TakePoll

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Beman edited this page Dec 19, 2012 · 8 revisions

How to take a poll

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

Google's help page

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, 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.
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

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

Announce the poll

Close the poll

View the poll results