Surveys and Polls

Surveys and polls can be used:

To build community and understand how students are feeling about the class and in general
At the start of class as a primer to what’s to come
After each mini lesson (15-20 minutes)
At the end of class as an “exit ticket”
As a review game/trivia before an exam

Zoom Polling

Overview

Zoom Polling is a feature that allows you to ask participants multiple-choice questions and see the distribution of responses. These can be anonymous or identifiable, and the questions can be single-choice (A or B or C) or multiple-choice (can select A, B, and/or C).

Set-up

To use Zoom polling, you must first use the Emory Zoom web portal to enable polls. You must also use the web portal to create your polls (you cannot create polls in the desktop Zoom program).

To create a poll:

Login to the Zoom web portal, go to the Meetings page, and click on your scheduled meeting. (Alternatively, you can click Polling during the meeting. This will open up the web portal in your default web browser where you can add additional polls or questions.)
Scroll down to the Poll option and click Add.
Input the title of the poll (e.g. Class on Monday) and questions/answers for that poll. (To add a new question, click Add a Question at the bottom.)
Change settings as needed (anonymous or not; single choice or multiple choice).
Click Save at the bottom. Your poll will now be available in your Zoom meeting.

When you create a poll, it is linked to a specific meeting, so you will only be able to access the poll for that specific meeting. Only the host that created a meeting can add poll questions for that meeting. Note that you can only create a max of 25 polls for a single meeting. Screenshot of menu for creating a poll in Zoom

Launch

To launch a poll:

Start the Zoom meeting with your poll.
Click Polls in the meeting controls.
Select the poll you would like to start and Click Launch Poll.
The meeting participants will now be prompted to answer the polling questions. The host will be able to see the results live. To stop the poll, click End Poll.
You will see the results as shown below on the left. If you would like to share the results to the participants in the meeting, click Share Results. Participants will then see the results of the polling questions as shown on the right. (Sharing does NOT show who got the question correct, but this information can be generated in a report later; see Zoom Support link below.)
After you close the poll, you will have the option to Share or Relaunch. If you relaunch a poll, data from the first poll will NOT be saved.

Poll Everywhere

Overview

Poll Everywhere is an external site that can be used as an alternative to Zoom Polling. In addition to basic multiple choice function that Zoom Polling has, Poll Everywhere has many different features including trivia, open ended questions, word cloud, and much more! Emory has a University License that grants you access to the full features (see "Setting up your account" to make sure you have access).

https://canvas-support.emory.edu/canvas-resources/polleverywhere.html

Setting up your account

Your Poll Everywhere account can be accessed by going to https://polleverywhere.com and going to the “Log In” link. If you enter an emory.edu email address, you will be redirected to Emory Login and logged into Poll Everywhere with an appropriate role. (If you already have a free account using an Emory email address, your account was migrated to the Emory enterprise account.)

If you have an account with a non-Emory email address, go into your account and change the associated email address to your “NetID@emory.edu” address to migrate your account. (If you DO NOT change the email address, it will not migrate.)

Creating and using polls

If you have a presenter role, you can create a wide variety of activities within Poll Everywhere at https://www.polleverywhere.com/. You can access and launch your polls by clicking "Activities" or using Poll Everywhere for PowerPoint (see below for more information about PowerPoint integration).

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You are assigned a unique username within the application which can be changed in the Settings menu. This username will be used by your students to access your currently active poll.

We encourage instructors to consult the comprehensive Instructor Getting Started Guide or the documents linked below.

Creating Activities
Grading and Scoring Responses
Activating a Poll and Presenting to the Class
Taking Attendance Using Poll Everywhere
Powerpoint Integration for Mac or Windows

How to get more help (TLT)

Poll Everywhere offers vendor-provided support 8 a.m. - 8 p.m. EST on weekdays at 1-800-338-2039 or via email at support@polleverywhere.com. For help with using Poll Everywhere with Emory’s Canvas instance, please email classes@emory.edu to create a support ticket or schedule a 1:1 appointment via https://it.emory.edu/canvasappointments.

Poll Everywhere hosts two different webinar trainings every two weeks:

Zoom Support

Polling for meetings