Ideas
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Track time to submit a response
It would be great to have a feature to measure how long it takes for someone to submit a response to a poll question. We are thinking of it in the context of a clickable image poll where we would ask the participant to find something in the image and see how long it takes them to do so.
6 votesThat could be cool and an interesting piece of data for folks. I’m not sure how many people would really be interested though.
Do you think it would work if we only displayed this on the CSV (Excel) download our reports? We have limited space available on the web view and I don’t think we can fit this without sacrificing a lot.
Otherwise, the closest thing we can easily track is the amount of time that has elapsed since the poll was made active until the response was received. This won’t always be accurate because a presenter could activate/deactivate and re-activate a single poll question during a presentation but should generally be accurate.
Would that be enough for y’all?
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Keynote for iOS Integration
I'm increasingly doing presentations in keynote on my iPhone with a HDMI output. I'd really like to be able to use poll everywhere in this setup. Shame it doesn't seem possible.
6 votesWell, unfortunately Apple just doesn’t really make this possible for us right now. We are able to integrate with the PowerPoint iOS app by using the Office 365 Store which is a built-in app store for PowerPoint, however Apple’s Keynote does not have a similar store.
Until they release something like that or offer a public API we can build an integration off of, it just is not feasible for us. We’ll jump on the train once it’s possible.
In the meantime, I would recommend either presenting with our Mac App with Keynote on your macbook, or you can use our Office 365 integration on your iPhone
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Display multiple results simultaneously
It would be nice for users to view results from multiple questions simultaneously as they are being voted.
For instance, users would see multiple results tallied as users are inputting data.
6 votesThis is currently possible to do if you have the correct setup. It’s a little complicated though. Here’s what I would recommend if you’re interested:
- create a Survey. A survey will let your audience respond to multiple poll questions on their own time at your pollev.com/username page. For details: https://blog.polleverywhere.com/create-first-poll-everywhere-survey/
- then you can use our Live Response Link to show the chart visualization for each individual poll question in the survey. You can find this link by
clicking on the title of the poll question → click “Present” tab on the top right → select Share → then copy the Live Results Link.- you will need to have separate browser windows or monitors to display all of these questions at once. And, there is no way to display multiple questions with our PowerPoint integration (it will cause a conflict).
All of those polls will automatically update as…
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Polls embedded in PowerPoint should save final results
When I have multiple polls in PowerPoint, after the presentation is done, the results of the last active poll are saved on a slide - because that poll is still considered active. I'd like all the results collected during the presentation to be saved on the slide for each poll so that when I distribute the presentation the static results are show. Simply doing whatever you do with the active poll when the presentation is closed should be applied to the inactive polls too.
6 votesThanks for the feedback!
We do have a way to insert a screenshot with the results into PowerPoint. That would be my recommendation for right now. The tricky part for us is that many presenters like to reuse their decks and they want to have the poll slides always be empty and not show results. It’s a tough tradeoff for us.
But, here’s how you can insert screenshots with the results without leaving PowerPoint for Windows
1. in PowerPoint, click on the Poll Everywhere tab in the upper right
2. then click the arrow icon at the bottom of the Insert button
3. select Screenshot
4. click the checkbox for the polls you want to get screenshots for
5. then click Insert ScreenshotThat will insert separate powerpoint slides with screenshots for the selected polls. You may then move those to the desired spot in your deck before sharing.
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Restrict ability to respond to polls based on the group assignments
I teach several sections of the same class, and would find it helpful not to have to replicate polls for each of the sections. I have the ability to group the students based on sections, so is there a way to assign a poll to a specific group (instead of having to create new polls and deactive old polls)?
6 votesThank you for your suggestion! We’ll look into building the ability to assign activities per participant group as we see more customer interest.
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Don't have the Mac App disappear all the time.
I recently submitted a support request to help with the fact that my PollEverywhere App (on Mac) kept disappearing every time I clicked on another program (like PowerPoint). As this product is designed to be used with PPT, I assume you know that people will have both apps open at the same time and want to go back and forth between the two. It is product-breakingly bad that the app disappears... I cannot look at my questions and my slides at the same time. I cannot easily get back to my questions (I have to re-open the app at the…
6 votesHello and thank you for providing this feedback! I have brought this back to our team for their review. In the meantime, if you have any additional questions or need any help, please do not hesitate to reach out. Thank you!
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Timer is hidden behind Google Slides toolbar
When using the Poll Everywhere extension within presentation mode of Google Slides, the timer is actually hidden behind the Google Slides toolbar in the lower left corner of the screen. When you attempt to manipulate the timer, you cannot make any changes to it because the Google Slides toolbar covers it every time the cursor gets near the timer. If there were a setting to select the position of the timer or if it could freely be moved, that would solve the problem.
6 votesHi Heather,
I’m sorry about the trouble with our Google Slides integration. Thank you for bringing this up to us. This looks like a bug on our end. We should have a fix for this with our next update to our Chrome Extension for Google Slides.
We’ll send you an email when that is coming out.
Thanks for bringing this up!
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Weighted Poll
We want to present 10 ideas and have the participants rank them in order of importance. When the participants finish ranking them they will be weighted by order i.e. my first choice is worth 10 points, my second choice is worth 9 points and so on.
This will so a true ranking poll of what my participants believe to be most to least imporatant
5 votesWell, we do not have a way to do this right now out of the box, but there are a few workarounds.
