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About Poll Everywhere
Poll Everywhere is an audience response tool that can be used by faculty, staff, and students within the CWRU community to engage with other members of the CWRU community using interactive activities such as live multiple-choice questions, word clouds, open-ended questions, and competitions.
See the engagement section below to find out more information about how Poll Everywhere can be used in your course to enhance student engagement and make your course more interactive.
CWRU premium Poll Everywhere presenter accounts are available for use to facilitate academic engagement and encourage enhanced participation within the CWRU community. Current CWRU faculty, staff, TAs, and students can use a CWRU Premium Poll Everywhere presenter account to poll other current CWRU community members participating in academic coursework, student service activities, meetings, and other CWRU community gatherings. You can request an account via the account request form button below. Also, see the usage guidelines below about Poll Everywhere's availability at CWRU.
For additional audience response tool options, please review the Audience Response webpage.
Getting Started with Poll Everywhere
To get started using Poll Everywhere, please reference our CWRU Poll Everywhere Presenter Quick Start Guide. Please note that you will need to request an account before you can use Poll Everywhere.
You can download the Poll Everywhere PowerPoint plug-in to your work or personal computer from the Poll Everywhere download and install page. See the Frequently Asked Questions below for information about Poll Everywhere on classroom computers.
We recommend using the Poll Everywhere website or the PowerPoint plug-in to present questions. For ease of creation, we also recommend building questions on the Poll Everywhere website, rather than building questions using the PowerPoint plug-in.
Connecting Poll Everywhere to Canvas
You can also connect Poll Everywhere to your Canvas course and sync grades from Poll Everywhere to Canvas. We have two guides to walk you through how to Sync your Canvas Course with Poll Everywhere and also to Sync Grades from Poll Everywhere to Canvas.
Registering Participants Outside of Canvas
All participants must be registered with their CWRU abc123@case.edu email in order to participate and have their response recorded by a CWRU premium Poll Everywhere presenter account.
Outside of the above Canvas course connection, presenters will have to register their participants via a CSV file. At this time, this requires knowing your audience beforehand and collecting their CWRU emails for registration.
Please review the step by step guide for additional information.
Poll Everywhere is an audience response tool that lets students and other CWRU community members interact with other audience members and their presenter with live polling and interactive activities. Please review the Poll Everywhere Getting Started for Participants guide which provides information on how to download the application, login to your student Poll Everywhere account, view an activity, and provide a response.
Poll Everywhere Articles:
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6 PowerPoint Presentation Ideas to Better Engage Audiences
10 Interactive Presentation Games for Students
6 Ways to Bring Interactive Classroom Activities to Your Classroom
Peer Instruction:
How Dr. Rob Moore Used Poll Everywhere to Engage Students at Old Dominion University
Attendance
Taking Attendance: 11 Best Ways To Take Attendance In College Courses
Please review the Getting Started with Attendance Management for Instructors guide and our Getting Started with Poll Everywhere Canvas course to learn more (coming soon).
- Please note that once the attendance feature is turned on for your account, it is applied to all of your Poll Everywhere questions and can not be managed for individual questions.
Assessment
Poll Everywhere Usage Guidelines
An active CWRU email account is required to create presenter accounts. Student poll respondents must log in using their CWRU abc123@case.edu email account.
CWRU Premium Poll Everywhere presenter accounts are available for use by CWRU faculty, staff, TAs, and students to poll:
- CWRU students in their academic coursework
- CWRU students in CWRU student service activities
- CWRU faculty, staff, and students participating in meetings and other CWRU community gatherings
CWRU Premium Poll Everywhere presenter accounts are not to be used to poll:
- Alumni, and non-CWRU audience members. This includes use at outside conferences and CWRU sponsored events with non-CWRU audience members
- Affiliated hospital residency programs or hospital activities involving non-CWRU students
Account Termination
UTech reserves the right to remove your presenter account from the CWRU premium account should your use of your account violate any of the above-stated conditions. Once removed from the CWRU premium account, your account will become a free Poll Everywhere account.
Frequently Asked Questions
- Is Poll Everywhere installed on my classroom computer?
- Yes, the Poll Everywhere plug-in for PowerPoint is installed on campus classroom TECs.
- I already have a personal or free Poll Everywhere account, how can I use those questions with my CWRU account?
- If you already have a free Poll Everywhere personal account, you can copy or transfer questions from your personal account to your CWRU account.
Poll Everywhere Support
If you ever need help with Poll Everywhere, you have several support options:
- Contact Poll Everywhere support directly via their support portal or email them at support@polleverywhere.com.
- Send an email to polleverywhere@case.edu to contact the CWRU Poll Everywhere Support Team.
- Contact the [U]Tech Service Desk at 216.368.HELP, help@case.edu, or help.case.edu.