How to run an idea board

An idea board is a campaign of ideas instead of questions. You post the ideas, and the people who can respond vote each one up or down from the board’s link. Each idea’s score shows which ones they want most. It works like a survey in every other way: you open it, share it and close it the same way.

Before you start

• For your organization’s board, you need to be one of its managers. For an event’s board, you need to manage the event or have an event role that includes surveys.

Steps

1. In your organization’s menu, click Feedback & Voting, then Add Campaign. For a board about one event, use Feedback & Voting in the event’s planner instead.

   

2. Enter a Title and set Campaign Type to Idea Board (Upvoting). Leave Who can add new ideas? on Managers Only (Users only upvote): you post the ideas, and people vote on them.

   

3. Choose Who can respond?, as for a survey, and click Save. All Dodgeball Hub Users lets anyone signed in vote from the link.

   

4. Click the board’s arrow (View) to open it.

   

5. Click Add Item.

   

6. Name the idea in Question / Idea Title, explain it in Description, and click Save. Its Item Type is Idea (Upvote Only). Add each idea the same way, and drag one by its handle to move it up or down the board.

   

7. Click Settings, set Status to Open and click Save. Then share the link or notify people, as for a survey.

   

8. People who open the link vote an idea up or down with its arrows, and see its score: votes up minus votes down. Clicking their vote again takes it back, and they can change it while the board is open.

   

9. Back on the board, open the Answers tab: each idea shows its Upvotes, Downvotes and Score.

   

When the vote is over, close the board like a survey: its link then says it’s closed.