open text question and manually counted votes we received in each category polling question.

I could see this becoming unwieldly if there weren’t clear favorites in our case - it would be great to have a smarter functionality for consolidating and voting in the future!

Hey @ALowe ,

Glad to hear you found a way to successfully execute your use case and for sharing with us.

We will share your feedback to the team.

Let us know if you have any other questions.

Best,