A Note on Terminology: This article, along with many others in the online help, uses the term video to refer to certain media. Know that wherever video is used, the information and procedures provided also apply to any audio-only files you may have. Interactive media (video / audio with embedded polls) are specifically referenced where applicable.

Polls are activities or questions used as slides in your presentation decks or embedded as gating questions in your videos. Embedding polling in a video makes it interactive. Polls are designed to elicit student responses that you can review later.

Editing polls can be done in three places:

• the presentation editor
• the interactive media editor
• your Library

All three methods of accessing the poll editor are shown in this article.

For details on working with the five different kinds of polls available and the options each contains, see:

• Create or Edit a Multiple Choice Poll
• Create or Edit a Short Answer Poll
• Create or Edit a Numerical Poll
• Create or Edit an Image Poll
• Create or Edit an Ordered List Poll

The key point to understand about polls is that editing a poll in one location does not update it elsewhere.

As stated in Creating Polls, when you create a poll for a presentation or interactive media, that new poll also resides in your library for use later. But if you edit that poll in the interactive media, the library poll remains the same. And vice versa. The two items, while related at one time, are now two separate objects.

One way to think about it is to consider the polls in your library as templates. When you add one of those templates to media, you can edit its details to make it specific to the media without affecting the original. This disconnect also allows you to delete unneeded polls from your library without affecting any media they may have been placed into.

Edit Polls in Interactive Media

Editing polls already in interactive media is done in the interactive media editor. To access the interactive media editor, find the media in your library and do either of the following:

Hover over the media tile, then click the horizontal action menu that appears.

Select More Actions from the menu, then select Edit Polls, as shown below.

Alternatively, click on the media tile to open the Media Details page, then select Polls from the left menu as shown in the image below.

Once in the Interactive Media Editor, the Embedded Polls tab is active by default, showing currently embedded polls.

Click on any poll, then click the menu button that appears, and select Edit as shown in the figure below. You can also click the Pencil, also identified in the figure below.

From there, a pop-up window appears with the details of the poll you want to edit. For more details on working with the various polling activity types, see the poll type links at the top of this page.

Edit Polls in Presentations

Editing the polls already resident in a presentation is done from the presentation editor. To access the presentation editor, find the media in your library and do either of the following:

Hover your mouse over the media tile, then click on the menu button that appears. 

Select Edit Media, as shown in the figure below.

OR

Click the media tile to open the Media Details page, then select Media Editor from the left menu as shown in the image below.

Once in the Presentation editor, hover over any poll, then click the edit button (looks like a pencil) located in the top left corner of the slide. This is identified in the figure below.

From there, a pop-up window appears with the details of the poll you want to edit. For more details on working with the various polling activity types, see the poll type links at the top of this page.

Edit Polls in your Library

Remember: Changing a poll in your library, as described below, does not affect polls already embedded in any media. The Polls in your library are more like templates, reusable and shareable with other users. They can be added to presentations, videos / interactive media, and then edited within that media (as described in the above sections of this article) to be specific to where they are being used.

Editing Polls works the same as editing any other media in your library.

Find the item you want to change, hover over the tile, and click the Menu button that appears, then select Edit Poll as shown below.

From there, a pop-up window appears with the details of the poll you want to edit. For more details on working with the various polling activity types, see the poll type links at the top of this page.