Educators' Ideas
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3D graphic
Have more options for graphic choices including 3D graphs
3 votesThis may soon be possible for us. We are beginning to work on updating our charts to a new technology base which will add a lot more flexibility and animations for us.
Are you thinking of something like Microsoft Excel’s 3D graphs or something a bit different?
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Character limit
Add function to limit characters (e.g. 50 characters, or 10 words)
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KWL tags for pollev
Create an online "K-W-L" chart for educators; poll takers could tag their post as either the K, W, or L category, and Poll EV would project the responses in three columns.
2 votesInteresting idea! Thank you. I’ll pass this along to out user research team to see if we can drum up some more support for it.
May I ask, about how long of a response do you usually get for each of these? We’ll want to make sure we leave enough room to display these responses on the chart.
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A filter to seach for keywords
For Q&A, open ended question type etc., it would be useful to have a filter to allow faculty to quickly search for keywords.
Especially when there is a large group and faculty wants to quickly screen for correct response/s to bring up for further discussion.
1 voteThanks for your suggestion. We’ll consider it as we get more feedback.
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Remove requirement to type "delete" when deleting a poll
The requirement to type "delete" when deleting a poll is excessive. I can understand a popup that requires a check next to "are you sure you want to delete?" But requiring typing is cumbersome, and honestly, accidentally deleting a question should be relatively rare for a reasonable person, and hardly worth creating this hurdle.
1 voteI understand completely. We were also reluctant to do this however we just had too many instances of customers accidentally deleting many poll questions in bulk.
I will say that this is not going to be a long term or permanent solution. Our hope is to implement a Trash Bin and a way for folks to “Undelete” polls within a reasonable time frame. Similar to most email providers. Unfortunately, that is a fairly complex project and will be some time.
So, please bare with us for now on the “Delete” typing. And, we really apologize for the increased friction.
Thank you for the feedback
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Add chart to remote control view.
Right now if you look at "my activities" in the app you can see participant responses even if they aren't displayed to the participants on the screen. However, when using the "Remote Control" option in the app you can't see the responses. It would be VERY useful for my faculty if they could use the app to both control their presentations and see the participant responses in advance
1 voteThanks for the suggestion! We haven’t seen great interest in our Remote Control feature. However, if we get more interest in it we’ll definitely consider some sort of chart preview as a great feature for it
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Line breaks in responses
I really like Poll Everywhere, but a serious short-coming for me is the lack of a very basic function.
I would like to be able to use Poll Everywhere to get students to practice their essay writing skills. My plan is to have students write or plan essay sections in groups in class time; be able to see the results as they come in; and at the end of the session be able to step through what is good/bad/otherwise about the answers on the big screen.
This is important to me because, as a legal academic, part of my role…
1 voteThanks for the thoughtful feedback. We really appreciate it. Before I get into the specifics, may I ask – about how long are the responses that you are receiving from your students? A rough word count or so would be fantastic, I want to make sure we’re on the same page about length.
Otherwise, there is some technical concerns around adding specific HTML in responses because we don’t want to open any security holes in replies. And, I understand your point that is a large burden on students to learn anyway.
There’s some balance we have between having Enter submit the response instead of a new line. The vast majority of the time we have shorter responses and we want to emphasize speed for real time replies. But, I can understand confusion there. We had a lot of back and forth on which is the appropriate behavior.
Ultimately, I think…
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Manually input/modify user responses
One thing that is a bit irksome is when students have technical issues with their response to a poll that I use as a quiz. My current workaround is to manually adjust their score after the fact. Is there a way for me to manually input a response for a student? That would be such a useful feature.
1 voteUnfortunately, we do not have a way to do that right now and we’re hesitant to make one. The basic hangup is that we have to plan and account for bad actors. For a university that’s a reasonable situation, but for our corporate clients it is much more nuanced because we don’t want them to be altering each others responses.
There might be something we can do with a larger permissions situation. I’ll bring it up to the team.
Thanks for the feedback
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Add more slots to the “Recent Presentations” on the home screen of the mobile app.
Hello, I am a first year medical student. We use Poll Everywhere multiple times a week with several different professors. It works well, however we are constantly entering different presentation names. Is it possible to add a few more slots (6-9 total) to “Recent presentations?”
1 voteWe’re taking a look at how we could fit more presentations on the screen.
Thanks for the feedback!
