Poll Everywhere staff guide

You can create a wide range of activities in Poll Everywhere. There are many different types of activity that fall into six broad categories:

• Multiple choice,
• Free text,
• Ranking,
• Clickable image,
  • Please note that clickable image polls do not support keyboard methods to reply.
• Survey,
• Competition.

Each category is described in Activity Types below.

1. Log into your account on the Poll Everywhere website.
2. Select Activities > My Activities.
3. Select the +Activity icon.
4. Select your activity type from the options. Select More to see further choices.
5. Type your questions into the Title box:

• If your poll has answers, add the answers.
• If your poll has a correct answer, mark the correct answer
• If your poll is a clickable image, select or upload the image

6. To create another activity, select Add another activity, and repeat steps 1 - 5.
7. After adding all your activities, select Create.
8. A new screen will open and you can configure or present your activity.

Poll Everywhere supports the use of both TeX and LaTeX within polls. See the guidance below on how to enter formulae so that the system translates text into mathematical expressions.

• Share: Create shareable links to individual polls or surveys
• Visual settings: Change the colour scheme, font or font size and how the results are displayed.

To view how many responses are being received while you present the poll, select Total Results and select "show on chart" and "show on instructions".

• Activate: Publish your poll.
• Present: Activates your poll and presents it in a full-screen browser window. Press escape to return.

• Previous/Next: Shows the number of activities in this presentation and which is activated. Move to the previous or next activity.
• Lock: Stop receiving any further responses
• Timer: Start or reset the timer. Set the time in the Configure menu
• Instruction/responses: Toggle between hiding and showing responses.
• Clear results: Remove previous responses. Useful if you want to re-use a poll.

How people can respond

By default, every activity is set up so students can respond by text or website. You can choose to disable text responses.

Audience restriction and identity:

You can choose whether to require students to log in to respond to logs and whether to keep their responses anonymous. It is possible to require login and have anonymous responses.

• Who can participate? Choose whether students have to log in to participate in the activity - anyone with the response page URL or only registered respondents. Students can register by signing in to www.Pollev.com or the Poll Everywhere App using their university credentials.
• How do you want to identify participants?
  • If you do not restrict responses to registered participants only, you can choose between auto-generated IDs or completely anonymous. By default, this is set to Auto-generated IDs. The ability for participants to enter their own user IDs has been disabled.
  • For competitions only, the University has enabled the option for participants to enter their own screen names. Students will be prompted to add their own identifier when they access the competition. You can choose to restrict responses to registered participants only.
  • If you have restricted responses to registered participants, you can choose whether to identify participants with their register name and email or to make the poll completely anonymous.

When polls are anonymous, students will see the following message:

Please note: Once you have set a poll to be completely anonymous, you cannot change this setting.

Response settings:

These settings control:

• How many times people can respond to an activity - a limited number or as many times as they like.
• Whether people can change their response before the activity is locked.
• Whether to show the activity title.
• Whether to send a message in reply to each response.

Schedule lock/unlock times

Set times for the activity to lock or unlock automatically.

Moderation

Choose different levels of moderation and profanity filters in free-text activities. The filter relies on a dictionary of terms maintained by Poll Everywhere.

• If you enable moderation, each response must be checked by a moderator before it is displayed. You can share the moderation with other presenters in your team. This can be time consuming, so ensure you will have help on the day before choosing this option.
• Automatic profanity filter. Choose between:
  • Disable filter: no filter
  • Censor profanity out of response: The censored response is shown with the profanity replaced by asterisks
  • Block responses with profanity: The responses are not displayed at all
• Filter emoji responses: Allow or block emojis.

Timer: Set a time limit for participants to respond to your activity. Remember that those with accessibility issues may need longer to respond.