Poll is a Task Type that present the participant with a list of predefined options from which they are asked to select one (single choice) or more (multiple choice) responses.

Watch the interactive walkthrough below for an overview of the Poll Task type.

Poll Tasks can be used to:

Despite the complexity of this Task type, Recollective automatically adapts the exercise to fit on all screen sizes.

Your Poll Choice Labels can be added individually or you can paste them in bulk. The choices can be as simple as plain text options, but clicking on Show formatting options gives you access to the text editor so you can format or even include images or videos in your choices.

Poll Tasks featuring embedded media can be used in a number of different scenarios:

When including media items as Poll choices, you must still add some text description as well. This ensures participant responses are clearly represented in areas where the media item in the choice cannot be included (e.g. in the Summary / Stream overviews).

When a Poll is set to be Multiple Choice, an additional Exclusive choice option is presented. When a choice deemed to be exclusive is selected by a participant, any other poll choices are automatically deselected.

The Choice Data Value part of each Poll choice is essentially the back-end label and will appear in charts and exports. This value is limited to 25 characters and is a plain text field, so the best practice for longer polling options / choices is to use a shorter descriptor label here. This value can also be used to input codes that might pertain to analysis (e.g. a list of randomized product features that each have a relevant numeric code for analysis).

When initially building out your Poll choices, the Choice Data Value will mirror the Choice Label, so make sure to edit this value if you make any revisions to your choices after the initial setup. If the data value is different from the label, it will be displayed on the poll choice (as shown below):

To avoid response bias, you can choose the Randomize presentation of choices option. If your Poll is a Required Task, a minimum of one choice must be selected in order to proceed. Custom selection requirements can also be specified using the Limit number of choices option (e.g. 1 to 3). When applicable, additional built-in choices can be enabled such as:

Each Poll choice also has an Advanced Options menu to enable additional actions when that Poll choice is selected. For example, you can add and / or remove the participant from one or more Segments.

If you wish to Segment participants based on a selection such as 'None of these choices', you can do so by adding a new Poll Choice and deeming it an Exclusive Choice instead of using the default None of the Above option.

For single-choice Polls, you can also set a Destination for each choice. With this option, you can have people go to:

When redirecting a participant outside of the current Activity, enable the Complete Activity (skip remaining) checkbox option if you do not expect the participant to return to the Activity later. This ensures the current Activity response will be deemed complete.

If using either of these options, the relevant icons will be displayed on the setup page (similar to the choice-data values):

For more information on how you can leverage the Poll Task type within your research, make sure to check out our Spotlight: Poll Task blog article.

As with other Task types in Recollective, researchers can take advantage of several additional setting options when configuring a Poll task:

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