Rev Up Your Productivity: Weekly Tip 1 – Using MS Teams

Microsoft Teams is a collaborative platform available from Office 365. There are many useful apps in Microsoft Teams and I would like to introduce my current favourite Polly. Here are some of the good features of Polly:

• Allows me to gather real-time responses from my team members within Teams itself
• Accepts multiple choice questions, ratings and open-ended comments
• Enable me to schedule my poll
• Set a closing date for each poll
• Supports anonymous or non-anonymous polls

You can simply add Polly to Microsoft Teams for use in your chat group.

To add Polly to Microsoft Teams

1. Open Microsoft Teams
2. Click Apps at the bottom left
3. Click Polly, and followed by the Add button
4. All ready. Now you can proceed to use Polly

To use Polly in a chat group

1. Open your chat group
2. Click on the Parrot icon found under the dialogue box
3. Fill in the pop-up form with your question details
4. Click on the Preview button
5. Click Edit to revise your question or click Send to ask your question
6. Wait for your team members to respond

Here is an example of what shows up:

Voilà! Now you can gather team responses more efficiently. No more scouring through the chat group for everyone’s thoughts. Happy polling!

This post was co-authored by Student Assistant, Kelsie Tan and Digital Scholarship & Education Librarian, Nurashikin.