Educators' Ideas
155 results found
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Darken Screen After Responding
Redesign the user screen so that answers aren’t displayed more than a few seconds, and in a small box on computers. Our lecturers ask students to poll in with their individual response, then discuss with a neighbor and poll in again. With the large computer screens displaying student answers, there is no need for discussion as students will just look off of their neighbor's screen. This is a negative for our classes and it changes the way our lecturers teach, and gives cause to minimize the use of polling.
9 votesThat’s an interesting use case. I can understand why this would be helpful in a “lab” type setting. The way you describe it, to have the screen darken after a few seconds, would go against our accessibility guidelines for ADA compliance. We might be able to get by this with an “opt-in” feature that you could select. I would need to ask our design team if they have any ideas
One thing, have you tried our multi-page survey features at all? It’s designed for a more asynchronous teaching style to let students answer questions at their own pace. However, it does let them answer a question > click Next > and this takes them to the next poll question in the survey. At this point the students could discuss in pairs/groups about the question they just answered and then make adjustments/comments in a followup question. You can see a bit…
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Integrate with webinar services
Easy integration with webinar services. Maybe code or the like.
9 votesWhat sort of integration are you thinking of? I know some webinar services have some basic multiple choice polling where you can ask the attendees a quick multiple choice question within the webinar app. Are you thinking of something similar with Poll Everywhere?
Or, something entirely different! Let us know
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Report customisation
Ability to customise columns (and column formats) for exporting report data. For instance, I don't need identifier data as most of my respondents are anonymous, but I would like to have seconds-level resolution on when responses happened.
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Upgrade inhibits continuity of presentation
It was much easier to integrate the poll into PPT before your upgrade. I cannot download the program on classroom computers, so there is a break in continuity, because I have to change to the web instead of staying in PPT. I believe it was better before the upgrade.
9 votesI believe you are referring to our old Flash PowerPoint integration where you did not need to download or install a program on the presentation computer. This method had some serious security and reliability concerns for us and Flash in general has become less and less supported by all of our providers as a result.
This is why we’ve switched to the much more reliable and secure HTML5 version of our PowerPoint integration.
If you have any trouble getting our PowerPoint App installed on your school computer or any other computer – feel free to send us an email to Support@PollEverywhere.com and we’ll do our best to get you sorted out. Have a great day!
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Response by web widget
allow to answer with the web widget an open ended poll(you can do it with a multiple choice poll, but not with an open ended)
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Pictures from file
It would be nice to edit (re-size, crop, etc) and move an inserted picture when formatting the background of a poll.
9 votesThat’s a great idea! The live polls are going to have a different underlying technology very soon. Once this change is in effect, we’ll be able to better customize things like this. Keep checking back to look for this!
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PowerPoint DataSheets
I would like a live poll, activated through PowerPoint, could publish some data back into a DataSheet in PowerPoint. I run into this is a class where I want to use demographic data to sort my results and display them as a combine graph.
I have been able to do this with Turning Point. I can get this data from reports, I just want it to be fed back live to my PPT.8 votesI’ll share this with our PowerPoint integration team and see if they have any ideas. We’re somewhat limited in what we can do with the integration with Microsoft, but it’s always good to have feature ideas for it
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Improve display of images in MCQ answers
Images in MCQ answers are very small on the presentation screen as they are at the end of a bar that would usually contain text. For MCQ questions using images in the answer could the screen estate be better utilized? Example attached. Matt
8 votesWe plan on starting a project soon that will improve our Instructions View display when you are hiding the chart. We’ll try to get some image optimization in that as well. I’ll keep you posted here
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prevent cheating - highlight ALL responses after a response is submitted
Currently, student responses are highlighted on their screens. In a large, crowded lecture hall, any confused student can look around and see the majority response on their neighbors' screens. This makes respond-on-your-own questions fruitless.
A simple fix: once a student chooses a response, ALL responses are highlighted.
