Educators' Ideas
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Poll Everywhere does not use an RSS feed in our application. We have been worried about ways for bad actors to use an RSS feed to cheat on graded poll questions.
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Making keyboard shortcuts available in place of clickable buttons on powerpoint (Mac) would be great.
I am having difficulty clicking the buttons for locking, making stats available, showing correct answers, etc. because this has to be done by clicking the small buttons on the screen. Sometimes, the pointer/arrow disappears (even when I select "arrow as pointer" and avoid the automatic option, which makes the cursor disappear).
1 voteUnfortunately, we really do not want to try and override the many shortcuts that PowerPoint has already. It is just a dangerous and risky option for us. The last thing we want is to ruin a presentation.
The only other suggestion I have is that you could try our mobile application to control the visual settings. If you download our mobile app (for Android or iOS) you can log in with your Poll Everywhere account → select the title of your poll questions → and you can control showing correctness, show/hiding results, and some other options.
For details on our mobile app: https://www.polleverywhere.com/guides/presenter/tips-and-tricks#mobile-polling
I hope this helps!
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Seat map response view
Seat map displaying responses. This would allow tutors/presenters to engage with participants through a seat map view individual responses.
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Offer consulting services to schools and instructors
I have used Poll Everywhere in my classroom and am very enthused to help other instructors learn how to take advantage of this breakthrough technology. Do you have a program for offering consulting services to schools and instructors? I would love to be part of it!
Dr. Tom Hoverman
3 votesWe do not currently have any program for offering consulting services to schools or instructors. We had a few discussions and meetings about this or other “ambassador” type programs and at least for now – we are not planning no heading in that direction.
While there is a lot of flexibility and ways to set up Poll Everywhere that would benefit from some consulting or training programs – our goal is to really be simple enough that it is not necessary for the vast majority of our customers. We should “just work” and we are always striving to live up to that standard.
We’ll definitely update this idea if we start to reconsider in the future.
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schedule a meeting like in Doodle
schedule an event much like Doodle.
4 votesWell, I think it’s best that we stick at what we’re good at – live audience response. Scheduling meetings would be a bit of a switch for us and there are a lot of companies (like Doodle) who do a really great job of this already
Thanks for the idea though!
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selfie
allow people to send selfies to the screen
3 votesHa, you know we always like to discuss this option around the office too! I think it’d be a lot of fun to allow participants to send pictures/photos as a response.
Unfortunately, there are always going to be a certain subset of folks who will inevitably send inappropriate photos and that is just not a reputation we want to have! I can only imagine the complaints…maybe some day. But, not for a while.
Keep the suggestions coming though!
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QR code for participants
To join a poll, generate a QR code for participants to scan.
7 votesWe’ve had requests in the past for this feature. We think its’ a great idea, but haven’t built it in simply because a solution already exists!
There are several sites out there that can make a QR code out of a url which would allow you to copy the pollev response page and turn it into a QR Code. Here’s one you can try: http://qrcode.kaywa.com/
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Create text notification
Have the ability to create a post and then "send" it to my students phone through an alert or some manner, like remind.com allows me to interact securely without giving out or receiving personal cell numbers. Avoids any false accusations of impropriety.
6 votesThanks for the input! We actually do have this this technology, but it’s not advertised on our website. This technology is actually pretty costly for us and has a lot of security and privacy concerns – which is why we currently are unable to allow it for Individual Teacher plans.
Sorry! Using web surveys could be a equivalent alternative. Check them out! http://polleverywhere.uservoice.com/knowledgebase/articles/160748-grouping-polls-and-distributing-a-multi-poll-sur
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Depend less on integrating with powerpoint - just have other options for viewing questions.
Options that work offline, that don't need to be pushed live.
5 votesWe are a web service. It’s everything we do. We integrate with PowerPoint, Keynote, Google Slides, and directly from most every web browser under the sun. And, unlike most of our newer competitors we allow text message responses.
But, for now you’ve got to have the web for us to work. If WiFi or internet options are rough for you we recommend using the Text Message Response Method to allow people to respond and to tether or use your mobile phone as a WiFi hotspot for your presentation.
You can read more about how to respond by text message here: https://www.polleverywhere.com/guide#keywords_the_details
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QR Codes
Instead of having students type the long PollEv.com/...... website in order to respond, automatically create a QR code that they can scan to access the poll.
4 votesWe’ve had requests in the past for this feature. We think its’ a great idea, but haven’t built it in simply because a solution already exists!
There are several sites out there that can make a QR code out of a url. Here’s one you can try: http://qrcode.kaywa.com
Just go there and use the PollEv web response page for your account as the URL. Contact Support@PollEv.com if you have any trouble!
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Increase free responses
Increase number of respondents for free service to 50.
9 votesOur Higher-Ed and K-12 Free Plans will both come with up to 40 responses per poll question. We also offer a Classroom-Size Promise for all K12 educators where we will increase the size of our K-12 Free Plan to the largest class roster that they teach.
