Ideas
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Help powerpoint learn to wait until your in-poll build is complete before auto-advancing the slide
When using AutoAdvance in a PowerPoint show, polls that build on-screen (like free text) get cut short. The auto advance timer ignores your on-screen animation and advances whether the poll is finished or not. This is not the case with native PowerPoint animations. There is a flag to show when the animation is complete and the Transition routine checks that flag before triggering the transition. It would be great if your add-in could also set/clear that same flag. Then the PPT would wait until the poll finishes loading before firing the slide transition. That would allow your polls to work…
1 voteUnfortunately the timer is tied to when a poll is activated. Once you present the poll, the timer will begin. We have no plans to separate the two. We’re doing this primarily to ensure that everyone is able to respond and to stay consistent about when the timer starts for all presenters. Sorry we can’t accommodate your use case.
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Customizable instructions (verbiage, not just colors.)
Allow people to tweak the way instructions are communicated.
4 votesThanks for your feedback! We recommend embedding the activity into your slide deck using our slideware apps. You can resize the activity and add custom instructions on the slide itself.
Learn more: https://www.polleverywhere.com/support/articles/power-users/resize-the-poll-pollev-presenters
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Expand 'Wait screen' across multiple slides to enable more event details to be shared
Having the option to make this a multi-tab or multi-slide holding page to enable Event planners to share more details of the event e.g. the venue, the dress code, the agenda. For a number of events, we work with an agency to produce a web-portal that enables delegates to register pre-event, and shares with them details of the venue, venue location and other key details about the event. If Poll Everywhere had a feature that enabled you to share more information on the Welcome page, (as well as a pre-event registration feature which I have suggested separately) it would eradicate…
6 votesYou can provide this information to attendees by customizing the wait screen with our Branded response page feature. We don’t intend to expand this to be multi-page because we want to keep things simple and make sure it works on small mobile devices.
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RAFFLE (for collecting attendance data)
Students submit their name (and possibly major and email address as desired for data collection). Then a randomizer selects one entry as the raffle prize winner.
6 votesThere’s a couple of ways to do this currently:
1. Create a Multiple choice activity, set it to require registered participants only, and after you collect responses, run the Participant response history report and export to Excel to choose a winner randomly.
2. If you don’t have a plan that supports registered participants, create an Open-ended activity asking for their names. After you collect responses, run the Participant response history report and export to Excel to choose a winner randomly.
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Place a hyperlink in the question to direct students to a webpage before responding.
It would be nice to be able to link text to an outside webpage for students to be directed to before they respond to the question. Keeps students from wandering or fumbling with a long url.
1 voteUnfortunately, we are unable to link out to external websites for security purposes. It is something that we’d love to do and I certainly understand the draw.
While 99% of the time people presenting polls have nothing but good intentions, we need to protect all participants by assuring that any link/URL posted on a Poll Everywhere poll is a safe, secure link that we own.
Thank you for the feature request! Sorry that we aren’t able to help out more for this. My best recommendation is to post the link the title or something and let the students copy/paste
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Include ability to use hyperlinked items in poll questions.
I was trying to create a poll for a presentation where attendees would evaluate the veracity of a variety of news articles. I wanted to include a link to an article as a question, where the user could click the link, read the article and then go back to the poll to answer the question. However, Poll Everywhere does not have the ability to use a linked item and I think it should.
1 voteUnfortunately, we cannot have hyperlinks on our poll questions to pages outside of our application for security purposes. It is one of those things where 99.9% of the time everyone means well and it’s just a link to a news article like you suggest. But, allowing a hyperlink also allows bad actors to do phishing attacks and send their audience to a website that could be collecting password/email or other data and we become liable for that.
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convert from one type of poll to another, e.g. multiple choice to competitions. We would like to do this by using an existing poll and conve
convert from one type of poll to another, e.g. multiple choice to competitions. We would like to do this by using an existing poll and converting from one type to another
42 votesThanks for your feedback! You’re not alone in asking for this functionality. However, we don’t have any plans on allowing converting between different activity types, mostly due to data integrity concerns.
