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Rating polls in the Microsoft Teams, Zoom or Google Meet chat.

Ask the room to rate something on your shared screen. Everyone types a number in the Zoom, Teams or Google Meet chat, and the average moves as they send it. No QR code, no phones, nothing to install.

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Works where you do: Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, YouTube Live, LinkedIn Live, Substack Live and Restream. Also on your PowerPoint slides.

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How useful was today’s session? How useful was today’s lecture? Type 1 to 5 in the chat

Average 0.0

  1. 0% Not useful 1
  2. 0% 2
  3. 0% 3
  4. 0% 4
  5. 0% Very useful 5
0 responses
  1. Sarah Chen 4
  2. James Okoro 5
  3. Aisha Rahman 4
  4. Tomás García 3
  5. Priya Nair 5
  6. Daniel Kim 4
  7. Mei Lin 4/5
  8. Olu Adeyemi 5
  9. Hannah Weber 2
  10. Marco Bianchi 4
  11. Fatima Zahra 5
  12. Lukas Novak 4
  13. Grace Park 3
  14. Arjun Mehta 5
  15. Chloe Martin 4
  16. Yusuf Ali 5
  17. Ben Carter 4
  18. Elena Popescu 4
  19. Noah Schmidt 5
  20. Inês Duarte 3
  21. Kwame Mensah 4
  22. Ruth Levi 5

Type a number in the chat to add your rating.

A meeting in Microsoft Teams or Zoom. People type answers in the meeting chat and StreamAlive turns them into a rating poll on the shared screen. You can type your own answer in the chat.

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Type in the chat.

From 1 to 5, how easy is rating in the chat? Type 1 to 5 in the chat

Average 0.0

  1. 0% Hard 1
  2. 0% 2
  3. 0% 3
  4. 0% 4
  5. 0% Easy 5
0 responses
  1. You 5
  2. Tomás García 5
  3. Priya Nair 5
  4. Daniel Kim 4
  5. Mei Lin 5
  6. Olu Adeyemi 5
  7. Hannah Weber 3
  8. Marco Bianchi 5
  9. Fatima Zahra 4
  10. Lukas Novak 5
  11. Grace Park 5
  12. Arjun Mehta 5
  13. Chloe Martin 4

Other tools ask people to get their phone out, scan a QR code, open a link and enter a code, and then they get distracted by notifications. With StreamAlive, they type in the chat.

In a Teams or Zoom meeting, “5” is sent in the chat and appears in the rating poll on the shared screen, which asks “From 1 to 5, how easy is rating in the chat?” Everyone else’s answers follow.

Typing a number is all it takes. Nobody picks up a phone to give their rating, so notifications never get the chance to pull them away, and their attention stays with you.

We used to tell people to put their phones away so they wouldn’t be distracted, then later ask them to pull them out again to scan a QR code. That never sat right with us. StreamAlive removed that contradiction completely.

Amy Baughman Sitkins Group

How to run a rating poll in Zoom or Teams.

  1. You let StreamAlive into your meeting and share your screen.
  2. Your audience types a number in the meeting chat. That’s all they do.
  3. StreamAlive adds every rating to the columns and the average as it arrives.

  1. Paste your Teams or Zoom meeting link into StreamAlive and press Connect. It waits in the lobby like a note-taking app. Admit it once and it starts reading the chat.

  2. Share your screen and pick the StreamAlive window, the same way you share slides. Or present the rating poll from your PowerPoint deck.

    This is the step people miss. Your audience can only answer a question they can see.

  3. Everyone sees your rating question the moment you share. It’s a slide in your StreamAlive presentation, set up beforehand.

  4. They type a number on your scale in the meeting chat, like 4, or 8 out of 10. No QR code, no link, no phone.

  5. Every rating lands in its column as it’s sent, and the average above the columns moves with it.

  6. After the session, the report shows who took part and how each question landed. Connect StreamAlive to Claude, ChatGPT or Copilot and ask what the room thought.

How ready do you feel for the year ahead? Type 1 to 5 in the chat

Average 0.0

  1. 0% Not ready 1
  2. 0% 2
  3. 0% 3
  4. 0% 4
  5. 0% Very ready 5
0 responses
  1. Sarah Chen 4
  2. James Okoro 3
  3. Aisha Rahman 5
  4. Tomás García 4
  5. Priya Nair 4
  6. Daniel Kim 2
  7. Mei Lin 5
  8. Olu Adeyemi 4
  9. Hannah Weber 3
  10. Marco Bianchi 4
  11. Fatima Zahra 5
  12. Lukas Novak 4
  13. Grace Park 4
  14. Arjun Mehta 3
  15. Chloe Martin 5
  16. Yusuf Ali 4
Illustration of the six steps. The presenter pastes the meeting link into StreamAlive and presses Connect. StreamAlive waits in the meeting lobby and is admitted, then posts in the chat that it is reading the chat. The presenter presses Share and picks the StreamAlive window, a poll appears on the shared screen, and answers typed in the chat fill the poll bars as they arrive. After the session, the report shows who took part and how each question landed, and an AI assistant can answer questions about it.

