How to create scheduling polls: 5 steps
Use SurveyMonkey to create online polls to schedule meetings, events, and work rotations.
- Scheduling polls are used to coordinate meeting times for employees, colleagues, or other individuals.
- Availability polls streamline scheduling by eliminating the need to email each attendee back and forth to find the best time.
- Create a professional scheduling poll with SurveyMonkey templates. Customize the questions to fit your needs, add time and date options, and send the link in an email blast to employees or colleagues to gather responses.
Scheduling is more challenging than ever. Most people’s calendars are packed with meetings and events. People can also be difficult to reach; if you can reach them, they may not respond to your scheduling request.
Make it easy on yourself and use SurveyMonkey to create online polls for scheduling meetings! Instead of hunting people down repeatedly by phone or email, use SurveyMonkey to build your poll. Then, ask people to respond by sending a link in an email or embedding your questionnaire on web and Facebook pages. You can even automate reminders to respond.
Launch your poll in a few minutes. It’s easy, efficient, and FREE.
If you don’t already have a SurveyMonkey account, sign up for free to create and send your online scheduling poll in minutes. We make it simple to compose your questions, or you can get a head start with expert-certified templates and questions from our Question Bank. Then, email or post the link to your poll and collect responses. Voila!
What are scheduling polls?
Scheduling polls are online forms that propose meeting times and allow users to select the times that work for their schedule.
They can also gather general availability data for work scheduling. This minimizes the need to play phone or email tag and makes scheduling meetings, events, or work rotations simpler than ever before.
With SurveyMonkey, you can create and send availability polls with a click of a button.
Why use online scheduling polls?
Use online polls to refine your meeting scheduler for any meeting, event, class, or activity!
- Meetings. Use a SurveyMonkey online poll to schedule a meeting. Figure out possible dates and times for a global team meeting. Planning an offsite? Ask for preferences on meeting locations, menus, and extracurricular activities to streamline scheduling and planning.
- Work schedules. If you run a restaurant, retail store, or any business with many employees working different shifts, creating a scheduling poll makes it easy to build your schedule by getting everyone’s availability laid out in one place.
- Events. Assess host and guest availability and zero in on dates for big internal and external company, neighborhood, or association events.
- Family reunions. Poll far-flung family members for potential dates and locations for a reunion or other family celebration.
- Social gatherings. Poll friends for the best dates and times for the next cookout, group camping trip, girls’ night out, park playdate, or poker game.
- Class schedules. Determine interest level and best day, date, and time of day for scheduling classes, courses, or seminars.
- Volunteer events. Run polls to gather volunteer availability and schedule a calendar of activities.
How to create a scheduling poll
It’s easy to create a scheduling poll with SurveyMonkey. Here’s how you do it:
1. Sign up
Sign up for your free SurveyMonkey account to start the scheduling polls. Consider using one of our many online poll templates to start.
2. Ask a question (or two)
To create a poll, you will first ask a question such as, “Which of the proposed times could you attend a Zoom call to discuss the Q3 budget?” Then, you will add date, time, and meeting duration options.
3. Send out your poll
SurveyMonkey makes it easy to distribute your scheduling poll to involved parties. Send the poll link via email, or add the link to a Facebook or Twitter post to gather responses.
4. Collect and analyze responses
Once recipients respond, you can determine the meeting time for most participants. Alternatively, you can learn the respondents' work availability to create the next work rotation.
5. Schedule your event
Lastly, it’s time to use the results to schedule the meeting or event. Choose the date and time that yielded the most responses to ensure you have the highest number of attendees at your meeting or event.
Create your online scheduling poll in minutes
Simplify scheduling using SurveyMonkey online polls, and then explore other ways to use surveys. Use any of our survey templates as the basis for your online poll, or start with one or more of the many methodologically sound and certified questions in our Question Bank. While all of our questions are written by professional survey methodologists, you can also customize questions to fit your polling or surveying needs.
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