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Percentage of people who haven't answered.


I am trying to do a remote training activity for team members and I’m trying to find a way to gauge when to move on to the next task/topic. The closest I’ve come up with is a multiple choice question that asks “Have you finished the task? Y/N”  However, people only answer after they’ve finished the task, so they only ever answer yes and I only see the number of yesses.  What I don’t see is how many yesses compared to the whole.  What I was wondering is if there was a way to default the answer to no, so that when yesses come in it changes the no balance as well and I can get a gauge of how many have completed. 

e.g.  Let’s say there’s 20 people in the meeting.  I assign a task and ask if they’ve finished the task.  Right at the beginning it would automatically be 0-Yes, 20-No.  Then as time elapses people will change to yes and I might get to a 15-Yes, 5-No. 

 

At that point I might realize it’s a good time to move onto the next task. Is there a way to either default an answer or otherwise compare the number who have answered to those who haven’t?

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Hi ​@Reid B!

For this I would recommend setting this up on slido.com as a multiple choice poll with the two options.  

In the slido settings, you can change the setting for the polls to show in number of votes rather than a percentage.

And if you are using the slido in a webex meeting, after you’ve created it on slido.com- you can simply select the existing slido to add to your meeting.

Hope this helps!


  • New Participant
  • March 25, 2025

Forgive me, but I’m not seeing how this resolves my issue.  I want to be able to see how the “yes” responses compare to the total number of people in the webex.  People who are a “no” response aren’t going to answer the question so what I was hoping to do was auto-populate for everyone the “no” response and then they can proactively change to a “yes” as they finish.  That or if there was a clear indication somewhere just how many people in total were seeing the question regardless of if they answer or not.  


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Hi ​@Reid B,

If you set it up as I mentioned above, you’d be able to see the number of votes for each option in the slido poll (rather than a percentage).

To compare this to the number of participants that are in the meeting, you’d have to check the number of participants from the participants panel within the Webex meeting.

You can have everyone vote “no” at the start. And If you leave the poll active, participants who have already submitted will be able to click the “Edit Response” to change their vote to yes.

Hopefully that makes sense and will work for you!


  • New Participant
  • March 25, 2025

No unfortunately, I don’t think I’ll get much uptake on people voting no first and then voting yes.  Plus, I’m trying to track up to 20 or so tasks each time. So, to get them to do that for each task would be nearly impossible.  I could see being able to default an answer having other benefits/uses as well.  It might be worth adding that as a feature.  


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