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Reports and Data Runs
Scenario:
Faculty has a combined Canvas set up for four sections of Acct 2122.The faculty clears/archives his PE data after each class. So, at the end of the day, he has four PE data sets (one for the 8am class, one for the 9:30am class, etc). Faculty needs to transfer the data to his one Combined Canvas course.
Faculty started using PE in fall 2017. During fall 2017, he would select “All runs” to move his four PE data sets into the Canvas gradebook. So, faculty only ran the PE grade transfer process one time for all four sections.
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1 voteThank you for the detailed workflow and feedback. I can definitely understand the difficulty in running a report on a set of polls which is used that frequently.
It’s a tough problem and reporting can be tricky. I’ll pass this along for our research team and see what we can do.
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Add tags to polls
It would be nice if users could add tags to polls based on topics, subject matter, or organization. For example, if I'm teaching a biology course that's M/W/F this semester but T/TH next semester, I will want to re-arrange my groups to fit the new schedule. Similarly, I might have questions on a particular topic that I use in different classes. If I know that I have a question on "mitosis" but I'm not sure which group or whether that word appears in the question text, if the question was tagged with that term and the term was searchable it…
1 voteThanks for the feedback! That’s an interesting request. Do you have a preference for using tags over, say, a more hierarchical folder system?
I know there’s been requests for both and they address similar, but different problems. Regardless, thank you for the details feedback! I’ll pass this along to the team
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ranking
It would be great if "Ranking" polls could be graded, meaning that the initial order entered by the poll creator is considered "correct" and students can be evaluated on whether they got it right or not.
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Multi-country SMS option
I need an SMS number for South Africa.
1 voteWe’ll keep an eye out for when one of our vendors offers a South African number.
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Logos for Reports
The ability to add logos to reports and/or to download reports into MS Word.
1 voteWhere on the report would you like to show the Logo?
Otherwise, we don’t have any immediate plans to allow branding/editing of the reports. If you do have a PDF editor though, I do recommend printing the reports to PDF and then going on from there.
Thanks for the idea!
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Make using surveys as quizzes easier
Expand surveys into quizzes
1 voteCould you expand a bit on what you view the differences between a survey as a quiz? For example, are your concerns more around using us for assessment and you want to prevent cheating or have more grading options? Or, do you have something else in mind
Thanks for the feedback!
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For the Moodle integration, automatically send students a registration link
Right now, the e-mail sent out to students notifies students that their account has been created, but does not explain the registration process or provide a link. It would be great if these were provided or if the e-mail was customizable by the instructor.
1 voteRight now (as of about August), we send an email to students who are registered via an LMS. This email says:
“[Professor Name] has registered you as a participant with their Poll Everywhere account. To log in and complete the registration process use the following link: [password_link]”We’re currently working on a way to allow professors to resend this link to their students in bulk if they haven’t received it or haven’t logged in. We can definitely look into some ways to customize this message, but it is a bit larger of a project than we’d like because we need to store these customized messages, add some handling to prevent spam (in case someone is only pretending to be an educator), and then change the LMS invitation workflow to allow some handling to customize the email. It’s something we will definitely consider if we hear it requested from some…
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Integrate iCollege grading
Integrate with grading book in iCollege.
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zoom
zoom features
1 voteWhat part of our application would you be interested in zooming in and out of? We’re happy to look into what options are available for us
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Intregrate with Entrada LMS
Integrate with Entrada LMS (http://www.entrada-project.org/)
1 voteI haven’t heard of Entrada before, but we can certainly check it out. We’re always interested in more LMS integrations. If they support LTI 2.0 then there’s a good shot that we’ll be able to work with Entrada in the future
Thanks for the idea!
Brian
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Different participant ID's for two (or more) presenter's under one account
Two different professors at my university are using a polleverywhere account registered under the university's account for classes. The problem is that they each want me to use a different method of identification, but under the university's account I can only pick one special ID which ends up used for both, rather than a separate ID for each professor (unless I'm mistaken).
1 voteYou are not mistaken. We currently have it, so that all students are registered with all of the professors on the same account. This makes it easy for you (the student) because you don’t need to register multiple times with multiple professors. Just once and your done. It’s especially good for universities which have the students pay for the license themselves.
Unfortunately, that makes it hard for you (the students) to have specific settings just for individual professors. This is only the second time I’ve heard this, but this might be happening more and I can understand the frustration.
I’ll bring it up to our engineering team and see the difficulty for this.
Best,
Brian