A rating poll on its own, or on your PowerPoint slide.

Share the StreamAlive window and the rating poll fills your screen. Or put it on a slide with the PowerPoint add-in, share PowerPoint as usual, and the ratings fill in right there on the slide.

  1. Daniel Kim 2
  2. Mei Lin 3
  3. Olu Adeyemi 2
  4. Hannah Weber 1
  5. Marco Bianchi 3
  6. Fatima Zahra 2
  7. Lukas Novak 4
  8. Grace Park 2
  9. Arjun Mehta 3
  10. Chloe Martin 2
  11. Yusuf Ali 1
  12. Ben Carter 3

Type in the chat to add your own answer.

A Microsoft Teams meeting. First the host shares the StreamAlive window on its own; then the host shares PowerPoint, where the same interaction sits on a slide. Answers typed in the Teams chat fill the interaction either way. Choose a slide in the slide list to switch interaction, or type your own answer in the chat.

Ask at the start. Ask again at the end.

Ask how confident people feel before you teach something, and again when you’ve finished. The two averages show what your session changed, while everyone’s still in the room.

At the start of the workshop

How confident are you building a pivot table?

Average 0.0

  1. 0% Not at all 1
  2. 0% 2
  3. 0% 3
  4. 0% 4
  5. 0% Very 5
0 responses

At the end

How confident are you building a pivot table?

Average 0.0

  1. 0% Not at all 1
  2. 0% 2
  3. 0% 3
  4. 0% 4
  5. 0% Very 5
0 responses

1 to 5, 1 to 10, words or stars.

Pick the scale that fits the question. Put a word at each end so everyone reads the numbers the same way, or show stars instead. Either way, your audience just types a number in the chat.

  1. 1 to 5, with words at the ends

    For quick feedback. A word under the lowest and highest score, like “Not clear” and “Very clear”, so a 1 means the same thing to everyone.

    How clear was today’s session? Type 1 to 5 in the chat

    Average 0.0

    1. 0% Not clear 1
    2. 0% 2
    3. 0% 3
    4. 0% 4
    5. 0% Very clear 5
    0 responses
    1. Aisha Rahman 4
    2. Tomás García 5
    3. Priya Nair 4
    4. Daniel Kim 3
    5. Mei Lin 5
    6. Olu Adeyemi 4
    7. Hannah Weber 4
    8. Marco Bianchi 5
    9. Fatima Zahra 2
    10. Lukas Novak 4
    11. Grace Park 5
    12. Arjun Mehta 4
    13. Chloe Martin 3
    14. Yusuf Ali 5
    15. Ben Carter 4
    16. Elena Popescu 4
    17. Noah Schmidt 5
    18. Inês Duarte 4

    Type in the chat to add your own answer.

  2. 1 to 10

    For finer opinions, like how likely people are to recommend a course. Numbers outside the scale are ignored, so a stray “2025” never skews the average.

    How likely are you to recommend this course to a colleague? Type 1 to 10 in the chat

    Average 0.0

    1. 0% Not likely 1
    2. 0% 2
    3. 0% 3
    4. 0% 4
    5. 0% 5
    6. 0% 6
    7. 0% 7
    8. 0% 8
    9. 0% 9
    10. 0% Very likely 10
    0 responses
    1. Olu Adeyemi 8
    2. Hannah Weber 9
    3. Marco Bianchi 10
    4. Fatima Zahra 7
    5. Lukas Novak 8
    6. Grace Park 9
    7. Arjun Mehta 6
    8. Chloe Martin 10
    9. Yusuf Ali 8
    10. Ben Carter 9
    11. Elena Popescu 9
    12. Noah Schmidt 8
    13. Inês Duarte 7
    14. Kwame Mensah 10
    15. Ruth Levi 9
    16. Leah Brooks 8

    Type in the chat to add your own answer.

  3. Stars

    For something people already rate in stars, like a talk or a meal. Each column stacks one star per point.

    How many stars for today’s keynote? Type 1 to 5 in the chat

    Average 0.0

    1. 0% 1
    2. 0% 2
    3. 0% 3
    4. 0% 4
    5. 0% 5
    0 responses
    1. Grace Park 5
    2. Arjun Mehta 4
    3. Chloe Martin 5
    4. Yusuf Ali 5
    5. Ben Carter 3
    6. Elena Popescu 4
    7. Noah Schmidt 5
    8. Inês Duarte 4
    9. Kwame Mensah 5
    10. Ruth Levi 5
    11. Leah Brooks 4
    12. Dev Patel 5
    13. Nora Kelly 4
    14. Sam Adeyemi 3
    15. Julia Weiss 5

    Type in the chat to add your own answer.

Also in the family: live polls, multiple choice questions and quizzes.