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Change or Allow Administrators to Customize the Wording of the Texbox for Q&A (So it Doesn't Say Response)
Right now the default message for the Q&A textbox says "Enter a response". The wording above also says "You have not responded." This wording is confusing, we want people to enter a question (not a response.) Please change the wording or allow the administrator to customize the wording
1 voteUnfortunately, we just cannot be sure if that will be true for most of our customers. Some will be using it for questions others for comments or replies. Our goal was to find a more generic term that will work for everyone.
That said, we can do some customization options for individual clients as part of our Custom Branding package for our enterprise clients. If you are interested, please contact sales@polleverywhere.com and we can get you set up with a quote for customizing anything on the response page.
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Custom Text Messages
Would love to be able to customize the initial text message that participants receive. We’re finding that our users are confused with the message they receive since it doesn’t provide them with an action to take. The only action it provides is what to do when they're done (reply LEAVE). It just seems odd to be able to customize the reply message, but not the initial one.
1 voteWell, unfortunately we have to send that text message for legal reasons. It’s part of the Mobile Marketing Association Best Practices which necessitates that we inform anyone using us clearly the name of the company responsible for the message and clear instructions for how to prevent more messages (reply LEAVE).
So, there’s not a whole lot we can do until some of the rules/laws change. Sorry for the bad news, but that’s an excellent question and we appreciate the feedback!
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Segmentation reports
Up until recently ( last used Dec 2017) I was able to do poll by poll segmentation reports. I have been told by your support team that this is no longer supported as you have changed to only support a graded answer system. Unfortunately unless I am planning on running a pub quiz type setup this isn’t very helpful in a commercial/conference environment. Segmentation data, or demographics as we know it, can be a really important factor in using polling. Using the polls to breakdown where people are from, what kind of organisation they work for or what size of…
9 votesLong-term, we hope to revamp the Segmentation feature entirely. This work would also include creating a new report type for segmentation. However, until then, we don’t have any plans to expand this feature or bring it back because of lack of customer interest.
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Do not randomize a ranked poll
Do not randomize a ranked poll
I would like to create a poll where an initial ranking is given, so that the participants can change it instead of starting from scratch.
Especially with a large set of answer options (around 20) a sensible starting point makes things easier.So it would be helpful if a ranking poll could be configured so that it does not randomize the items.
2 votesWell, I can certainly understand your situation. That makes a lot of sense for you. Unfortunately, we very hesitant to add the complexity handle randomized and not. We wanted to prevent biasing the responses to any particular order when we built the feature.
And, we’re worried about the cost to maintain both. My only suggestion for you would be to try our Q&A poll. You could seed some responses to this poll in the order that you want and then let your audience up or downvote the replies. It’s not exact either, but it is often easier when you are dealing with a large set or replies like you are.
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API Call for tabulated results
The API call "/results" returns all individual responses. It would be useful to have an API call to return tabulated results for multiple choice polls. Usually an vote count or percentage is needed and not all responses.
1 voteWe actually used to offer a /results/table option however it was so rarely used we ultimately deprecated it a few months back. We’re reluctant to add something like that back in the near future.
Sorry for the trouble caused for you, but let us know if there’s anything else you have for us.
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Ask participants to enter a screen name before they respond to a poll via text
Currently, this feature is only available through web responses. It should be an option for text responses as well.
1 voteWe discussed this a lot when we first released the Screen Name feature a few months ago.
Ultimately, we were (and still are) concerned that adding the extra time it would take for the participants to submit their screename, receive confirmation, and then reply to the actual question could take too much time and cause participants to miss the question entirely. In part because sending the confirmation over SMS can take 10+ seconds depending on their cell connection.
We didn’t want to take the risk. Above all, we want to make sure that the participants are able to quickly reply to poll questions and have their responses seen, heard and recorded.
Thanks for the suggestion though!
