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Center for Innovative Learning: PollEverywhere

Poll Everywhere

Poll Everywhere, a dynamic tool that fosters student engagement through live polling.

 

What is Poll Everywhere? Poll Everywhere is a web-based platform that lets you create interactive polls, quizzes, and surveys. Students can respond using their mobile devices, laptops, or tablets. Poll Everywhere provides an easy way to gauge understanding, collect feedback, and spark discussions, whether in all modalities.

 

How to Access it? https://id.polleverywhere.com/login. Use your SSO username and password. Don't have a presenter account? Let me know, and I will get you set up!

Key Features to Explore

  • Live Polling: Create polls that students can respond to in real-time using their devices.
  • Word Clouds: Visualize student input with live word clouds, which are great for brainstorming or assessing knowledge.
  • Quizzes and Surveys: Use quizzes for formative assessments or gather student feedback with anonymous surveys.
  • Embedded in Presentations: Integrate Poll Everywhere into PowerPoint for seamless in-class polling during lectures.
  • Canvas Integration: Results upload to the grade book

 

Training Webinars (link to registration or recorded session)

How To Guides

 

If you'd like assistance setting up Poll Everywhere or learning more about how to use it effectively, I'm here to help!

Resources for Instructors

Set Up a Poll Everywhere Account and Link to Canvas

All faculty at ACPHS have a presenter account on Poll Everywhere. You will log in with your normal ACPHS login information. If you are a new instructor or are having trouble, please email the Center for Innovative Learning.

If this is your first time using PollEverywhere for a course, you need to connect to Canvas and import your course roster (directions above). This creates the students' accounts in PollEverywhere and links them to your course. Once that's done for each course, you'll be able to easily view student participation, see question results, and, if you'd like, export results to the Canvas gradebook. 

Download the Poll Everywhere PowerPoint Add In

After you have your Poll Everywhere presenter account, log in with your ACPHS credentials and get started creating activities!

Start Using Poll Everywhere

There are two ways to conduct polling with your students:

  1. Standalone Activities via the web
  2. PowerPoint Activities via the PollEverywhere add-in

Both of these ways store all your activities in the cloud, so they can be accessed from anywhere. Creating your questions on the web and then inserting them into your slides is the best way to get started.

PollEverywhere provides a great set of bite sized video tutorials to get started creating activities and conducting polls.

Download the Poll Everywhere PowerPoint Add In

Once you have created your activities, download the PowerPoint add-in for Windows to connect your activities to your slides.

Resources for Students

Poll Everywhere for Students

Students at ACPHS will be able to use Poll Everywhere (with no license purchase required!) to respond to activities. Responses are linked to class rosters, and logging in will simply use your ACPHS information.

Guides for Using Poll Everywhere

Getting Started

Logging in to Poll Everywhere at ACPHS

Responding to Questions

Viewing Responses and Grades

Common Troubleshooting Solutions

Readings

Readings

Egelandsdal, K., Krumsvik, R.J. Clickers and formative feedback at university lectures. Educ Inf Technol 22, 55–74 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10639-015-9437-x

Khanna, M. M., & Cortese, M. J. (2016). The benefits of quizzing in content-focused versus skills-focused coursesScholarship of Teaching and Learning in Psychology, 2(1), 87–97. https://doi.org/10.1037/stl0000051

Khanna, M. M. (2015). Ungraded Pop Quizzes: Test-Enhanced Learning Without All the AnxietyTeaching of Psychology42(2), 174–178. https://doi.org/10.1177/0098628315573144

Nevid, J. S., & Mahon, K. (2009). Mastery Quizzing as a Signaling Device to Cue Attention to Lecture MaterialTeaching of Psychology36(1), 29–32. https://doi.org/10.1080/00986280802529152