Google Meet polls require a supported meeting edition and can also be disabled by a Workspace administrator. Poll creation and voting have different device requirements. Check the moderator’s available tools before building an activity around a live vote.
Saving a Google Meet poll lets a moderator prepare its question without immediately asking the room to vote. This is a draft inside the current meeting, rather than a poll library guaranteed to remain for a future session. Review the wording and anonymity choice before launch.
Launching a Google Meet poll makes it available for responses. Saving a draft and publishing it are different steps, so verify the poll is live before asking people to vote. Explain the question and its privacy setting before responses are submitted.
A Google Meet poll accepts a submitted vote that cannot be changed afterward. Read the question, options, and anonymity setting before selecting Vote. Polls can gather a preference, but they do not automatically establish that every invited person participated.
Use End the poll in Google Meet when voting is finished but the question should remain visible during the meeting. Deleting a poll is a separate action that removes it from the visible list. Choose the control that matches your intention before clearing a completed activity.
Google Meet sends a polling report to the meeting moderator after polls are conducted. Use that report for follow-up because the in-meeting poll list does not survive the call. Check both the question and response mode before interpreting the attachment.
Google Meet Q&A provides a question list separate from the meeting chat. It requires a supported meeting edition and can be disabled by an administrator. Check whether questions are allowed before directing attendees to submit them during a presentation.
Google Meet Q&A lets participants submit questions and upvote existing ones. It keeps a question queue separate from ordinary chat. Before posting a duplicate, inspect the list and decide whether another person’s question already expresses what you need to know.
Google Meet can hold each Q&A submission until a host approves it. This is separate from hiding a question after it has already appeared. Enable moderation before collecting questions if the audience must not see unreviewed posts.
Marking a Google Meet Q&A item answered tells participants that the moderator considers it handled. It does not itself supply an answer or resolve a missing decision. Use the status after the relevant response, then review the report for unanswered follow-up.