Poll Everywhere

Tutorials

Getting Started

• Requesting a Poll Everywhere License
• Logging into Poll Everywhere for the first time
• Update Account Settings
• Register for a Webinar

Creating and Customizing a Poll

• Create Activities
• Customize Activities
• Activity Settings
• Poll Moderation
• Profanity Filter
• Setting up Weighted Grading
• Customize Your Username and the URL of your Response Page

Presenting and Sharing your Polls

• Presenting and Sharing Activities
• Student Mobile Participant App
• Mobile Presenter App
• Poll Everywhere in Microsoft Teams

PowerPoint Plugin

• What is the PowerPoint Plugin?
  The Poll Everywhere PowerPoint Plugin is an application you install on your computer (and the computer you’re going to be presenting on) that lets you integrate polls from Poll Everywhere into your PowerPoint. You no longer need to navigate out of your PowerPoint to Poll your students or your audience!
• What do I need to know about using Poll Everywhere in PowerPoint?
• How to install the PowerPoint Plugin on my personal device
• How to install the PowerPoint Plugin on an STC Windows device
• How to set up Polls in my PowerPoint

Reports

• Intro to Reports
• Report Types

Blackboard

• Creating Student Accounts in Poll Everywhere
• Auto-Syncing Student Account Creation

  Did you know you can set your Poll Everywhere account to auto-sync the Roster for you? With Auto-syncing, any time you get a new student in your class they will automatically have a Poll Everywhere account created for them, without you needing to do a thing! Here’s a guide to set this up:

  Auto-Syncing Tutorial

• Student Tutorial – Logging into their New Account for the First Time
• Setting up Polls so they can be graded by Blackboard
• Exporting Grades from Poll Everywhere to Blackboard

Accessibility

Here is Poll Everywhere’s Accessibility Documentation:

Accessibility and Poll Everywhere

F.A.Q.

General/Other

• Do I need to request a Poll Everywhere account through South Texas College, or can I use a free one?

  You could create a free Poll Everywhere account if you want, but you’ll be restricted to 25 participants per poll. Requesting an account through South Texas College is easy, doesn’t cost you a thing, and gives you extras like importing students from Blackboard to give them Poll Everywhere accounts and unlimited poll responses.

• Is Poll Everywhere only for Faculty?

  Poll Everywhere is available for all faculty, staff and students at South Texas College.

• How can I get a Poll Everywhere account?
• Does a Poll Everywhere account cost me or my students anything?

  South Texas College is paying for a site license for Poll Everywhere, so there is no cost for you or your students to use it.

• How many Polls can I make with my new STC Poll Everywhere account?

  As many as you like. There are no limits.

Students

• Do my students need a Poll Everywhere account to be able to interact with a Poll?

  Students don’t need to have a Poll Everywhere account if you only want them to respond to polls anonymously. However, if you want to track student responses by name or give students a grade for responding to a Poll, then they would need a Poll Everywhere account. See our tutorial on Creating Student Accounts in Poll Everywhere.

• How do I get my students a Poll Everywhere account?
• What can my students do with a Poll Everywhere account?

  Students can:

  • Respond to Polls while logged into a Poll Everywhere account, so that they’re name is recorded with their response
  • Students can access Poll Everywhere and create their own Polls

Reports

• Can I see who has responded to my Poll?

  Only if the person responding to the Poll is logged into a Poll Everywhere account. This means that when you are presenting to a live audience, most responses will be anonymous while some may give you data. With students, responses will typically be anonymous unless the student is signed into a Poll Everywhere account.

• Can I get reports from the Polls that are created?

  You sure can! Poll Everywhere has several different types of Reports you can make. Simply log into your Poll Everywhere account and navigate to the Reports section and click on Create report to see more! Here’s some additional information on how reports in Poll Everywhere work: Intro to Reports

Distance Learning

• Can I use Poll Everywhere in Blackboard?

  Poll Everywhere can be used in Blackboard, either as an embedded activity or a link.

  See the tutorials listed under Tutorials > Blackboard for details on how Poll Everywhere can be used in Blackboard.

• What can Poll Everywhere do in Blackboard?

  Faculty can post a Poll in Blackboard as a link or as an embedded activity. Students can then respond to the activity, and depending on how the Poll was set up, Faculty can then export a grade from Poll Everywhere into the Blackboard gradebook if they so choose. Tutorials on this are listed above under Tutorials > Blackboard.

• Can I embed a Poll in Blackboard?

  Yes, you can embed a Poll in Blackboard Ultra. To find the embed code to do this, log into Poll everywhere and open a Poll into editing. Click on Present > Share and Embed and click on Copy embed script under the section Response link.

  

  
• What do I need to do to set up a Poll so I can get a grade from it for my students?
• How do I get a grade for a Poll I’ve posted in Blackboard?
• How do I know if I was successful at creating student Poll Everywhere accounts?

  When you Import the Roster from Blackboard to Poll Everywhere, it should automatically take you to Poll Everywhere and show you the students that were imported. If this doesn’t happen, you can always log into Poll Everywhere and filter out the list of Participants to show only your class, and then double check the list with your roster in Blackboard.

  

  
• I just imported a roster from Blackboard to Poll Everywhere. How do my students access their accounts?
• What do I do if I already exported my students to Poll Everywhere, but there were new students added to my class?

  No worries. Just go through the process of adding your students to Poll Everywhere again. Poll Everywhere will automatically find the new students on your list and create accounts for them, without affecting your other students.

Presentations

• Can I use Poll Everywhere in a PowerPoint?

  You most certainly can! The Poll Everywhere PowerPoint Plugin should be installed on most if not all classroom computers, but it’s not installed on office computers. In order to use Poll Everywhere in PowerPoint you’ll need to install a plugin on your personal device or STC device. Here’s what you need to know:

  Installing the plugin on a personal device

  Go to https://www.polleverywhere.com/app and select the plugin that best fits your computer.

  Installing the plugin on an STC Windows device

  If you are installing the plugin on an STC computer there’s a way to do this without having to put in a ticket with IT. Here’s the tutorial on how to do this.

  Note

  You’ll need to have the plugin installed in the classroom or on the computer you plan to present on. The plugin should already be installed in every classroom here at STC, but if you find a classroom that it isn’t installed in that you need, please submit a ticket to the IT Service Desk at 956-872-2111 or via email at isphelp@southtexascollege.edu.

• Can I use Poll Everywhere in Google Slides?

  You most certainly can, but you’ll need a Chrome Plugin to do this. Go to https://www.polleverywhere.com/app to get the plugin. This plugin will need to be installed on the Chrome Browser of both the computer you’re creating the Google Slides from, and the computer where you’re presenting the Google Slides.