Polls & quick surveys

Choose the audience from records iVake already holds: class, section, programme, department, role, hostel, transport route or committee membership. A student who moves out of the hostel stops receiving hostel polls without anyone editing a list.

Yes, or named, set for each poll. Named voting suits formal committee decisions where the minutes need a record. Anonymous voting suits feedback where honesty matters more than attribution. The choice is fixed once the first vote is cast, so responses cannot be unmasked later.

The first vote stands and a second one is refused. If a member made a genuine mistake, the poll owner can reset that one vote while the poll is still open, and the reset is logged with who did it and when.

Polls work when they are short, specific and closed within a few days. Keep them to a few questions on a decision that is close, and watch the response rate across polls from the same office: a falling rate is the sign to ask less often.

Yes. A poll exports while it is open, after it closes, or from the archive, with the question, the options, the counts, the response rate against the audience and, for named polls, the record of who voted. Past polls are searchable by date, owner, audience and title.

Yes. Set it to repeat each month, term or academic year for the same audience. Each round keeps its own responses, and the results are shown side by side, so a change from one term to the next is easy to see.

A poll is a few questions on a current decision, answered in under a minute and closed within days. A survey is a longer set of questions, such as course feedback or an exit survey, run on a cycle. iVake has both, reading the same records.