A new Poll app. Create and vote on polls directly in Google Chat

This feature is available to all Google Workspace customers that have enabled Chat apps in their domain.

You can create a poll in direct messages, group messages, or spaces and people can vote on it.

Through a simple creation process, teams and groups can share questions for feedback. This feature can be useful in scenarios where you must poll colleagues about an upcoming event, meeting time or team outing. The Poll app provides the ability to see results instantly, along with options to make polls multi-choice or anonymous. Using the Poll app, teams can arrive at faster, more inclusive decisions while keeping the conversation flowing.

Admins:

• Admins will need to allowlist the Poll app if your Marketplace user install setting is set to “Allow users to install and run allowlisted apps from the Marketplace.”
• To enable the Poll app for all users in a domain, admins can domain install the Poll app from the Google Workspace Marketplace.

End users:

• Create a new poll by typing “/poll” in any chat conversation and clicking enter.
• You can also access the Poll app by typing “@Poll” or use the recently announced quick command and click the plus button menu in the compose box and search for “Poll.”

i Users outside of your domain cannot vote on polls posted in spaces with external members.

Optional: to translate your poll click Change poll language and select the language.