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The main question types include surveys, word clouds, Q&As, multiple choice questions, open-ended questions, ranking questions, clickable images, and competitions.

Instructors can use multiple-choice or open-ended questions for live quizzing, knowledge checks, and exit tickets. Track attendance, engagement, and facilitate think-pair-share activities using polls, rankings, and clickable images. Poll Everywhere can also assist with guiding interactive debates and discussions, in-class competitions and leaderboards, and allows students to submit their own questions anonymously.

Outside of the classroom, Poll Everywhere is also a great tool for meeting engagement, check-ins, and feedback. Rankings, multiple-choice polls, word clouds, and open-ended responses can be conducive for group brainstorming and decision making. Participants can select where they’re from on a map using the clickable images activity type, or submit anonymous input with participant-generated questions.

Presenting from the web:

Select the activity from the Activities page by clicking its title. Click the “Present” button at the top of the screen. This will enter full screen mode and automatically activate the activity. (Activities must be active to present for participants. Inactive activities can still be responded to asynchronously if students are given the link.) Your presentation controls will appear at the bottom of the screen. Click the Exit button at the far right to exit presentation mode, or press the Escape key on your keyboard.

Presenting from a Desktop Application:

It is possible to embed and run a Poll Everywhere activity from within a handful of desktop applications, including PowerPoint, Keynote, and Google Slides. Visit the to see a full list.

Download the Poll Everywhere Add-In for PowerPoint:

Yes! You can create an assignment directly from your course’s landing page on the Poll Everywhere website. Click the Courses icon in the left-hand navigation, select your course, then click the “Add an Assignment” button. This will auto-generate an assignment in the Canvas LMS under your course. You can then add one or multiple polls and activities to that assignment and sync the grades at any time by clicking the “Sync Grades” button on the right.

You can also create an Assignment in Canvas directly and either embed your activity, share the activity’s link, or insert the activity’s QR code into the assignment’s description. The embed code for the activity can be found by navigating to the activity’s settings page in Poll Everywhere. Click the “Send” section, then “Share and embed,” and then copy the code.

Yes! Canvas assignments can be created directly from your Poll Everywhere account and grades synced with just one button click. In Poll Everywhere, navigate to Courses, then select the course where your assignment is located. Next to the assignment, you will see a sync grades button.

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You can re-use activities across course sections and in future terms. You must clear responses from an activity to use it again. Cleared responses are archived and can be accessed either via the activity’s Response History or through Reports. The recommended method for clearing responses is to and check the activities you want to clear. Click the “Clear” button that appears in the newly revealed actions menu. A window will pop-up where you can name and archive the responses for later reporting access. This works well for a series of activities used for the same class on the same day, or within the same presentation. For instructors teaching multiple sections, make sure to clear poll results before the next section begins.

You can also clear responses by clicking the “Clear” button in the presentation controls at the bottom of the screen. This option is best for standalone activities, and the cleared results are saved as a “run” based on the date they were cleared. You can access the activity’s past responses from the Response History tab in the activity’s settings.

Please Note: This option does not work for Surveys and Competition activity types.

You can display a poll at the start of class that only students who are present can answer (e.g. Word of the Day, the color shirt you’re wearing, etc.) Timers can be set on the activity to limit the window of opportunity at your discretion. When setting up your poll, configure the settings to Restrict to registered participants only.

From the Reports page, activity results can be created and exported in five different report types. Each report can be viewed online, printed as a PDF, or downloaded as a CSV file.

From the Reports page located in the left-side navigation, click Create Report at the top of the page and select the desired report type. Click Continue and then the My Activities folder to select the specific activity you want to run the report for. Click Create Report and configure the report’s settings as needed.

You can change the resolution of the screen being presented to the class to 1280x800. You can also check the display settings for your device’s screen and the presented screen to make sure they are set to the same resolution.

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   If multiple choice answers are not displayed properly when presenting your activity, go into the activity on polleverywhere.com and click Visual Settings in the top right corner.
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   Check the box for Auto-fit content.
3. Click Done at the bottom of the page.

Ask the student to make sure they are logging into the activity using their ÕýÆ·À¶µ¼º½ email address. Responses from participant accounts that use personal email addresses will not sync with your Poll Everywhere participants list.

On the Poll Everywhere website, visit your Courses page and click the Sync Roster button. Re-syncing the roster should resolve the issue if you have a student whose responses aren’t included when syncing or exporting grades to Canvas.

Verify that your activity is active (not paused or deactivated) and unlocked, and verify that the student is accessing the correct session and is logged in to Poll Everywhere with their ÕýÆ·À¶µ¼º½ credentials and not with a personal email address.

If the problem appears to be network connectivity, this is sometimes more common with larger classes and can often be the result of overloading the network in that particular classroom. You can request that students disconnect any devices that they don't need during class to allow others to connect for the activity.