Survey pod

Learn how to create, import, and manage surveys using the Survey pod in Adobe Connect to collect participant feedback efficiently during your sessions.

The Survey pod in Adobe Connect allows hosts to design and deliver surveys during live sessions. You can collect instant feedback, gauge participant engagement, or conduct quick assessments to make your sessions more interactive and data-driven. You can create a new survey, import existing ones from the Survey Library, and manage all survey activities directly within the pod without leaving your session.

Key benefits

The Survey pod helps hosts and presenters with the following key benefits:

• Streamlined feedback collection: Conduct surveys with multiple questions in a single pod, reducing the need for multiple poll pods.
• Efficient screen management: The unified interface optimizes on-screen space, allowing hosts to maintain a cleaner and more organized layout.
• Reusable surveys: Save surveys for reuse and import them across different rooms and sessions.
• Enhanced participant experience: Allow anonymous responses and display personalized thank-you messages after submission.
• Flexible data handling: Export the survey package, including questions and metadata for post-session analysis, and standardize survey templates across teams using the Survey Library.

The following topics are covered in this article:

Add a Survey pod

Follow these steps to add the Survey pod to your room:

Create a new survey

Follow these steps to create a new survey:

The survey automatically saves as you build it, ensuring that no data is lost during setup.

Import a survey from the library

You can reuse previously created surveys using the Import from another survey option.

The imported survey appears in the pod and can be edited before use.

Manage the Survey pod

Hosts and presenters can organize and control their survey setup using the available options in the Survey pod menu. These options allow you to save surveys for reuse, export the survey package (including questions and metadata) for reporting purposes, and customize the display of the pod during a session to ensure a seamless experience for both hosts and participants.

You can do the following operations in the options menu:

Preview and edit a survey

Once you have added questions and configured your survey in the Survey pod, you can preview and edit it for participants. The Survey pod allows hosts to review survey details before making them visible to attendees. You can verify the survey title, question type, and participant response settings. If needed, you can also edit the questions or response options before launching the survey.

Conduct a survey during the session

Once you have finalized the survey content, you can launch it to make it visible to all the participants. When launched, the survey becomes live, allowing participants to respond and submit their answers in real-time.

For Hosts and Presenters

A green indicator at the top of the pod confirms that the survey is live. The time elapsed counter helps hosts and presenters track how long the survey has been active. As participants respond, their submissions are updated instantly for the host and presenters to monitor engagement and results.

When multiple questions are added, the Back to summary option collapses the survey view to display only the list of questions, helping hosts manage space efficiently. This option changes to View, allowing you to expand the survey again and review all questions in detail.

View real-time responses and access reports

During a live session, the Survey pod provides hosts and presenters with a real-time overview of participant activity, including how many attendees have started or completed the survey. This instant feedback helps gauge engagement levels while the session is in progress.

For in-depth insights, detailed reports, and individual responses, you can access them from the Event analytics dashboard after the session. The dashboard includes visual summaries, such as pie charts showing participant response status, and allows hosts to analyze data and generate post-event reports.

For Participants

When the host launches a survey, participants see a Start Survey button on their screen. Selecting this button opens the active survey, where participants can view and respond to the available questions.

Participants select their answers and select the Submit button at the bottom of the pod to send their responses. Each question displays response options such as multiple-choice or single-answer, based on how the host set up the survey. A progress indicator, such as 0/1 answered, helps participants track the number of questions they’ve completed.

Participants can also edit their responses as long as the survey remains open and the host has not closed it. This option is available only for non-anonymous surveys.

View submitted responses

After submitting your survey, a confirmation message appears to let you know that your input has been successfully recorded. To review your answers, select View your responses.

Close the survey for responses

Hosts can close a live survey once participants have submitted their responses. This action stops further submissions and finalizes the current survey round. It ensures that only the responses collected before closure are recorded and saved for review.

For Hosts and Presenters

After participants have completed their responses, you can end the survey with the option Close for responses.

When you initiate this action, a closing countdown appears on the screen, notifying participants that the survey will soon close. Any unsubmitted responses are automatically discarded once the countdown completes.

Once the survey is closed, the option Set up the survey for responses appears. This allows hosts to relaunch the same survey to collect new responses or reuse it within the same session.

For Participants

When the host closes the survey, participants see a message stating Survey ended by host, along with the count of responses they have submitted.

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