Setting a Minimum Poll Answer Requirement for Zoom

Overview

Elevate can grade learners automatically based on their participation in Zoom polls. You set a minimum number of poll questions a learner must answer during a Zoom webinar or meeting in order to pass. After the event, you import the poll data into Elevate and let the system mark each registrant passed or failed against that threshold — no manual scoring required.

This is useful when you need a simple, defensible measure of live attendance and engagement — for example, to award credit or a certificate only to learners who actively took part.

Before you begin

Confirm the following are in place before you set up poll-based grading:

• Zoom polling is available on your plan. Polling is included with Zoom Pro (and higher) subscriptions. If your organization is not on a qualifying plan, the poll fields described below will not appear.
• The Zoom “meeting-polling” permission is enabled in Elevate. This will happen automatically if you have this feature on your zoom account. 
• Your Zoom integration is connected. The webinar or meeting must be created and managed through Elevate’s Zoom integration so participation data can be imported.

Step 1: Enable the meeting polling permission

The minimum-poll-answer feature relies on Zoom’s polling permission, which is turned off until you refresh your account.

1. Open your Zoom account settings in Elevate’s admin panel.
2. Click Update Permissions button. This pulls your current Zoom permissions — including meeting-polling — into Elevate.
3. Confirm that the meeting-polling permission now shows as active. Once it is active, the new poll-grading field becomes available on your webinars and meetings.

Step 2: Configure the webinar or meeting

Open the Webinar (or meeting) component for your product and confirm participation tracking is turned on. The poll-grading field appears only when both the polling permission and participation tracking are active.

Set the grading behavior

The minimum-poll-answer requirement is tied to the component’s grading settings. In the Participation Tracking setting option, choose one of the following:

• Mark User Attendance and Grade User 
• Grade user 

The Grading method will have to be set to Pass/Fail too. 

Set the minimum number of poll answers

1. In the Minimum Number Of Poll Questions Answered To Pass field, enter the number of poll questions a learner must answer to receive a passing grade.
2. Click Save to save the webinar or meeting.
3. Open the product’s page on your public site and confirm the webinar appears as expected for learners.

Step 3: Add polls in Zoom

Create the poll questions in Zoom so they are ready to launch during the live event. Treat each poll question as a verification checkpoint — a prompt that proves the learner was present and paying attention at that moment. Elevate will count each submitted answer toward the minimum, so the question content should support your verification rules rather than test knowledge. 

Step 4: Import poll data and grade

After the event, bring the Zoom poll results into Elevate and apply the pass/fail grades.

1. In the admin panel, open the product’s Participation/Grading page.
2. Click Mark All Passed if Minimum Poll Answers Met (X), where X is the threshold you set. 
3. Elevate automatically pulls in the number of answered polls from the Zoom meeting and sets each learner’s Grade & Comments:

Don't forget to use the Save button!