TakePoll

How to take a poll

This page describes how to take a poll using Google Docs.

With your browser, open https://docs.google.com
Sign in as lwgchair
Go to the Drive screen if not already there.
Click on the Polls folder.
Click Create, and then from the menu that appears, click Form
Replace "Untitled form" with "LWG Poll #", where # is the poll number
Replace "You can include any text or info that will help people fill this out" with "General info: who is eligible to vote, etc.".
Fill in Question Title with "Email address?"
Fill in Help Text with "Your email address is collected to validate your response. Please use your usual email address.".
Select Question Type as Text.
Check "Make this a required question".
Click Done

Pull down the Add item tab, and select Section header.
Hint: If any poll element isn't positioned correctly, drag it to drag it to the correct location.
Fill in Header text with "LWG Issue #", where # is the issue number.
Fill in **Description"" with a description of the issue. Important: This box accepts HTML markup. Drag the lower right corner to adjust size.
Click Done
Click the pencil icon to edit the first question.
Fill in Question Title with "Change the status of issue # to Tentatively Ready?" and replace # with the issue number. Needed to ease response identification.
Fill in Help Text with ???.
Select Question Type as Multiple choice. Do not check **Go to page based on answer" box.
Set choices as "Yes", "No", "Abstain".
Click Done
Add an additional question, with Question Title "Add a comment to the issue in the Issues List", Help Text "If you vote "No", please add a comment indicating the reason for your no vote.", Question Type "Paragraph text"
Click Done
Click Save
Repeat for any additional issues.

Hint: To edit the poll from the spreadsheet view, click Form and then Edit form