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
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!
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.
After you have your Poll Everywhere presenter account, log in with your ACPHS credentials and get started creating activities!
There are two ways to conduct polling with your students:
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.
Once you have created your activities, download the PowerPoint add-in for Windows to connect your activities to your slides.
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.
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