Poll Everywhere FAQs

Poll Everywhere (PollEv) is a web-based student response system (SRS) that works on any mobile-enabled device (phones, tablets, laptops). Faculty can choose from a wide variety of question types to display via a mobile-friendly website (pollev.com) and ask their students to engage with the content by responding to the questions on their devices. Faculty can also integrate polls questions into any existing presentations built in PowerPoint, Keynote, or Google Slides. Poll questions (Multiple choice and Clickable Image) are the two poll types that allow for true grading. These graded question types can be integrated as poll grade results in Canvas gradebook.

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FAQ UNC Charlotte website – All things Poll Everywhere

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What is Poll Everywhere?

How do I create a poll using Poll Everywhere?

How do I use Poll Everywhere as a Presenter?

What are common uses for Poll Everywhere?

What are the key features of Poll Everywhere?

How can faculty start using Poll Everywhere?

How can students start using Poll Everywhere?

How do I receive support for Poll Everywhere?

Where can I find training materials on Poll Everywhere?

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What is Poll Everywhere?

Poll Everywhere is a student response system (or polling application) licensed by UNC Charlotte Information Technology Services department. The application works well for live audiences using mobile devices like phones, tablets, and laptops. Students participate by visiting a mobile-friendly web page or using the Poll Everywhere app (Apple iTunes or Google Play) for your poll event, sending text messages, or using Twitter. Instructions are displayed on-screen. You can engage your students with real-time interactive questions. This tool will be available to UNC Charlotte instructors, staff, and students starting summer 2017. See Frequently Asked Questions content (https://faq.uncc.edu/) for step-by-step instructions.

How do I create a poll using Poll Everywhere?

Faculty can use the Poll Everywhere website to create and customize their own in-class polls, present them in class as interactive presentation elements, and allow your students to respond via web access or text message. Faculty can also download an add-on for Microsoft PowerPoint, Apple Keynote, or Google Slides to create and customize polling questions. Presenters, teachers, and professors use Poll Everywhere to engage classrooms and gather audience insights in real time. Q&A and multiple choice polls can be presented directly from the web, or they can be embedded directly into a PowerPoint, Apple Keynote, or Google Slides presentation.

POWERPOINT, GOOGLE SLIDES, & APPLE KEYNOTE

See how to install Poll Everywhere into different presentation applications

How do I use Poll Everywhere as a Presenter?

Faculty, teachers and presenters (TAs/GAs/Students) can create and display questions on the fly, including Q&A and multiple choice polls. Questions can be presented directly from the web or embedded in a PowerPoint or Keynote presentation. Audience responses are displayed in real-time. Great for classroom participation, or gathering opinions from the audience.

What are common uses for Poll Everywhere?

Presenters, teachers, and professors use Poll Everywhere to engage classrooms and gather audience insights in real time. Q&A and multiple choice polls can be presented directly from the web, or they can be embedded directly into a PowerPoint or Keynote presentation. Faculty and students can use it to:

  1. Respond to polls: Audience members can respond to the presenter’s questions in real time.
  2. Poll an audience: Presenters can ask spontaneous on-the-fly questions and display poll responses live using the web or Poll Everywhere desktop apps.
  3. Advance Powerpoint slides: Presenters can control the flow of Powerpoint presentations using a smartphone as a wireless remote.

What are the key features of Poll Everywhere?

  • Create or answer multiple choice, true/false, open-ended, ranking poll, and clickable image questions.
  • Fast, seamless operation: when one poll ends, the next is shown automatically.
  • Moderate and approve responses to open-ended questions.
  • Watch results update live.
  • Use easy participant registration to give and receive credit for attendance and participation.
  • View participant response history and correctness.
  • Advance slides in a Windows PowerPoint presentation with the included Presenter Remote feature.

How can faculty start using Poll Everywhere?

Faculty can begin to use Poll Everywhere (beginning April 17, 2017) for their courses. To get a Poll Everywhere teaching account, please contact the below persons in the Center for Teaching and Learning. Access usually takes 12 hours. Once your Poll Everywhere teaching account is created you will be able to go to Polleverywhere.com to register your account and begin using the application. See steps to log into Poll Everywhere.

To get a Poll Everywhere account, do the following:

  1. Attend a Poll Everywhere workshop offered by the Center for Teaching and Learning. View the CTL calendar for available dates and times
    • Depending on the time needed, a 1-1 consultation can be scheduled within reason
  2. A Poll Everywhere account will be created for you in the workshop
  3. When you receive the emailed invitation, click on the link and register your PollEverywhere account
  4. Use PollEverywhere in your favorite presentation software (PowerPoint, Keynote, Slides)
  5. Contact the ITS Service Desk by phone at ext. 7-5500 or by email at help@uncc.edu.

If you plan to use PollEverywhere with Powerpoint:

If you plan to use PollEverywhere with Google Slides:

  • Download and install the Google Slides Polling Chrome extension

If you plan to use PollEverywhere with Apple Keynote:

How can students start using Poll Everywhere?

Faculty using Poll Everywhere in their Canvas courses, will download their respective Canvas course roster into Poll Everywhere. Using their UNC Charlotte email address, students will be able to respond to polling questions by logging into Poll Everywhere via a URL provided by the faculty. Students will receive poll grade results in Canvas as part of the student’s overall participation and engagement.

How do I receive support for Poll Everywhere?

  • For questions on using Poll Everywhere for your class or presentation, and to arrange workshops or individual consultation for yourself or your department, contact the ITS Service Desk by phone at ext. 7-5500 or by email at help@uncc.edu.
  • Attend a live training available every Thursday at 10am EST: www.poll4.com/webinar
  • Contact Poll Everywhere Support at support@polleverywhere.com
  • Call Poll Everywhere (8:00am to 8:00pm) at 1-800-388-2039

Where can I find training materials on Poll Everywhere?