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Web embedded polling widget should have the option to not show percentages when vote is cast or dynamically update as other votes are cast
Web embedded polling widget should have the option to not show percentages when vote is cast or dynamically update as other votes are cast
1 voteWell, unfortunately our Web Voting Widget isn’t getting as much use as it used to and we aren’t planning on adding more functionality to it. If you do not want to display the results → I recommend using an iFrame to embed the shareable response link. That link is available on the same /embed page that you found the widget.
If you have any trouble getting an iFrame set up, please feel free to reach out to our Support Team at support@polleverywhere.com
We’re happy to help you out.
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The Third-Party Assurance for International Polling
Since, many are left uncertain of the trustworthiness and validity of government polling, this polling system would—hopefully, and soon—be secure and credible enough from breaches, or tampering.
The single-vote, identification system, with a brief description (or a list of general information of the authenticated voter)—could help; along with creating an open forum, and categories with sub-categories for public voting of self-prioritizing topics/subjects/concerns (based on quantitative value) that the people would like to address. There could be a top 10, 20, 30, list column on the side-panel, and maybe an option for a small chatroom with a user-appropriate language-filter integrated for…
3 votesUnfortunately, we are mainly focused on supporting presentations for universities and corporate, not directly for public office or the political domain.
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A new real-time voting system for the people—to reach our elected representatives when we need an immediate consensus with political topics.
I believe that the poll activity should be categorized into at least three groups within different domains. One for students and teachers, one for businesses and presenters, and also those who would like to vote on an international scale. So you have a public and private voting system. The private domain could have the individual’s name, but the public can permit the name of validated organizations, and also include the feature of searching for public polls to vote upon to network entire communities, organizations, and nations. This polling system has the potential to integrate a wider spectrum of audiences and…
3 votesUnfortunately, we are mainly focused on supporting presentations for universities and corporate, not directly for public office or the political domain.
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Free to anyone
You should make it free so you can get more people here.
4 votesUnfortunately, we do need to continue to charge for our service. The only way we could make the product more free would be to turn it into selling people’s data and ad advertisements which is not the type of company we want to run.
That said, we do have a Free version of our product that will let you create as many questions as you like and receive up to 25 responses per question. It’s great for a smaller audiences
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music
add music or songs while participants making their choice
1 voteThis has come up a few times in the past and we definitely understand the desire to have something to fill up the time it takes for the participants to reply. But, we just cannot commit to the cost it takes to support audio. There’s a lot of unknowns there and we do not want to take the blame if the audio is screeching load, starts skipping, or any of the other things that can happen with audio.
We recommend just setting up a sound bite you can manually control. But, we’ll let you know if we change our minds!
Thanks for the suggestion
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Ability to Modify Corner Colors in LiveSlides
It would be really great if you could change the colors of the three boxes in all four corners of the LiveSlides placeholder images. That would give corporate PPT users the ability to match their corporate branding color requirements. Huge user benefit.
1 voteUnfortunately, we actually use those colors to help determine where to display the poll with our PowerPoint integration for Mac. So, we really do need the colors of those 4 squares set.
That said, we do have some changes coming out in a month or two (hopefully sometime in November) that will make those boxes much less intrusive. They will be smaller and will be grey and black instead of the blues they are today. Hopefully, this will solve the most intrusive issues for the placeholder images.
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Change wording from anonymous to confidential
Requesting feature on behalf of Alex Hill (akhill@uw.edu). He shared that anonymous isn't really the correct terminology since once a poll is set to "make responses anonymous," we keep a record of the responses in our database. The wording should be changed to confidential instead.
1 voteWell, our anonymous functionality is pretty anonymous. It’s completely anonymous for the presenter or the person who created the poll and we will not give out your information even when asked as per our terms of service.
Furthermore, even if you are a fully registered participant → anonymous responses are stored differently in our database, specifically they are not directly tied to your participant record. So, while one of our engineers could tie a response back to a registered participant or phone number (if you replied by text message) this is only possible for 90 days. And, it takes a bit off effort on our side. So, even I or one of our customer support representatives would not be able to identify you.
Basically, we would only go through the effort of these database queries if the police requests us to.
I agree that “confidential” is slightly more accurate. Those…
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