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Start a poll

Polls let you ask your group a question and collect everyone's answers in one place — pick a show of hands, a star rating, a number, or a written reply. You start a poll from inside a group's chat channel, and it posts as a message anyone in the channel can answer.

Before you start

Polls live in group channels, so you need to be in a group — a Class, Project / Team, Family, or Study session. Private one-to-one chats and Garçon don't have polls. See Create a group.

  1. Open the group from Groups — its space opens on the Chat tab.

  2. Below the message box, click + Share and choose Poll. The Create a new poll dialog opens.

  3. Choose a Type for your question — Choices, Number, Rating, Short answer, or Long answer.

  4. Type your question in the Question field.

  5. For a Choices question, fill in each option under Options (use + Add for more), and turn on Allow multiple selections if voters should be able to pick more than one.

    Screenshot coming soon
    The Create a new poll dialog with a Choices question typed in and two options filled
  6. Click Confirm. Latte posts the poll to the channel, and everyone in the group can answer it right away.

On the Latte desktop app

The desktop app posts polls to the same channels — no difference from the web app.

More than one question

On the Free plan a poll has a single question. Adding a second one brings up the This is a Premium feature card — "Upgrade to use multi-question polls and the rest of Premium." Premium raises the cap to 8 questions, with a stepper to page between them as you build. See What's included in Premium.