Poll Everywhere
About
Poll Everywhere is an audience response system that is used by millions of audience members and students every year. Poll Everywhere activities are used to take attendance, give quizzes, and gauge understanding of students and follow up on feedback.
Note: By default, Poll Everywhere accounts limit the number of responses to a question to 25. You should request to be added to UTHSC's enterprise account to have full access to all of its features. Send email to tlc@uthsc.edu to make your request.
Frequently Asked Questions
A presenter can only have one active poll or survey at a time. This is how the presenter specifies which poll or survey is accepting responses at that moment in time.
You can group polls to create a self-paced survey that participants can complete on their own. This is useful when your participants are not together at the same place at the same time. Surveys are great for self-paced questionnaires, pre or post session assessments, and quizzes.
If remote participants will be joining in live, you can ask them to respond via the website. When participants go to the address listed on the poll, they will see the poll that is currently active, and can respond to each poll in your session along with everyone else.
If you want to allow participants to respond on their own time, you can share a permalink to your poll. Click the “Present” panel, and click the tab labeled “Share”. You have the option to get a “Sharable response link”, a “Live results link”, or the option to embed the poll into your website or blog.
Yes! First, make sure to install the PollEv Presenter Add-in. On the Poll Everywhere ribbon in PowerPoint, log in, then click "Insert Poll Slides."
For Windows: To use your activity during your presentation, switch to Slide Show/Presentation mode as usual to begin your presentation. You can do this three different ways:
- Press the F5 key on your keyboard.
- Select the Start From Beginning command on the Quick Access toolbar.
Click the Play Slide Show command at the bottom of the PowerPoint window.
For Macs: To use your activity during your presentation, switch to Slide Show/Presentation mode as usual to begin your presentation.
Keynote: Click the Play button in the toolbar to enter Slide Show/Presentation mode.
PowerPoint: Select the Slide Show tab, then click either Play from Start or Play from Current Slide.
Note: The PollEv Presenter Add-in will be added to all computers in the lecture classrooms.
To set the timer, hover over the bottom left corner of a poll, click the timer field, and enter how long you’d like your poll to remain open in minutes and seconds. The timer will begin to count down when you activate the poll. The timer will turn red as the poll nears its close. When the timer hits zero, the poll will automatically lock. When the poll locks, the audience can still see the poll on your PollEv.com presenter page, but no more responses will be accepted for that poll.
Poll Everywhere strongly recommends using the latest version of the internet browsers listed below. Poll Everywhere supports the following internet browsers:
- Chrome (version 68 or later)
- Safari (version 11 or later)
- Internet Explorer 11
- Firefox (version 68 or later)
- Edge (version 17 or later)
If you are using the listed or updated version of a supported browser and Poll Everywhere does not work as expected, try the following:
- Check to see if your internet browser needs updating
- Use a different browser (in its latest version) as a temporary workaround
- Contact customer support and include the version of the internet browser you are using
The mobile edition of PowerPoint makes it convenient to work on your presentation slide deck while on the go. However, it’s not great for presenting. The PowerPoint mobile app doesn’t work with other standalone mobile apps, including Poll Everywhere.
If you will presenting from a computer, we recommend that you use the standalone Poll Everywhere Presenter app. However, if you need to present from PowerPoint on a tablet, here are a couple things to keep in mind.
- The PowerPoint mobile app doesn’t work with the standalone Poll Everywhere mobile app. You will need to use the Poll Everywhere for Office 365 add-in rather than the Poll Everywhere mobile app. You will find this in the Add-ins section of PowerPoint on your tablet.
If you’re having trouble getting your activities to appear on the audience display when using PowerPoint Presenter View, please go to https://www.polleverywhere.com/support/articles/troubleshooting-win/display-settings. These steps will help you change your Windows display settings so your activities display on the proper screen.
Helpful tip: If the activities are appearing on the secondary screen, but are oversized or running off the screen, check out the article on adjusting the DPI of your computer.