TakePoll

How to take a poll

This page describes how to take a poll using Google Docs.

Google's help page

A tutorial.

Setup the poll

• With your browser, open https://docs.google.com
• If not already signed in as lwgchair, sign out and sign in as lwgchair
• Go to the Drive screen if no there already.
• Click on the Polls folder.
• Click Create, and then from the menu that appears, click Form
• Replace "Untitled form" with "LWG Issue #", where # is the issue number
• Replace "You can include any text or info that will help people fill this out" with a description of the issue. Important: This box accepts HTML markup. Drag the lower right corner to adjust size.
• Fill in Question Title with "Change the status of the issue to Tentatively Ready?"
• Fill in Help Text with ???.
• Select Question Type as Multiple choice. Do not check **Go to page based on answer" box.
• Set choices as "Yes", "No", "Abstain".
• Click Done
• Add an additional question, with Question Title "Add a comment to the issue in the Issues List", Help Text "If you vote "No", please add a comment indicating the reason for your no vote.", Question Type "Paragraph text"
• Click Done
• Click Save

Hint: To edit the poll from the spreadsheet view, click Form and then Edit form

Announce the poll

Close the poll

• On the spreadsheet, click Form and then uncheck Accepting responses

View the poll results

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