Re: [Tools-discuss] polls "show of hands": can we include a "i don't understand" or "not enough information" option

[Martin Thomson <[e-mail]>]

On Thu, Nov 19, 2020, at 12:33, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> On Wed 2020-11-18 14:58:28 -0800, Eric Rescorla wrote:
> > Is there some reason why the responses have to be canned and can't be
> > provided by the chairs? Then we could just have as many as the chairs want
> > and with whatever content.
> 
> If we do this (i'd be happy with it, and we could provide some
> pre-canned choices for a WG chair that just wants something simple),
> it'd be nice to stage the polling options visibly so the group can
> preview them before the "hand raising" starts.

A related suggestion: have the poll take the place of the slides.  Or show it in an overlay.  The tabbed interface is quite poor for this. As a chair, I found that trying to construct a poll while also managing a queue and trying to monitor chat is impossible alone.  As a participant, with slightly less responsibility, but more engagement with discussion, it's nearly as bad.

Having chat visible while formulating the poll would be ideal as well, as suggestions for text could be more readily copied.