As a group leader or program administrator, you can add polls, quick questions, or quizzes to a specific group for members to engage with. Published activities are seen by group members in My Feed and in the group Discussion page.
In this article:
- Permissions
- Adding an activity to a group
- Testing an activity
- Schedule publishing
- Deleting and inactivating activities
Permissions
Program administrators and group leaders can add polls, quick questions, or quizzes to a group from the group Activities page.
Are you looking for community activities?
Program administrators can also add activities to the community for wider audiences.
- Learn more about adding polls, quick questions, or quizzes in the Admin space.
- Learn more about adding custom activities in the Admin space.
Adding an activity to a group
Activity Types
Quick question
A series of multiple-choice questions that community members can respond to. Quick questions can only be answered once and disappear from the feed once a submission is made. Answers are never shown to other members.
Poll
Members select an answer and are shown a percentage breakdown of other responses. Polls are answered once and disappear from the feed once a submission is made. Answers are never shown to other members.
Quiz
Members select an answer and are informed if their response is correct along with additional information related to the topic. Quizzes are answered once and disappear from the feed once a submission is made. Member responses to a quiz are never shown to other members.
Custom Activities
Only program administrators can create a custom activity. A custom activity can include several question types, including multiple-choice, answer ranking, image selection and more.
Custom activities are either public so that members can see other member submissions (to encourage connection and collaboration), or private so that only program administrators see responses.
To develop a poll, quick question, or quiz for a group:
- Go to group management and select a group.
- Select the Activities tab.
- Select Add Activity and choose the type of activity you wish to create (poll, quick question, or quiz).
- Complete the following details of the activity:
- Title and Notes.
- Hide from leader calendar prevents the activity from appearing on the community calendar for privacy.
- Access settings can be configured for member visibility.
- Enter your question to the Type question here field, keeping it as short as possible. If you need to provide more context, expand the Description area.
- Enter your answer options in the Answers fields.
- Select Save.
If you are building a quiz:
- Indicate which answer is correct by checking the Correct box.
- Provide Answer Text, which appears once an answer is selected to educate on the question topic. Make sure that your answer text is concise and generic regardless of a correct or incorrect submission.
Testing an activity
To test activities for a group:
- Go to group management and select a group.
- Select the Activities tab.
- Select Manage activity > View Public next to the activity to see how it appears when published.
- Enter and submit a response.
- To re-test the content, go to Manage activity > Reset and try again.
Schedule publishing
To schedule and publish an activity for a set period:
- Go to group management and select a group.
- Select the Activities tab.
- Select Manage activity > Publish.
- Choose whether to Publish immediately or select a start date.
- Choose whether there is No end date or select an end date.
- Select Save schedule.
Activities appear in the community on the scheduled start date. You can edit the schedule of an item before it is published by selecting Manage activity > Edit Schedule.
Deleting and inactivating activities
If you want to delete an unpublished activity, locate the activity and select Manage activity > Delete.
Once an activity is published, you cannot delete it. You can change its status to inactive by selecting Manage Activity > Inactivate.
You can reactivate an activity that is inactive by selecting Manage activity > Reactivate.