Doodle’s Group Poll is the easiest way to bring a group of people together at the right time with no back-and-forth. But if you dig deeper, you can find a wealth of features that will make your next group poll better than ever.

When you create a group poll, you are asked to provide a location for your event. But did you know you can select a physical location and a web conferencing app for the same event? This feature will help organizers provide flexibility for their upcoming event, and encourage greater poll participation as a result.

To create a hybrid meeting:

The default duration for group poll events is 60 minutes. You can select from an array of other pre-defined values, or you can select a custom event duration. With custom event duration, you can be sure that the times you propose are exactly what you want them to be.

To offer a custom duration:

When you connect your calendar to your Doodle account, you get time-saving features for you and your event participants. In addition to sending your poll participant a calendar event and adding the event automatically to your own calendar, you can also access your calendar subscriptions directly from your Doodle account. That way you can coordinate times for meetings that you know are free for you and your team.

To see your calendar subscriptions:

The calendar events for the selected calendars will now overlay your own calendar in the ‘Week’ view of the group poll. This way you can easily choose times that you know will work for everyone.

Sometimes meetings need to be coordinated for participants across multiple timezones. With the timezone selector, you can easily see what times your proposed time slots will be for anyone in any timezone.

To use the timezone selector:

The ‘Week’ view table will now show the proposed meeting times in the new timezone.

Have you ever wondered what your group poll will look like for your poll participants? Now you can see what the participant experience looks like with Doodle’s Preview feature.

To preview your group poll before you send it, click ‘Preview’ from the group poll summary screen. A new screen will load to reveal the participant experience. Use this to review your poll for accuracy and to better advise your poll participants should they ask you questions about the poll. Once you are satisfied with the preview, close it and send the group poll link to your poll participants.

Sometimes it is helpful to be able to review your poll responses in a spreadsheet - particularly if you have a large poll with many available options and/or many poll participants. Doodle Professional users can export their poll response data as a document that is easily opened in Excel and Google Sheets.

There are two ways to export your group poll data.

From the Doodle dashboard:

From the event summary screen:

Sometimes an individual responsible for organizing an event is not required to be in attendance of the event. In these cases, it can be helpful to edit your availability to indicate the days and times that work - and the ones that don’t. Doodle Professional users have this option with our organizer availability editing feature.

To edit your availability:

Now your participants will be able to see your specific availability for each proposed time.

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