Voting Pages serve as a means to elicit participant preferences concerning the various options you've presented to them. To put it simply, this is where participants cast their votes on a collection of competing options or outcomes united by a shared issue. Consider an instance where the focal issue is "City Services," and the options open for voting encompass "fire department," "police department," "human services," "recreational facilities," and more. In this illustrative scenario, the setup enables participants to express their levels of support or opposition regarding the allocation of resources to each city service through their votes. Ethelo then aggregates these individual preferences, yielding comprehensive group results that spotlight the outcome with the most significant backing. These results become the foundation for shaping a robust group consensus surrounding a concise selection of outcomes.
There are several ways to configure a Voting page, each with its particular own benefits given the desired engagement outcome. Within a Voting Page, you can set up your own options, options attributes, voting criteria, and topics, which we will learn about later in the tutorial. For now, briefly view the different kinds of Voting Pages we have available:
- Topic Voting Page is for creating a specific kind of voting page that enables participants to vote on every Option in a Topic
- Single Option Voting Page is where a single option is evaluated according to one or more criteria
- Criteria Voting Page is where a group of options is evaluated according to the criteria
This information is combined with preference information gathered from weighting pages
- Topic Weighting Pages: where the relative importance of groups of options can be evaluated
- Criteria Weighting Pages: where the relative importance of different criteria can be evaluated