Quickstart Guide
Getting Started with Poll Everywhere
The document is a quickstart guide explaining how to access and use Poll Everywhere. It highlights key features such as live polling, audience response activities, multiple question types, surveys, and participation reporting to support active learning and real-time feedback. The guide also outlines Canvas integration steps and support resources, including tutorials and additional materials to help instructors get started.
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What is Poll Everywhere?
Poll Everywhere’s audience engagement platform transforms presentations, meetings, and classrooms into interactive experiences. Presenters create live polls, quizzes and Q&A sessions, allowing participants to respond in real time via mobile devices, web browsers, or SMS.
How can Poll Everywhere enhance teaching and learning?
Use polls to encourage real-time participation from all students and break down classroom barriers, creating a more dynamic and inclusive learning environment. Instant feedback helps to identify knowledge gaps immediately, enabling just-in-time teaching adjustments. Use multiple question types to assess different levels of learning, from basic recall to critical thinking, for more creative assessment methods beyond traditional testing.
Engage
Provide immediate participation through multiple devices and enables users to interact in ways that feel natural
Enhance
Display results graphically in real-time to create collaborative visualization of group thinking
Extend
Work across multiple devices, support various languages, support users with different response preferences
Key Features
Multiple Choice
Multiple choice polls allow instructors to create traditional multiple choice, true/false, and Likert scale questions. Participants respond live using their device, and results appear instantly as visual charts and graphs. These questions can serve as icebreakers, discussion starters, or debate prompts, encouraging students to articulate and defend their choices.
Why Use This?
Multiple choice activites support active participation and formative assessment by quickly gathering student responses and checking for understanding in real time. This feature can further help instructors to check understanding, spark discussion, and adjust instruction based upon immediate feedback. Additionally, instructors can use results as a springboard for deeper exploration of topics or to prompt students to explain their reasoning.
Q & A
The Q & A feature allows students to submit questions, comments, or ideas during a session from their own devices. Responses can be submitted anonymously, and participants can upvote or downvote submissions, which allows the most relevant or popular questions to rise to the top.
Why Use This?
Q & A activites support inclusive participation by providing students with a space to ask questions and share ideas. Given that responses are anonymous, this approach encourages student voice and reduces participation barriers for shy or hesitant students who might not otherwise speak up. and helps instructors identify areas that need clarification. Presenters can utilize these responses and adjust lessons accordingly, such as following up on top-voted questions or recapping key details.
Word Cloud
Word Cloud allows instructors to collect brief, open-ended responses and display the most frequently submitted words or phrases in an interactive visual format. It provides a quick way to surface common ideas, perspectives, questions, or associations across a class and make student thinking visible in real time.
Why Use This?
Word Clouds provide a visual that represents common ideas, perspectives, questions, and associations between students. They provide a low-stakes way to activate prior knowledge, check understanding, and identify patterns or misconceptions that can inform instruction. Instructors can also use the word cloud's results to spark discussion, draw connections, and encourage reflection about the topic.
Survey
Poll Everywhere’s survey feature allows instructors to combine multiple questions and activity types into a single, organized questionnaire. Students can respond to the survey privately and at their own pace, making it useful for collecting feedback, checking understanding, administering quizzes, or gathering information regarding student reflections. Surveys can be shared through a link or included as a presentation.Survey Support
Why Use This?
By using surveys, instructors can combine different activity types, such as multiple choice, open-ended questions, and clickable images, allowing them to collect a variety of information through one activity. Surveys can support formative assessment, pre- and post-class feedback, student reflection, and low-stakes quizzes. Since students can complete surveys privately and at their own pace, they can also provide a useful way to gather individual perspectives that may not emerge during whole-class discussion.
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