Audience questions, voted to the top
Updated 2026-09-20
An upvoted questions board turns one question of your survey around: instead of answering something you wrote, your audience writes questions of their own and votes on each other's. The list reorders itself as votes arrive, so the thing most people want to hear about ends up at the top. It is a paid feature, and you add it like any other question type.
What you set up
Add an Upvoted Questions question in the builder and write the prompt that sits above the board, the way you would write any other question. Something like "What should we cover at the end?" or "What do you want to ask the panel?" works better than a bare "Questions", because it tells people what kind of question belongs there.
That prompt is the whole setup. The voting has nothing to configure.
What your audience sees
Under your prompt they get a box to write a question in, and the list of everything asked so far. Each entry has an arrow and a count. Tapping the arrow adds a vote and tapping it again takes it back, so nobody is stuck with a vote they changed their mind about.
A question can be up to 280 characters, and a board holds up to 200 of them. The board refreshes every few seconds on its own, so the ranking moves while people are looking at it without anyone reloading anything.
One person gets one vote per question. That is tracked in their own browser rather than by an account, since respondents never sign in, so it stops the ordinary double-tap rather than a determined vote stuffer. For most rooms that is the right trade: nobody has to log in to take part.
Reviewing questions before they appear
By default every question goes straight onto the board. If you are presenting to an audience you do not know, tick Review questions before they appear when you add the board. New questions then wait for you instead, and the person who sent one is told it is waiting rather than left wondering where it went.
Either way, you can take any question off the board from your results screen at any time, and put it back. Nothing is deleted, so a question you remove keeps the votes it already had if you change your mind.
On a projector, an open board is showing whatever was last submitted until you get to the button. If you cannot predict the room, review mode is the safer setting.
Reading the board afterwards
The board appears on your results screen alongside your other questions, in both the grid and the Present view, ranked the same way your audience sees it. Below it, if there is anything to deal with, sits a short list of questions that are waiting for you or that you took down.
The CSV export covers the board too, as a separate file from your responses: one row per question asked, with its vote count and whether it was shown. It is a separate file because a submitted question is not attached to anyone's response.
What is not recorded
A question someone submits is stored on its own, with no link to the answers that person gave to the rest of the survey. Responses carry no identifier of any kind, which is what keeps an answer from being traced back to a person. A submitted question is different: the whole room reads it. If the two were stored on one row, anyone reading your results could match a sentence the room had seen to that person's private answers. They are stored apart so that is not possible.