Educators' Ideas
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Participation grades
My participants are students and it would be great if they had the following in their displays: 1) groups in which they are enrolled, 2) current participation rate (% of total questions responded), 3) current "correctness" rate, 4) which questions that were presented that they did not respond to. I would also like to see the ability to sync multiple emails to an account so they can respond with both their school and personal accounts.
12 votesThis is great, thanks for the request! We are in some of the very initial design stages for what we’re calling a “Participant Dashboard” which students would be able to easily access from their mobile devices or computers and review this type of information.
Enrolled groups and a “correctness rate” as a proxy for their grade are both doable. The participation rate and generally displaying poll questions they did not respond to is much tougher. With faculty who use Poll Everywhere across multiple courses it is difficult for us to currently know which group/class the polls are for. And, we have some users who do not want to show questions participants did not answer to prevent any cheating or as an incentive to show up to class and answer. So, there are some business concerns as well for that.
Would it work for you all if we had an ability…
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Total the points in gradebook
In the gradebook feature, include a total of the points each poll taker has earned. As I have a paid subscription for my 300+ class, it would be so much easier when a student emails to just look and say "oh, out of the last 20 in-class poll everywhere quizzes, you've earned 15 points." Right now I have to manually add this up. While I appreciate you're integrated with Canvas & Blackboard, my University does not have this function available to me yet (or you'd bet I'd be using it). I've suggested it to them, but am considering switching to…
5 votesWhew, 300+ class I can sympathize with that! My first recommendation is that all of our paid Higher-Ed plans (Including the Individual Instructor Plan that you are on) does come with our Canvas/Blackboard integration. So, if your university will let you, we can set that up for you with no extra cost. Just send an email to support@polleverywhere.com and we can get you set up.
Otherwise, outside of our integrations finding all the poll questions a students DIDN’T ANSWER is a little tricky for us. We record everything based on poll questions instead of students, so finding a “null case” is hard for our system right now. If enough people are interested, we’ll definitely prioritize it. Otherwise, I suggest our LMS integrations in the meantime
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Hi Christine,
Could you give me a little more detail about what is happening with your Canvas Account? You should be able to export our Gradebook accounts to any Canvas Account that is integrated with Poll Everywhere. Worst case scenario it might take another user/login like a TA to upload the Gradebook to a separate Canvas account provided it is integrated on the backend.
If this sounds like what you are having trouble with, can you email us at: support@polleverywhere.com and give us a few more details? We’ll do our best to get to the bottom of this and see what we can do
Hope this helps!
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Improve Grading for Multiple Polls at One Time
Create an easier user interface for grading multiple polls on one page with the option to give a unique number of points for various answers (both incorrect and correct) without having to click on each individual poll and change the response grading from there.
I grade all of the polling questions at the end of the week, and there can be 20+ polls for each section that I'm responsible for. Having to click on each polling question and changing the grade values for each possible response is tedious and is prone to having me make grading mistake on my end…
17 votesWe are actually working on a large project right now that should really help with grading polls. We are basically working on re-doing our entire poll creation process (and we’re finally close enough to talk about it).
This will have greater customization and editing for poll questions at the creation stage (including grading). I do not believe this is currently slated to include increased support to our Weighted Grading feature (https://polleverywhere.uservoice.com/knowledgebase/articles/799830) – which is currently in beta testing. But, this should be an easier process soon
I will update this post when we are about to send out the new update
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After the results - Now What
Have the ability to work with responses on screen.
6 votesWhat do you have in mind exactly Desmond? When you get the results displayed on the screen you can make some visual adjustments (you can see details to our visual settings here https://www.polleverywhere.com/guides/presenter/getting-started#customizing_your_poll)
Or, you can export the results to CSV and manipulate them for analysis and reporting. We cover how that works in detail here: https://www.polleverywhere.com/guides/presenter/reporting
Is there anything else in particular you would like to do? We’re absolutely interested in your feedback and use case
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Make polls close when they are not the “live” PPT slide.
Polls should not be active at all if they are not on screen in Powerpoint.
If you advance to a new slide without a poll, the poll is still active even though it's no longer on screen. This means it can still accept responses. This isn't very helpful if you have a lot of content to cover before the next poll slide is shown.
11 votesWhew, well I am going to leave this open for a while in case other people are interested, but this is going to be very hard for us to do. The reason this is difficult for us is that we have a lot of flexibility and different ways to allow people to get poll responses. For many of these different methods we use the same consistent concept of Activation. Where once you have activated a poll question or survey > that poll question or survey will remain active until you manually deactivate it, activate a separate question/survey, or a set time period passes (by default 1 week).