The first is that you can use our Ranking Poll which allows folks to drag/drop the answer choices to their selected rank order. This will apply the set number of “points” on the backend depending on the number of answer choices. So, if you have 5 answer choices > then when someone ranks one option first > it gets 5 points > 2nd place gets 4 points and so on…
- You can see more details for how this works here: https://polleverywhere.uservoice.com/knowledgebase/articles/612507Another option is to use our Multiple Choice Polls to get the same results. You can either have 10 separate multiple choice polls where you can ask them to assign 1-10 points to each of your choices. Or, you can have a single poll question and…
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Restricted IP Address -- Taking Attendence
For using polls to take attendance, it will be great if we can add some restrictions to where they the participants located. So the users most come from certain URL to take the poll.
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Randomize questions
I need to be able to randomize questions, in order to prevent biased/ unconsious choices. Like Kahoot offers
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Simultaneous live polls or at least copy polls between accounts
My project team has multiple accounts because we sometimes need to have multiple live polls happening simultaneously, and PollEv doesn't support this from one account. Problem is that the polls are now located in multiple places making management of the polls and data tedious, and there isn't a way to duplicate polls from one account to another. There's got to be a better way.
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Cache Polls, Send Eventually
The wifi at my university is pretty terrible. However, my professor insists on using poll everywhere for quizzes everyday. Often, I miss a poll question simply because my computer or my phone cannot connect to the internet. I can't send via text because I don't have service. It would be nice if I could send the poll whenever I got wifi. Of course, this will may require a complete rewrite of your backend because a poll completely closes when the instructor decides to. And the code doesn't work afterwards. But maybe if the time the response was cached is before…
5 votesInteresting idea! And definitely worth some discussion. We’ll review this at our next planning meeting.
Thanks for sharing!
Steve
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Give participant feedback on the correctness of their answer
Would like for my students to receive a message about whether or not their response was correct for graded responses.
5 votesAll of our paid education plans come with a feature called Custom Reply Message. This can be used to send your students an automatic message after they’ve submitted their response. It won’t automatically determine if they chose the correct answer, but you can set it up like this:
“You chose choice The correct answer was A”
Do you think this would work for you?
Other than that, students can check their Response History after class to review questions they’ve responded to and that will tell them of there correctness. Just send them to polleverywhere.com/my/results
More details on custom reply messages here:
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Rank by numbers
Have the ability to rank poll by numbers instead of drag and drop
5 votesAre you thinking about entering allowing the participants to distribute say 10 or 100 “votes” amongst a few different answer choices as free response? Or, maybe just typing in 1st, 2nd, 3rd… instead of drag/drop?
There are a lot of different ways to do a ranking poll. We have a few ideas for how to implement each type, so it’d be great to get an idea of what you are interested in.
Thanks for the feedback!
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I would like to suggest a way to make the poll when inserted into a Power Point transparent so you can still see the Power Point background.
I would like to suggest a way to make the poll when inserted into a Power Point transparent so you can still see the Power Point background.
5 votesI’m not sure if this will be possible for how we currently implement our powerpoint integration. We currently use some parts of that image to determine the size and placement of our poll on the slide.
May I ask, why do you want your audience to see the whole background? If it is to match your branding and slide template > would it work if we are able to match your slide template and set that as the background for our poll?
Otherwise, if you are trying to show an image or something else on the same slide as our poll > you can resize the placeholder image to show part of the slide
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Export to SPSS
Add the option to export all of the response data to .sav format for further analysis in SPSS.
5 votesInteresting! We do currently have the ability to export to CSV. I’ll check with the team to see what this might take.
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Hello, it would be convenient if members of a user group could see each others participant groups and that an administrator could set up and
Hello, it would be convenient if members of a user group could see each others participant groups and that an administrator could set up and enroll participants in the group of other users
5 votesInteresting idea, I can understand the desire of admins being able to setup or maintain participant groups. Right now, administrators may invite/add participants to an account. And, those participants (students) could then reply to the polls of any presenter on the account as a registered participant. But, Participant Groups are all based on the specific user or presenter.
It’s certainly possible for us to make some architectural changes around how we store participant groups and the permissions around them, but unfortunately it’s not an easy or quick project. I don’t expect us to create this in the short term unless there’s a lot of interest from the community.
Thanks for the suggestion though! We appreciate it and will definitely take it under consideration
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Report and archived run changes
Can you please consider adding the functionality to run reports on multiple runs, AND to tease out data from one archived run that should have been split into two?
5 votesThanks for the suggestion. We’ll consider adding this to our roadmap in the future.
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Duplicate activity from edit page (currently only available in activity list)
As far as I can tell you are only able to duplicate an activity from the main groups and activities list (available when you click POLLS from the main menu). It would be helpful if you were able to duplicate an activity from the open activity page (where you save the activity). Example, for an election, you run the activity full screen and show results, now you have to remove some of the options and run it again (and again, and again until there is a winner). It is easier to track the order of polls taken by duplicating the…
5 votesThanks for your suggestion! We’ll look into this as it garners more interest.
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Increase font size range on word clouds
The current appearance seems to have 4 different font sizes in the word cloud. When an idea has 30 matches and others are only at 4 or 5, a MUCH larger font size would better represent that, contrasting the smaller ones. Even a range of 8 sizes would be a significant improvement to determine popularity in a given data set. Ideally I would like a range of 12 or more.
5 votesThank you for your suggestion! We will look into it as we see more customer interest.
