Automatic DEactivation of final poll question on PowerPoint slide advance, and greater flexibility for automatic deactivation
It would be extremely helpful if there were an option to deactivate a poll question upon advancing to the next non-poll slide in a PowerPoint presentation, without exiting presenter mode. (Currently a poll only deactivates if the next slide is also a poll; that means the final poll is left active if no intentional action is taken.) That way I wouldn't have to remember to manually lock the last poll before moving onto the next (non-poll) slide of my PowerPoint, thus reducing the number of moving parts I have to think about when teaching/presenting. It's an entirely common-sense suggestion, and I'm not sure why it was rejected the previous time someone suggested it. (https://polleverywhere.uservoice.com/forums/151441-ideas/suggestions/44914438-automatic-poll-deactivation-in-ppt-presenter-mode)
In her answer to that previous post, Sara pointed to the article on activation time, but the minimum three-hour span for automatic deactivation is singularly unhelpful in a class that only lasts for an hour. PE should at least let the length of time before automatic deactivation be manually entered, in minutes as well as hours.
(I should also note that I'm not always using the timer feature, to fend off that "answer".)
Darcy Krasne
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Thank you for your feedback! We do have automatic deactivation in our product roadmap but since it will require a larger update we don't have any kind of timeline at the moment. Thank you again for your submission!
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Chris Thawley
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I agree that this is a really important option to have, especially for those of each teaching multiple sections of a course. While I think that the proposed suggestion is best (allowing an option for automatic deactivation), an option that would still help using existing functionality is to give an option for a much shorter time (like 5 min) in the automatic deactivation drop down. Having 3 hrs as a minimum really doesn't help when teaching multiple classes/day.
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Addendum: Exiting PowerPoint presenter mode doesn't actually seem to deactivate a poll, either. Given that all the documentation claims it does, this appears to be a bug.