Keener, Emily
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11 votes
This has always been a far-off dream for us and I 100% understand the desire to limit responses to only participants within the room. We have been waiting and hoping for GeoTracking technology to be reliable enough for us to use as part of our regular workflow. I have personally used Uber or enough times where they have me one or more city blocks away from my actual location and we really don’t want the same situation to prevent a student from getting any class credit.
That said, there are a few ways we could try to tackle the problem. Would something like this work for you?
- you are able to set you poll questions to “Request the participants location” before they are able to respond
- the student is then prompted to share their location on the phone/laptop
- if Poll Everywhere is unable to determine the location…An error occurred while saving the comment An error occurred while saving the comment Keener, Emily
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Faculty often ask us about checking student response location, especially in our larger sections. As it is now, we recommend starting with a timed question that only those in class could answer, like what the prof is wearing or what is written on the board. I'll reach out to support to see if the "request the participant's location" is still an option ... that might be a decent workaround, but I can't seem to locate it in my account.
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Thanks for the feedback all. There are a few different workarounds that might work for you all, but we don’t have anything explicitly for this.
We do have a CSV importer to import poll questions. You can read about that here: https://www.polleverywhere.com/support/articles/create-activities/import-questions
For students who missed class or just for generally sharing the content: I recommend either our Bulk Screenshot tool or maybe printing out an Executive Summary report.
- the bulk screenshot tool will take screenshots of up to 10 polls that can then be shared via email or any other way that works for you. To do this: Go to the Polls page → select the polls you want → Click the grey Download button at the top → select Screenshots.For exporting to CSV for records or internal purposes, I recommend using our Pivot Response Table report and then exporting that to CSV. That will create…
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Hi. I've had faculty request this at our university. The use case is when a student misses part of the lecture or for some reason was not able to respond to polls in class, the professor would like to give them a paper version of the question(s). This would probably be more a feature request for faculty who grade polling activity. (Side note: when we were looking at various polling options before going with Poll Everywhere, one company offered a "save as" pdf option for their questions and, surprisingly, faculty seemed to really like this. I think for people who are nervous to try a new technology, having an alternative format option feels like a safety net.)
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Interesting. Is the goal to ensure that the students are actually physically present in class and prevent cheating?
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We have had the same request from faculty. And, yes, I think the idea comes back to preventing cheating, as well as preventing students from seeing questions as they are reviewing their presentations/animations in PowerPoint before class.
Keener, Emily
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Ahh, I see that the feature you mentioned was a recommendation, not something in existence already :) Yes, I think this could work! It's definitely worth exploring for your higher ed customers. Thanks!