What’s Poll Everywhere and what is it for?
Poll Everywhere is Temple University’s enterprise polling solution. Whether teaching face-to-face or online, instructors can use Poll Everywhere to create engaging polls and activities to gauge understanding, gather feedback, and spark discussion. Students can easily participate in activities from their own device (via SMS text message, the Poll Everywhere app, or at https://pollev.com), and results can be displayed in real time for immediate feedback. In addition to being able to create a variety of activity types, faculty can add Poll Everywhere activities as slides in their PowerPoint or Google Slides presentations and export poll results to the Canvas gradebook.
How can I access my Poll Everywhere account?
Faculty at Temple can access Poll Everywhere in two ways
In TUportal, click the Poll Everywhere link in the left navigation bar under TUapplications. Follow the prompts to activate your account (if prompted for your email, use your [click-for-email] email address).
In Canvas courses, click the Poll Everywhere link in the left hand course navigation menu. An account will automatically be created for first time users.
How can I use Poll Everywhere in my teaching?
The Poll Everywhere Instructor Guide can help you get started using Poll Everywhere, but here are some some specific ways you can incorporate Poll Everywhere into your teaching.
Ask multiple-choice questions for quick formative assessment that gauges understanding of course content, aids retrieval practice, and reinforces learning.
Generate a word cloud from student responses that expands in real time to visualize where students’ ideas converge or diverge.
Post open-ended questions to provide an opportunity for all voices to be heard and serve as a catalyst for deeper in-class discussion.
Set a Q&A poll to gather questions during a session, where students can upvote questions that they find most interesting or relevant.
Host Competitions to gamify your teaching, where students competitively answer your questions in a gameshow-style format.
Gather completely anonymous responses to your polls, useful when you are discussing controversial topics or asking students to share where they are struggling.
Track the identity of student respondents, needed if you plan to use responses for grading purposes or sync poll results to Canvas as a graded assessment.
Additional tutorials and guidance by Poll Everywhere
Poll Everywhere Help Center (a searchable collection of tutorials and support materials)
Help support
For teaching support
- The CAT is here to help! For drop-in consultations, visit one of our Educational Technology Labs or schedule a one-on-one consultation with an educational technology specialist.
For technical support
- Temple’s Help Desk
- Request Help
- Phone: 215-204-8000
- E-mail: help@temple.edu
- Visit the ITS Poll Everywhere site
- Poll Everywhere support
- Phone: (800) 388-2039
- Email: [click-for-email]