Dot-Voting Board
List the options, give each participant a dot budget, tap to spend dots, and watch a live ranked bar chart reveal the group's priorities. Print or copy the ranked results.
Built by the AbraCalc team
How to play
- Type each option on its own line and set how many dots every participant gets.
- Click Start voting, then have each person tap + dot on the options they want to back.
- Click Next voter between people to reset the dot budget without clearing any votes already placed.
- When voting is done, click Copy results or Print results to save the ranked list.
Dot voting is how a group narrows a long list down to what actually matters, and this board runs the exercise without physical stickers. List up to ten options and set how many dots each participant gets, then click Start voting. Each voter spends their dots by tapping + dot on the options they care about most, and the board enforces the budget so nobody can place more dots than they were given; a wrong tap after the budget runs out shakes gently instead of doing anything destructive. Between voters, click Next voter to reset the budget for the next person while keeping every dot already placed. A live ranked bar chart shows exactly where the group's priorities are landing as votes come in. When voting wraps up, copy the ranked results as text or print a clean copy. Nothing typed or tapped here is uploaded anywhere.
Frequently asked questions
- How is this different from the Class Poll / Vote tool?
- Class Poll gives each person exactly one vote for one option. This dot-voting board gives every participant a budget of multiple dots that they can spread across several options, which is the standard format for prioritization exercises rather than single-choice polls.
- What happens if a voter tries to place more dots than their budget?
- The plus-dot button disables itself once a voter's remaining dots hit zero, and any attempted overspend is rejected outright and shakes the voter panel — the vote total never exceeds what was allotted.
- Can a voter take back a dot they placed by mistake?
- Yes, the minus-dot button removes one dot from an option and returns it to that voter's remaining budget immediately, so mistakes can be corrected without resetting the whole board.