Getting started

The shortest path from an empty workspace to a run with answers in it.

There are two things, and one of them is a link

A survey is answered from a link, in people’s own time, once per confirmed email address. A live vote is answered by a room at the same moment, on their phones, while you put the questions up one at a time. You choose which when you create it, and everything else follows from that.

Running the same questions again is a copy: it starts as a fresh draft with none of the first run’s answers, its own link, and whatever edits you want to make before it opens.

Opening it is the moment with consequences

·The codes exist. A draft has no link and no room code, because there is nothing to join yet.
·The questions freeze. Editing a question people have already answered would change what their answers meant.
·The clock starts. A survey with a closing time will close itself at it, whether or not anyone is watching.

Your first run, in four steps

Describe it, or start blank

Type a sentence about what it is for and the questions come back drafted, with a title. Or start a blank survey or live vote and write them yourself.

Edit anything

Reword a question, change its type, add or delete one. Nothing is visible to anyone while it is a draft.

Open it

One button. A survey gets a link and a QR code, and a closing time if you set one; a live vote gets a room code on screen and hands you the console.

Read what came back

Every answer question by question, with the totals — and a CSV of either when you want it elsewhere.

Survey or live vote is fixed once it exists

The two differ in how a participant is identified and whether an answer can be changed, so switching after the fact would rewrite what the answers already given meant. If you picked wrong, duplicate it — the copy is a draft you can start over from, with the questions already in it.

◆You already have something to run: a new workspace comes with a small sample survey, so you can do a complete run — open it, answer it, read the results — before writing a question of your own.