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Poll Everywhere

Poll Everywhere 

Poll Everywhere is an online service that allows teachers to ask their students a question. The students answer the question using their mobile phones, Twitter, or web browsers. Both the question and the students’ responses are displayed live in Keynote, PowerPoint, and/or on the web.

All SPH faculty has access to a Higher Ed license. Contact us if you need assistance. 

Canvas integration

Go to Modules and create a Module by clicking on ‘+ Module’ button, top right corner.
Name the module whatever you like (e.g Poll Ev Integration) in the subsequent popup window, then click the ‘Add Module’ button to save. The module will be placed at the bottom of the page.
Within your new module, click the ‘+’ button. From the dropdown menu at the top of the popup window, select ‘External Tool’, then select Poll Everywhere and click ‘Add Item’ to save.
Now, click on the new Poll Everywhere link. You will see a ‘Load Poll Everywhere in a new window’ button. Click this button to launch the Poll Everywhere connection.

A new window will ask you to continue to LMS to login.

Click on the blue button: texasam.instructure.com

Your canvas course will appear, then click on Sync roster.

Your roster will be imported. Do not close this window, if you want to start creating your polls directly in Poll Everywhere (steps explained below).

Graded participation

For graded participation, you have two options: 

  • Grade that is equal to the points per poll, e.g 1 point. If you would like to have 1 point per poll, then the trick is to assign 1 point to all answers, no matter if they are correct or incorrect. This way you are going to export 1 point per participation. 
  • Participation that is equal to a 100, no matter if the responses were correct or not. This will give all students 100 if they participated. 

 

Attendance Management

Poll Everywhere’s Attendance Management offers automated attendance tracking and reporting combined with a full suite of interactive polling activities, arming presenters with every tool they need to motivate their audiences and improve learning outcomes.

  • Set geofence attendance locations where you present content
  • Automatically prompt participants to check into geofenced locations before joining a presentation
  • Participants check into presentations by verifying their physical location

Tutorials