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   7 comments  ·  Educators' Ideas » Education  ·  Delete…  ·  Admin →
   under review  ·  AdminSara from Poll Everywhere (Product Marketer, Poll Everywhere) responded

   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 of the student for some reason (they do not have GPS enabled on their device) or if Poll Everywhere determines they are far away from the classroom
   - then, we display a notification to the student "Warning: Your phone thinks it’s far from other participants. If that’s not right "
   - the student is then given some other means to prove they are in the classroom. Or, at least knows they are considered outside the room
   - after class, when you run a Gradebook report > there will be a new column that will mark whether we believed the student was in the room or not. And, you will be able to followup or reject those responses at will

   Sorry, I know that’s a lot but it’s a tricky problem for us from a technology perspective and a privacy perspective. I’d love to hear any ideas or thoughts you have on it.

   Thanks for the idea!

   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… more

   P. Yohe supported this idea  ·  May 9, 2019
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   P. Yohe commented  ·  May 9, 2019  ·  Delete…

   I just tested using a QR code projected on the lecture hall screen in one of our oldest classrooms (old space, old equipment) to see if someone from the back of the room could successfully interact with the code using a mobile device. It worked! The first picture is of the space with the QR code on the screen. The second code is the camera app trying to open the pollev.com link (which it did).

   I think a QR reader added to the PollEv app might do two things - get to a poll fast without typing and it could provide an option to conduct attendance.

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   P. Yohe commented  ·  May 9, 2019  ·  Delete…

   Could the Poll Everywhere app on phones "signal" to other Poll Everywhere apps on phones in the same room using WiFi information unique to the space? Or display a giant QR on the screen that the student's Poll Everywhere app on their phone would interact with?

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