How to easily create scheduling polls: A 5-step guide

Scheduling is more challenging than ever. Most people’s calendars are packed with meetings and events. People can also be difficult to reach; if you can reach them, they may not respond to your scheduling request.

Make it easy on yourself and use SurveyMonkey to create online polls for scheduling meetings! Instead of hunting people down repeatedly by phone or email, use SurveyMonkey to build your poll. Then, ask people to respond by sending a link in an email or embedding your questionnaire on web and Facebook pages. You can even automate reminders to respond.

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If you don’t already have a SurveyMonkey account, sign up for free to create and send your online scheduling poll in minutes. We make it simple to compose your questions, or you can get a head start with expert-certified templates and questions from our Question Bank. Then, email or post the link to your poll and collect responses. Voila!

Scheduling polls are online forms that propose meeting times and allow users to select the times that work for their schedule.

They can also gather general availability data for work scheduling. This minimizes the need to play phone or email tag and makes scheduling meetings, events, or work rotations simpler than ever before.

With SurveyMonkey, you can create and send availability polls with a click of a button.

Use online polls to refine your meeting scheduler for any meeting, event, class, or activity!

Use a SurveyMonkey online poll to schedule a meeting. Figure out possible dates and times for a global team meeting. Planning an offsite? Ask for preferences on meeting locations, menus, and extracurricular activities to streamline scheduling and planning.

If you run a restaurant, retail store, or any business with many employees working different shifts, creating a scheduling poll makes it easy to build your schedule by getting everyone’s availability laid out in one place.

Assess host and guest availability and zero in on dates for big internal and external company, neighborhood, or association events.

Poll far-flung family members for potential dates and locations for a reunion or other family celebration.

Poll friends for the best dates and times for the next cookout, group camping trip, girls’ night out, park playdate, or poker game.

Determine interest level and best day, date, and time of day for scheduling classes, courses, or seminars.

Run polls to gather volunteer availability and schedule a calendar of activities.

It’s easy to create a scheduling poll with SurveyMonkey. Here’s how you do it:

Sign up for your free SurveyMonkey account to start the scheduling polls. Consider using one of our many online poll templates to start.

To create a poll, you will first ask a question such as, “Which of the proposed times could you attend a Zoom call to discuss the Q3 budget?” Then, you will add date, time, and meeting duration options.

SurveyMonkey makes it easy to distribute your scheduling poll to involved parties. Send the poll link via email, or add the link to a Facebook or Twitter post to gather responses.

Once recipients respond, you can determine the meeting time for most participants. Alternatively, you can learn the respondents' work availability to create the next work rotation.

Lastly, it’s time to use the results to schedule the meeting or event. Choose the date and time that yielded the most responses to ensure you have the highest number of attendees at your meeting or event.

Simplify scheduling using SurveyMonkey online polls, and then explore other ways to use surveys. Use any of our survey templates as the basis for your online poll, or start with one or more of the many methodologically sound and certified questions in our Question Bank. While all of our questions are written by professional survey methodologists, you can also customize questions to fit your polling or surveying needs.