PollEV
1. Login to www.polleverywhere.com
Download and install the PowerPoint plugin
2. From here Activities (Polls) can be created in two ways
a. From the website www.polleverywhere.com/my/polls
b. From within PowerPoint
3. Creating an Activity from the website www.polleverywhere.com/my/polls
Login and click Create
4. Select your question type (multiple choice being the most used)
5. Creating or Inserting a Poll from PowerPoint
a. Open PowerPoint and click the Poll Everywhere Ribbon at the top right, then Login by clicking the
b. You can now insert an Activity if you have already created one on the website. Select Insert > Activity
Click the checkbox or the group checkbox of Activities you want to insert.
If you want to insert a NEW Activity within PowerPoint, click New > Activity. You will then have the options explained in #4
Once you're done creating your question, click INSERT. This will insert a PollEV slide with that question into PowerPoint. The same question is also simultaneously built on the pollingeverywhere website.
6. Editing your Activities (Polls) settings for presenting
a. Login to www.polleverywhere.com/my/polls and checkbox the questions or group you wish to edit
EDIT OPTIONS
b. Responses |
c. Reply message (an automated message sent after each question is answered) |
d. How your audience can text |
e. Who can respond Registered participants are for people who've created an account with PollEV. |
f. How people can respond i. Text messages (by texting wustlcme to 22333) ii. Web devices - join by the URL (pollev.com/wucme or pollev.com/4cme) iii. or you can use both |
g. Change Answer Allows participants to change their answer by texting "clear" or "undo", by url participants would click the clear response button |
h. Copy Visual Settings This is for adding the same visual changes to ALL your questions. i. edit just one of your questions according to how you want them all to look. ii. select that question here and apply it to all the questions you want to copy the visuals too. |
7. Running the polls for the audience
i. With your PollEV questions embedded into PowerPoint and your parameters set the way you want, you are ready to start.
ii. Run the slideshow in PowerPoint to start.
iii. The PollEV slide that's shown on the screen will be the question that's activated (open for responding)
The poll will remain open and only close when the next PollEV slide opens
The slideshow path below will show an example
During a live poll, if you hover the mouse in the upper right corner a menu will appear with the following options
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