Polls & Quizzes

Modr8 bot engine supports issuing native Telegram polls, quizzes and anonymous quizzes. Whilst it can be hard to track responses (including timestamps of responses given) via Telegram analytics the Modr8 platform offers full management via our Platform pages.

Polls & Quizzes issued by the Modr8 platform show real-time responses

Modr8 tracks the time stamp of responses being given so you can be sure to know who responded to your poll/quiz as well as WHEN they responded.

Supported Polls & Quiz Types

At present Modr8 can issue polls with the following features.

• Up to 10 options for an answer

• Ability to send as Quiz with selection of which of the 10 options is the right answer

• Ability to issue the Quiz or Poll as anonymous so users who have responded are not shown on Telegram

• Scheduled publishing of polls/quizzes

• Scheduled closing of the polls/quizzes

How to create & issue a Polls & Quizzes

Add in a poll question and potentially up to 10 answers users can provide responses to

You can configure multiple options in a Modr8 poll and even turn it into a quiz that is scheduled to send and close automated.

To issue a poll or quiz then complete the following steps:

1. Select "Manage" on your bot profile

2. Select "Polls" on your chat profile

3. Select "Create" button on the "Create A Poll or Quiz" card

4. Provide a poll "Question" which will be the main body of the poll. This is limited to 300 characters by Telegram.

5. Provide answer options, a minimum of 2 are allowed and a maximum of 10. To add more potential answers click the "Add More" button

6. Elect to send the poll as a quiz by enabling the "Send As Quiz?" toggle

7. Elect to allow users to provide multiple responses by enabling the "Multi-response?" toggle. Note: You can not have a multi-response quiz. Telegram does not support this.

8. If you want users to record responses anonymous then enable the "Anonymous?" toggle.

9. If you want to open and close the poll based on a schedule you can enable the "Enable Schedule?" toggle

10. Set a "Schedule Publish" date and time by clicking the calendar icon at the end of the input box

11. Set a "Schedule Closing" date and time by clicking the calendar icon at the end of the input box

12. You can choose to "Publish Poll" immediately or if you want to come back later you can click the "Save Draft" button to re-edit it later

Managing & Tracking Polls & Quizzes

When a poll has been created, drafted or closed it will show up on the main poll management page. From here you can select to view responses, close the poll or edit drafts.

Within each of the sections below you will provide a brief overview of the functionality that is available on the poll management page dependent on the state that your poll is currently in.

Example draft poll that can be edited

Polls which are set in the draft state can be edited by any administrastor. Saving a poll as a draft is useful if you are planning to make changes at a later date.

Example scheduled poll which can be edited

If you have elected to issue your poll in the future, using the scheduled opening time you can make changes to the poll by clicking the "Edit" button up to the moment it is published.

A poll has been issued and is now being tracked by Modr8

Once a poll has been published to your chat or channel you have the options to:

• View the responses given in more detail including viewing the users and timestamps their vote was given

• View the poll direct within your chat

• End the poll and close it on Telegram. It will remain visible but chat users can no longer provide responses

Closed polls keep their data so you an review responses easily

Once a poll has been closed you can:

• View responses to see the totals received for each poll option as well as timestamps and respondent data

• View the poll by jumping to the message on your Telegram app/client