8 votesI can see how this could be a problem, especially in a lab or large lecture hall where most students would be responding from laptops. It’s a little easier than a small cell phone screen. There is certainly the tried and true method of peaking at your classmates paper.
We show the option that a student selected to allow them to change their answer (assuming our Clear response feature is enabled on the poll question) and to provide some feedback for the student to see if they got the question correct. And, we would like to have this continue to be our default setup.
We could make a toggle switch for you to go on anti-cheat mode or the like for more preventative measures. May I ask, would you want this setting on all of your poll questions or are there poll questions where you would want the student’s to…
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Presenters would like to be able to Password protect their polling sessions
This idea was brought to my attention by an educator. The idea is derived from the desire to ensure that students are present in class before participating. One easy way to do this is to apply a simple password or key required to access the presenter's pollev.com response page.
My initial idea is to integrate this into the user settings, in the Poll Settings of the Personal Info page.
8 votesInteresting. Is the goal to ensure that the students are actually physically present in class and prevent cheating?
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Lower cost for students
lower costs for higher education, not more features
8 votesI’m always sorry to hear from folks that we’re out of budget. Are you perhaps using us in a smaller class setting? I always recommend to any educators with classes of 50 or fewer students to try out our Basic Business Plan for $19 a month or $120 a year. It comes with our reporting and grading features and up to 50 responses per poll question. It usually does the trick for any small classes at a fraction of the cost of our Individual Instructor Plan. You can check it out and see if it will work for you here:
https://www.polleverywhere.com/account/plans/business-and-non-profit -
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sidebar that groups separate polls so that it is more clear what will happen (what questions will be asked) when the poll is started
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Location of icons
relocate the icons
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Jeff from Poll Everywhere
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Hi – Can you be more specific? We have a lot of icons.
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Post multiple responses from one sender
Allow users to send multiple responses. For example, give their own response and then respond to another's post.
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I need a SMS number from India
My audience will not be willing to send their feedback to a +61 country code number and incur international text charges!
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Integrate with Checkpoint Learning for participant imports and credit exports
Checkpoint Learning is a popular LMS in the accounting industry. Because our regulatory standards require that we ask polling questions throughout a training for anyone who does not attend a live session, we use a lot of polling. It would be helpful to be able to import all our participants from Checkpoint Learning to Poll Everywhere and export credit back to them in Checkpoint Learning if they answer the polling questions.
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Edmodo!
I'd love it if you could find a way for us to embed polls in Edmodo!
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Adjustable auto-close time for survey & questions
We're looking for a custom auto-locking survey (but could be for any question) based on time after the survey has opened. Right now it has auto-close for 5 minutes, 1 hour, or 1 day. After that the custom button lets you set a day and time. We just want to option to type in a number of minutes, specifically for us - 20 minutes. The survey will close 20 minutes after it opens to the students.
Thanks!
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Enhanced Rich Text Editing for Questions and Answer Choices
Add a rich text editor for questions and answer choices. Many users need more control over how text appears than the current platform allows.
7 votesWhat sorts of text controls did you have in mind? We do have a few options right now such as using LaTeX for math or science equations and then we also have the ability to add italics, break lines, and bold characters in the questions.
Could you give us a few examples of things you would like to add?
For info on LaTeX:https://www.polleverywhere.com/support/articles/power-users/latex
For info on italics, bold, and break lines: https://www.polleverywhere.com/blog/new-features-roundup-bold-italics-and-breaks/
Thanks for the feedback!
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Customizing poll appearance
More customization of how the polls appear to the audience. Also improving the cloud option for brain-storming
7 votesWe have a lot of customization options for how the bar chart (and other visualizations) look on the big screen. Is there any kind of visualization option you had in mind?
These include the sizing of the different chart elements, colors, background image, logo, side-by-side image, and a lot more. You can read about them or watch a vide of how they look here: https://www.polleverywhere.com/guides/presenter/getting-started#customizing-your-poll
