# Virto Polls

Source: [https://docs.virtosoftware.com/docs/virto-polls/](https://docs.virtosoftware.com/docs/virto-polls/)
Product: Virto Polls
Updated: 2026-08-13

Virto Polls is an intuitive app that makes it easy to engage your team, collect feedback, and make data-driven decisions directly within Microsoft Teams.

## Key features:

[Open the interactive demo](https://app.storylane.io/demo/0teajbcvau2m)

**Interactive demo walkthrough**
1. Meet Virto Polls — Engage your team, collect feedback, and make smarter decisions.
2. Click here to create your new poll
3. Name your poll to make it identifiable
4. Add details in description
5. Start adding your questions - pick the question type you need
6. 'Choice' allows you to add your options
7. Include an "Other" option to capture unexpected responses and new insights
8. Decide if you want to get only one or multiple answers
9. Decide if the question can be skipped or the answer is strictly required
10. Rating questions help measure satisfaction levels and opinions with precision
11. Open-ended text questions allow respondents to share thoughts in their own words - create a prompt that encourages detailed and thoughtful responses
12. Tune your open-ended question settings for maximum insight value
13. Add a Yes/No question for clear, binary feedback on important decisions
14. Craft a simple Yes/No question to collect straightforward feedback
15. Having added your questions, click 'Permissions' to decide who can edit your poll
16. Choose 'Private poll' for limited editing rights
17. Decide who can edit your poll
18. Important - save your poll before you can publish it
19. Re-enter your poll to publish it
20. In 'Publish' choose poll end date
21. Choose team that will access your poll
22. Publish your poll
23. Your poll will appear as a Microsoft Teams chat after publishing
24. Track participation and analyze feedback with the results dashboard
25. Check how many team members took the poll
26. See average time spent to take your poll
27. Click 'More details' to see what each team member answered here
28. Review each person's contribution here
29. Study your team members' responses thoroughly
30. Thanks for exploring! — Ready to see how this can work for you?


- **Poll creation made simple:** Quickly build polls with multiple question types—single choice, multiple choice, or open text—directly in Microsoft Teams. This straightforward process ensures anyone can create a poll in seconds.

- **Real-time results:** View responses instantly as they come in, with clear visualizations that make it easy to spot trends and reach conclusions faster.

- **Seamless Teams integration:** Create, share, and answer polls without leaving Microsoft Teams. Responses stay within your workflow, keeping collaboration effortless.

## Pages
- [Working with Virto Polls](https://docs.virtosoftware.com/docs/virto-polls/working-with-virto-polls/index.md) — Walkthroughs for creating a poll, choosing question types, setting permissions, publishing it and reading results.
- [Virto Polls Bot](https://docs.virtosoftware.com/docs/virto-polls/virto-polls-bot/index.md) — The Microsoft Teams bot behind Virto Polls, which drives poll creation and collects responses inside your workspace.