You can sign up for these education plans on or education plans page
For K-12: https://www.polleverywhere.com/plans/k-12
For Higher-Ed: https://www.polleverywhere.com/plans/higher-ed
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Categories
Just started using this and noticed that you do not have under subjects anything for foreign language / world language. Would love to see new section!
4 votesI assume you are referring to our Boundless Integration where we have some pre-built polls created by Boundless. Unfortunately, this has been deprecated and our partnership with Boundless is coming to a close. They are moving in another direction and aren’t going to share their question catalog with ARS folks like us.
If you are searching for some poll ideas, I recommend checking out polleverywhere.com/polls and searching for publicly shared polls made by some of our other educators
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SlideShark Integration for iPad
integrate with slideshark so that it can be used on ipad.
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Logins and the App
The "sign in" on the app is quite irritating. It takes up a fair bit of the screen, cannot be closed or shrunk, and isn't always needed.
It would also be great, if the phone didn't log out the user when a new network is connected to, or reconnected. I use this in school, with a class set of phones. Each student always gets the same phone, so either I have them log in (and they have to keep doing that) or I'd rather not have them log in, and I can view their response history on the device.
2 votesI’m going to decline for now, but we are open for argument as always.
There’s just so many k12 and Higher-Ed educations who will have students with their own phones/devices and perhaps multiple devices that we do not want to remove the Sign In or Log In option from the app.
At request, we can remove the nagger at the bottom of the phone which prompts students to log in. Please give us an email to support@PollEverywhere.com if you’re interested. You can even ask for me (Brian) and I’ll help you out.
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Dual paired comparison
Dual pair comparison. Where a list of items is randomly paired and people select which one is most important. At the end the items are shown in priority order.
4 votesWell, I do not think this one is on our current roadmap. We try to keep new poll types to a relatively low number to keep quality up and bloat down.
I do recommend trying our Ranking Poll feature though! It will allow your audience to drag/drop answer choices to a particular order and submit them. There is no random pairing, but we think it’s pretty cool.
For more info on ranking polls, check out some of our blog post on it:
http://www.polleverywhere.com/blog/new-features-ranking-polls-account-poll-template-grade-responses/ -
Filter Profane words in other languages.
I love that you filter profane words. I work with teachers and the suggestion was to filter words in other languages as well.
4 votesAhh, the profanity filter. We always have fun trying to come up with what to block, but there’s just no accounting for the creativity and many languages of students. We cannot keep up with the youth!
I always recommend using our Moderation Feature if you are concerned about this. This will allow the teacher to reject/approve any responses that are sent in before being displayed. You can read about how here: https://www.polleverywhere.com/guide#moderation
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logic
have intuitive logic - if someone answers a question a certain way, they get a different next question from someone else. or if someone selects "other" in multiple choice they can input what that means.
2 votesYeah, adding Branching Surveys or branching logic to determine the next question is very very cool. Unfortunately, it’s also pretty tough for us to do. We really try to focus on live interaction within that moment and branching surveys really goes in a different direction.
We’ve had a few ideas for something similar where depending on which answer choice in a presentation gets the most responses > a certain question comes next. But, for the time being I would just say this sort of logic is out of our current roadmap. Sorry for the bad news!
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Go back to flash and have a total response count
We have been an on and off user of poll everywhere for several years now. This weekend at a conference I wasn't as pleased with some of the new features.
I did not like the idea of the embedded PowerPoint download not using Flash. I had to download a utility that took several minutes to install. This is not convenient for us. We sometimes do not know what computer the poll will be ran from ahead of time. We liked the flash plug-in better.
We did not have an indication of total "votes" cast. It had a total for each…
1 voteUnfortunately, the embedded flash controls in PowerPoint behave unreliably (crash in presentation, lose connections and don’t update live, older versions of PowerPoint pop-up an alert on every slide with an embedded chart, etc.).
We had to make the tough decision to move away from Flash for the above reasons. The PowerPoint plug-in is software we create, and we have much more control over the reliability and performance.
More information can also be found here: http://www.polleverywhere.com/blog/html5-powerpoint-plugin-charts/
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Put the poll count UNDER the background
The poll count is sometimes not readable because it's the same color as the background/photo of the poll. I would suggest you put it underneath so it is more clearly readable.
1 voteHi David,
Thanks for using Poll Everywhere and offering some feedback!
We took a different stab at solving this issue. Can you try it yourself and let us know if you think it could be improved?
We made it so that the Total Results is the same color as the Axis Labels. You can change the color of both of these in the Visual Settings pane, Chart tab and towards the bottom.
http://polleverywhere.uservoice.com/knowledgebase/articles/160737-visual-settings
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iMessage integration.
Any thoughts of integrating iMessage into the data collection the same way text messaging works? For example instead of texting to 41411 you could iMessage to poll@polleverywhere.com with a keyword or number?
I think this could become very valuable especially in the classroom environment with iPads.
Thanks
1 voteHi Clint,
Thanks for your interest in Poll Everywhere and feedback!
We’ve considered doing something like this, but we actually think it’ll complicate things when there’s an easier method. If students can send iMessages, they have an internet connection, which means that they can visit pollev.com/reserve pages to vote on poll questions.
Hope that clarifies things!
