How to Use the Internet

By 2028, 73% of all teams at every single company are expected to have remote workers. The younger generation is powering a movement towards remote working, both for their employees and their staff. 74% of millennial and Gen Z managers have team members who spend most of their time working remotely. Without face-to-face communication between customers and employees, synchronous and asynchronous forms of communication have emerged such as Zoom, Slack, and BlueJeans Network. During the global pandemic, Slack has found its niche as a workplace communication tool to assist teams with instant messaging and add-ins for workplace tools. Within teams, surveys are an extremely useful and efficient way to collect ideas from your teammates. Slack allows you to create very simple polls and surveys, but they also offer more robust polls with add-in apps like Polly and Simple Poll.  

After just a few simple steps, you can learn exactly how to stay connected with your team and poll ideas without face-to-face communication, long phone calls, or tedious back and forth emails. As demoed in our How to Use the Internet Series: How to Create a Poll in Slack, here is our step by step process to help you stay connected with your team. 

How to Create a Poll in Slack 

To begin, open Slack in either your internet browser or downloadable desktop app.

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To Create a Poll: 

1. Go to “Apps” on your Left Command Bar
2. Search “Polly” and click “Add”
3. Open a Chat Window within the Slack Channel (or Direct Message) you want your poll to be in
4. In the text tab at the bottom of your screen, do the following: 

1. Type “/poll” 
2. Click the spacebar and type an opening quotation mark (“) 
3. Type your question and close the quotation 
4. Click the spacebar and proceed to type all of your answers in quotations (“Cheese”) 

1. Make sure to have a space between each answer

1. Press the “Enter” or “Return” key 

To Create an Anonymous Poll

1. Repeat steps 1-2 from above
2. At the end of your last answer, type “anonymous” without quotations
3. Press the “Enter” or “Return” key 

And there you have it! You know exactly how to create a poll to stay connected with your team. Whether it’s brainstorming and voting on ideas or gathering information for market research, Slack does it all for you in just a few, simple commands. 

Want to learn more tips and tricks? Check out the rest of our How to Use the Internet Series. This Youtube series of short video demonstrations are designed to teach users various online skills through visual storytelling, like creating GIFs, how to embed an image in email, and more. Whether you are an office worker that needs help with Slack or you’re teaching your parents about their new Android Phone, we’ve got you covered! 

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