Create and send polls
Learn how to create and send one-question polls in Slack to quickly gather team feedback.
Make sure you’ve added Doozy to your Slack Workspace. If you’ve not done so yet, follow these instructions. We also recommend connecting Doozy to your HRIS.
Create and schedule a poll
Send a poll question instantly to members of any Slack channel.
Go to 'Doozy' in your Slack sidebar and select 'Polls and Surveys'.
Choose 'Create Poll'
Enter your question
Choose from 6 question types
- Multiple choice (you can input your choice of answers, one per line, in the field below)
- Scale 1–5
- Scale 1–10
- Emoji reactions
- Employee NPS
- Open ended
Choose whether to allow multiple answers
Choose whether to allow comments in addition to answers
Choose who can view the results - the creator only, or everyone
Choose how long people have to respond to the poll (from unlimited time to just 1 minute)
Choose the channel you'd like the poll to be posted in
Choose whether you want the poll to recur or be a one-off
Hit 'Save' and your poll is ready to go
Send an instant poll
Enter a channel of your choice
Type /doozy poll “question” “answer1” “answer2”
Add ‘anonymous’ at the end if you want responses to be anonymous
Send your message and the poll will be posted instantly in the channel
You’re ready to gather feedback from within your team and across your organisation!