Sharing this same activation concept helps make it clear for our users to know when/how a poll is active or not. It also helps keep our customer support team and engineering team a bit more sane my minimizing complexity.
We could make it…
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merge surveys
I'd love a way to merge survey response from different classes after doing the same survey with different groups
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Presenters would like the ability to limit polls to specific registered participant groups
This was brought to my attention by a professor who is concerned that students may stumble across the response page when a poll is enabled for a different class or section. The idea is to have a secondary optoin under 'Registered Participants Only' that would further limit access to the polls to participants who are registered in a specific participant group on their user profile.
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Customize background for education, higher education
Add new backgrounds and fonts
11 votesSure! So, currently we have a lot of background color options and the ability to upload a background image. Are you thinking of something like background “templates” sort of like how PowerPoint or Keynote use for slide backgrounds?
Otherwise, on fonts – are there any in particular you are looking for that we don’t have right now?
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Integrate with webinar services
Easy integration with webinar services. Maybe code or the like.
9 votesWhat sort of integration are you thinking of? I know some webinar services have some basic multiple choice polling where you can ask the attendees a quick multiple choice question within the webinar app. Are you thinking of something similar with Poll Everywhere?
Or, something entirely different! Let us know
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Presenters would like to be able to Password protect their polling sessions
This idea was brought to my attention by an educator. The idea is derived from the desire to ensure that students are present in class before participating. One easy way to do this is to apply a simple password or key required to access the presenter's pollev.com response page.
My initial idea is to integrate this into the user settings, in the Poll Settings of the Personal Info page.
8 votesInteresting. Is the goal to ensure that the students are actually physically present in class and prevent cheating?
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Zapier Integration
Please integrate with Zapier.com so we can push data to wherever we need it to go!
6 votesWhat type of information were you thinking of using with a Zapier integration?
Or, could you just describe an example of how you’d like to use Poll Everywhere with Zapier?
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It would be amazing to be able to analyze (group or trend) the unstructured responses as well.
Grouping or trending of unstructured responses.
5 votesAre you referring to our Open Ended Poll Questions? If so, the only way we currently have a way to organize them is with our Word Cloud feature which will show which words had the highest frequency.
What kind of grouping or analysis are you thinking of?
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Data Visualization of Results
Enhance data visualization options for poll resutls
7 votesSure, what kind of data visualizations did you have in mind?
We currently have bar and column charts for multiple choice polls and then text wall, word cloud, cluster view and ticker for our open ended poll questions.
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Seek version for use with Keynote on an iPad
Need version to work directly with Keynote on an iPad
11 votesWe do have an integration with the PowerPoint app for iPad. And, that is available today (I have the link below for installing)
Unfortunately, we need Apple to make a few changes to their Keynote API before we can take that one on. In the meantime, i would recommend using a full desktop or laptop and our Mac Presenter App which does support Keynote (just not on an iPad).
https://store.office.com/poll-everywhere-WA104218073.aspx?assetid=WA104218073
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Improve PowerPoint Add-In stability
Improvements in PowerPoint Add-In stability
12 votesWe’re always trying to improve our add-ins stability. Is there any particular problems that you have experienced?
For example, is it difficult to install or the load times aren’t consistent?
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Report formatting
Report formatting needs significant improvement.
13 votesAbsolutely, is there anything specific with our reports that are causing you difficulties or frustration?
Is it more how we are displaying the results with our current 5 report types? Or, that you would like more flexibility in how we format and display the reports? Or, something else entirely!
We have made some recent changes with how our reports display open ended responses and we are in the process of updating how they display clickable image responses to be more readable and more comprehensive.
We’re definitely up to reviewing how reporting capabilities for improvement
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It would be great to have sudents sign on to their BlackBoard and leave feedback
Integrate with Blackboard
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Confusion meter
Polls where a student can 'retract' their answer. A useful idea for us is a ' I'm confused' meter during a complex class. Students click to indicate their confusion and a screen pops up on the presenter PC/account. When the student is satisfied/no longer confused they can click it 'off' and the presenter PC/screen is updated to reflect this.
5 votesCool idea! I might recommend hacking our multiple choice polls for this in the short run. Here’s something you could try
- add a “I’m confused” answer choice for a multiple choice poll
- all of our multiple choice polls have a Change Answer feature enabled by default
- students who are confused can initially post that response and the change their answer once they understand
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Report customisation
Ability to customise columns (and column formats) for exporting report data. For instance, I don't need identifier data as most of my respondents are anonymous, but I would like to have seconds-level resolution on when responses happened.
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