Ideas
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PowerPoint Liveslides
Please bring back the function of inserting live websites directly into PowerPoint with Poll Everywhere. While I love the functionality of the activities in Poll Everywhere, the removal of this functionality is a major loss in the application's overall functionality.
1 voteThank you for your feedback. Yes, we liked the ease of inserting websites into slides via our Liveslides product as well! We decided to sunset this feature for two reasons:
The first and most important is that enabling unchecked website addresses to load in a PowerPoint slide poses security risks, which have increased since we originally released Liveslides.
Second, Microsoft now supports this functionality with its free Web Viewer app. Unfortunately, when considering the security risk and redundancy with Microsoft's own app, we decided to sunset this functionality.
Again, thank you for providing this feedback. If you have any additional questions or feedback, please do not hesitate to contact us.
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Automatic Poll deactivation in PPT presenter mode
Polls used to automatically deactivate when advancing to the next slide in powerpoint presenter mode. That functionality no longer exists. I request that it somehow be made available.
1 voteThank you for your feedback! Activities are only deactivated when you exist fullscreen mode from the browser. In PowerPoint, the functionality hasn't been changed — the activity remains activated until the next one is presented.
Learn more about adjusting the amount of time your activity remains activated here: https://support.polleverywhere.com/hc/en-us/articles/1260801546570-Activation-time
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Be able to 'Clear Responses' from PowerPoint without having to make an archive
In PowerPoint using the PollEV ribbon there is a handy Clear responses button, ideal for clearing data following trials of a presentation ready for delivery. But for some reason, it makes you save a freaking archive of your nonsense test responses. There should be an option here to 'Clear without creating archive'.
1 voteThank you for your suggestion and apologies for the inconvenience! The reason we save cleared responses in archives is for easy retrieval later on in reporting. You can delete archived runs in the Response history tab of your activity.
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Revert back to unrestricted stem length and font size
I am a longtime PollEverywhere user with a large collection of polls I’ve created over many years. I am upset that you decided some time ago to limit the number of characters in the stem of a multiple-choice question as well as the choice of only 3 font sizes in place of the previous slider bar that offered a full range of sizes that could be customized to be optimal.
Now, whenever I need to slightly modify the stem of a previously created poll that contains more than the arbitrary reduced number of characters, I find that I cannot do…1 voteHi there, unfortunately there are space limitations when displaying an activity on a screen. We made those changes several years ago so that all the information on the screen was accessible. Thanks for understanding!
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Allow disabling downvotes on free K-12 accounts
Not being able to disable downvoting responses on the free version of K-12 education accounts prevents teachers from adequately moderating responses. I love the idea of using this type of response, but I don't use it with my students due to the possibility of abusing the downvoting feature. It is irresponsible to make this a premium-only feature for the education accounts.
1 voteHello and thank you for your feedback! I completely understand how this feature is helpful in the classroom. Unfortunately we do not have it in our Product Roadmap to add this feature to the Intro plan at this time. We appreciate you submitting this feedback and if there is anything else we can do to help do not hesitate to reach out to our Support Team at support@polleverywhere.com.
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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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Undo button.
Please have an undo button so you can reverse delete actions.
Regards,
Shannon Hogan1 voteSorry that it’s been a while Shannon but, may I ask – what kind of actions are you thinking of? Most of the settings we have are pretty quickly reversible and are not permanent (except the Delete Poll action). Is there anything in particular that you’re having trouble with? Feel free to email us at support@polleverywhere.com if you have any trouble!
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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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register/certify user via text message
It would be great if users could register or confirm their identity via text message.
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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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Tick boxes for availability charts.
Make tick boxes for availability charts.
1 voteWe agree that it would be very cool to do this but there are just so many other availability and calendar type applications that it’s tough for us to compete with people who do this as their whole business like calendly.com
If you want to use our service to help determine availability or meeting times, I recommend using our Clickable Image poll to do this. Basically, you can load an image that includes a few different dates/times or is a full weekly calendar itself. Your audience than then load the page and drop a pin to display which times will work for them.
You can also do the same thing with a multiple choice poll if you have a few discrete/specific times in mind. We do this ourselves here in the office to schedule happy hours
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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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Have a QR code for each poll,
In addition to poll web link, add a QR code somewhere on the poll page. In this case the respondents can choose to directly scan the QR code and go to the poll instead of typing in the web address themselves. A QR code for downloading the poll everywhere app may be added as well, for promoting purpose of course.
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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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1 vote
Thanks for the feedback!
I understand the desire for this and it would be really convenient, however this is something that we just cannot do. Overriding the standard internet browser or slideware behavior and shortcuts is really dangerous and can cause a lot of bugs, as well as hurting our accessibility standards.
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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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