Rating polls in your brand’s colors, fonts and logo.

Pick one of more than 50 ready-made themes, from plain dark and light to scenes, seasons and moving backgrounds. Or make your own with your colors, fonts, logo and background, for one rating poll or every one at once.

How would you rate this year’s offsite?

Average 0.0

  1. 0% Not great 1
  2. 0% 2
  3. 0% 3
  4. 0% 4
  5. 0% Great 5
0 responses

Trainers and lecturers who ask the room, in the chat.

Participation jumped once the QR code was gone.

60%

took part when they had to scan a QR code

90%

take part now they just type in the chat

Attendees taking part in Virtual Approval’s virtual and hybrid events, before and after they switched to StreamAlive.

Before StreamAlive, we were using other well-known QR-based interaction tools. About 60 – 70% of people would follow a QR code. Now that all they have to do is type in the chat, we see more like 90 – 95% of participants engaging.

Rachel Locke Founder & CEO, Virtual Approval
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  • It allows students to participate without leaving the current platform, making it convenient for those using laptops with limited screen space.

    Tatiana Rodriguez Adjunct Professor, Rutgers University
    Read Tatiana’s story

  • it turned my class from a handful of participants to everyone participating, whether it was the shy students or the ones who thought they were too cool to give their opinions.

    Manish Agarwal Lecturer, Indian Institute of Management
    Read Manish’s story
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A rating poll in a real live stream.

A YouTube streamer asking viewers to rate a game update, live, with StreamAlive. The recording starts where the rating poll comes up.

We show YouTube streams here because they’re public. StreamAlive never sees or hears the Zoom, Teams or Meet sessions it runs in: it only reads the chat.

How to run a rating poll in Zoom, Teams, Google Meet or PowerPoint

It’s the same three moves everywhere: let StreamAlive into your meeting, share your screen, ask. Here’s how StreamAlive gets in wherever you present, with a step-by-step guide for each.

In your meeting

With your slides

In a live stream

In the room

Your first session won’t be a solo act.

Chat to the StreamAlive team, join a daily AMA, or follow the step-by-step guide for your platform. You can test it in a meeting with one colleague before anyone else sees it.

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Questions about rating polls

How do I run a rating poll in Zoom?

Create the rating poll in StreamAlive, connect StreamAlive to your Zoom meeting with the StreamAlive app for Zoom or the meeting link, then share your screen and pick the StreamAlive window. Ask people to type a number in the Zoom chat. Every rating moves the columns and the average as it’s sent.

How do people give their rating?

By typing a number on your scale in the meeting chat. “4”, “4/5” and “8 out of 10” all count. Numbers outside the scale, and messages with two numbers in them, are left out, so the average stays honest.

Can I use a 1 to 10 scale, or stars?

Yes. Choose 1 to 5 or 1 to 10. Put a word under the lowest and highest score, like “Not great” and “Great”, or show stars instead.

Where do people see the result?

The average sits above the columns and updates with every rating, and each column shows its share of the votes. After the session, the report keeps the result with the rest of your questions.

Don’t Zoom and Teams have rating questions?

Both have rating questions in their own poll tools, answered in a separate pop-up. StreamAlive’s ratings are typed in the meeting chat and fill in on your shared screen or your PowerPoint slide, with the average updating live.

How do I add a rating poll to PowerPoint?

Install the StreamAlive add-in, add a rating poll to a slide, connect StreamAlive to your Teams or Zoom meeting and present in Slide Show. When the slide is up, answers typed in the meeting chat fill the columns on your slide.

Can I run a rating poll in Google Meet or with Google Slides?

Yes. In Google Meet, connect StreamAlive with the meeting link and people answer in the Meet chat. Google Slides can’t show live content inside a slide, so StreamAlive gives you a quick link to paste on your slide. Clicking it while you present opens the rating in a browser tab: connect StreamAlive to your meeting from there and share that tab.

Do participants need an app, an account or a QR code?

Not online. In Zoom, Teams and Google Meet they type in the meeting chat they’re already using. In a room, people open StreamAlive’s browser chat with a QR code or a short link and code, still with no app or account.

Why does StreamAlive need to join my meeting?

It reads the meeting chat so it can turn ratings into the poll. It joins the way a note-taking app does, and you admit it. It doesn’t record your meeting and has no access to your video, audio or shared screen.

Can people rate anonymously?

In the meeting chat, everyone sees who wrote what, as they always do. In StreamAlive’s browser chat, which people use in the room at in-person sessions, they can rate anonymously.

How the browser chat works
Does it work for hybrid and in-person sessions?

Yes. People in the room answer in StreamAlive’s browser chat on a phone or laptop, and people online answer in the meeting chat. Both feed the same rating poll.

Is there a free plan?

Yes. Sessions with up to five participants are free, with every interaction included and no card needed. Paid plans start at $100 for a pack of 4 sessions, and Pro is $75 a month, billed annually.

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