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A Q&A poll lets your audience submit open-ended text responses in real time. There are no predefined answer options — participants type freely, and their responses appear live on screen as a scrollable feed. Participants can also react to each other's responses using emojis.
Q&A is suited for live audience questions, open feedback, icebreakers, and group discussion.
Creating a Q&A poll
- From the Home page, click Q&A in the poll type selector.
- The editor opens with a placeholder Question title, click it and type your prompt (e.g. "What questions do you have?").
- Your poll is ready. Participants join via the URL shown at the top of the editor (e.g.
pe.app/joincode) or by scanning the QR code.
How participants respond
Participants navigate to your join code or scan the QR code, type their response, and tap Send. Responses appear on the presenter's screen in real time.
Emoji reactions: Participants can react to any visible response card using emoji. Reactions are tallied live on each response card, letting the audience signal agreement or engagement without submitting a new response.
Q&A Name Tags
Name Tags capture and display the name each participant used at the moment they submitted their response.
Note: Name Tags is available on Q&A polls only.
To enable: open the Audience panel → toggle Name Tags on.
When active, a Name Tag badge appears on each response card showing the respondent's name as it was at the time of submission. If a participant changes their display name after responding, the original captured name is retained on earlier responses.
Anonymity
When Anonymity is enabled, participant names are hidden from all responses. The participant name badge in the editor updates to show "Anonymously".
To enable: open the Audience panel → toggle Anonymity on.
Anonymity and Name Tags cannot be active at the same time. Enabling Anonymity automatically disables Name Tags. Responses submitted while Anonymity was active remain anonymous even after Anonymity is turned off — the setting does not retroactively reveal those respondents.
Presenting a Q&A
- Click Present (top right) to open the live presentation view.
- Participants join via the join code or QR code on screen.
- Responses stream in live as participants submit them.
- Use Lock to close submissions when ready.
- Use Show Responses to control whether responses are visible to participants.
Settings reference
| Setting | Location | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Show Responses | Bottom bar | Toggles whether submitted responses are visible to participants |
| Lock | Bottom bar | Prevents new responses from being submitted |
| Anonymity | Audience panel | Hides participant names from all responses for this question |
| Name Tags | Audience panel | Displays the name each participant used at the time of their response |
| Participation Restrictions | Audience panel | Limits who can respond — by organisation or specific courses |
| Responses Per Participant | Response Limits panel | Sets how many responses each participant can submit |
| Auto Reveal | Timer panel | Automatically reveals responses after a set time |