- [Jen] Thursday,
but leading up to some more warm weather and melting,
which I'm looking forward to.
This is our third Student Response System Demonstration.
We've got Dan from Poll Everywhere,
who's going to be sharing about the system.
Hi, welcome Dan.
Your New Jersey, right?
So I think a little warmer than where we are probably
- [Dan] It's raining today.
Unfortunately.
- Yeah, yeah.
Showers bring flowers, right?
April, April showers bring May flowers.
We are going to have a similar system to what we've done
in that in the last couple of demonstrations
where Dan's going to spend some time
demonstrating his platform.
And it sounds like Poll Everywhere
has a Q&A system built into it.
So he's gonna be pausing during his presentation
and allowing folks to ask some questions
on via the platform.
But if you have trouble doing that on the platform
you can always use the chat as well in this meeting.
But Dan is gonna be...
I'll be helping monitor the chat here
and Dan will be monitoring the chat over in Poll Everywhere.
So I think without much further ado, I will have Holly,
who's the co-chair of the Student Response System with me,
introduce herself.
And then we will turn things
over to Dan for the presentation.
Holly.
- [Holly] Hi everybody.
Thanks for being here today and thank you to Dan.
I'm Holly Brooklyn Parker
from the Center for Teaching and Learning.
- Great. Thanks Holly.
And we've got a few of our committee members here as well
and I'm super happy to have others of you
from our community who can watch this demonstration
and then give feedback.
We will be putting a survey for feedback,
in the chat at the end of the demo.
And we'll also send that to you via email.
So Dan, I'm gonna turn things over to you.
- [Dan] Great.
Yeah, thanks for the introductions.
Appreciate it.
Hi everyone.
My name is Dan Petito.
I'm the account executive here at Poll Everywhere.
And I've been working in higher education
for about eight years,
four of which are here with Poll Everywhere.
And yeah, thanks for taking some time
to kind of step into our company.
A couple of things to show,
just in terms of a little bit of background
on Poll Everywhere before we kind of step into the system.
But when we think of the COO of something
like Poll Everywhere, especially in the context,
of learning environments,
we really think about enhancing the student experience,
especially now right with remote
and high flex learning models
at the center of how educators teach and students learn
keeping students and educators connected from a distance.
As mentioned, I will be sharing some content
in the form of Poll Everywhere activities.
So if you actually head over on a device that you have
in front of you, polleEv.com/d a N N Y P
This is what you'll see when you hit that page.
You'll be prompted to enter a username.
You can tell me who you are if you'd like.
You can also bypass this step just by clicking continue.
And we'll just, auto-generate a username for you.
Just two important things to keep in mind here,
you will see two tabs on this response page.
The tab to the left is when I activate an oppor
and a poll everywhere question a little bit later
on when I'm presenting some content.
And I also have this right tab that's available to you
which is in pinned activity.
This is active at all times.
So if you do have some questions,
feel free to surface them here.
We'll take a break or two kind of before the end
and we'll circle back and highlight some of these questions
and walk through them.
So feel free to surface your questions there.
And yeah just a little bit of a background
on Poll Everywhere and some general use cases.
So we're used a lot
for things like attendance, formative assessment
just overall engagement, which ties closely
into class participation at scale.
You know, when thinking of a virtual
or physical room, right?
How do we give students sufficient cover
to share their thoughts, questions,
comments, ideas, concerns.
There are two ways that you can use
the Poll Everywhere System.
There's identifiable voting and unidentifiable voting.
So identifiable voting is helpful, you know
and use cases where you want to use Poll Everywhere
for something like greater participation attribution, right?
What spot, what students are responding to,
which questions and how.
Maybe we're pushing that data back to Blackboard
and then also sensitive discussion.
So maybe we're presenting sensitive content
or just presenting questions where we want students
to feel inclined to answer, honestly.
So we can certainly use Poll Everywhere
for identifiable voting or an anonymous voting as well.
We've been around since 2008
we were the world's first software based response system
for mobile devices, lots of educators using Poll Everywhere
lots of activities created.
And then just some general differentiators.
So SOC 2-level security, single sign-on integration
LTI advantage with Blackboard, canvas Moodle Sekai
and Brightspace and sharing and collaboration feature
specifically around team teaching.
And we also worked the way instructors do, right?
So, you know, I'm sure you're presenting content
in slideware applications like PowerPoint,
keynote and Google slides.
So we have tight integrations
with those slideware applications to strategically embed
interactive questions with other learning content.
And then also mobile devices, right?
So both for presentation and participation purposes
we do have apps available
both for students and for educators.
So with that,
I'm going to head over to poll everywhere.com
to make this a little bit bigger here.
So it's a little easier to see
and this is essentially what you see when you log
into Poll Everywhere.
So this is your homepage, a lot of the workflows
and actions within the system, stem from this homepage.
Everything from activity creation
to managing existing Poll Everywhere content.
So from an organization perspective
as we start to create content in the system
organization is an important aspect, right?
What questions do I use?
And when do I use them?
So these gray bars here just designate groups
for our poll questions.
So do I have a demo group here?
If I click the dropdown,
all of my demo activities are nested underneath that folder.
We're introducing a new feature later this year
with nested folders
which essentially just little allows you to sub organize
folders versus just having one hierarchy, right.
So maybe think course at the top section
as a sub folder and maybe term as another sub folder.
So some improvements coming with general organization
of content, but this is essentially
how your homepage is kind of structured.
What questions do I use and when do I use them?
We can edit questions directly from this page.
We can also activate them directly from this page.
Also duplicate or share these questions
in the event that we'd like to collaborate with a colleague.
So that's just general organization for your questions.
I did wanna just jump into the admin console here.
So this is specifically for people
that might be kind of managing the account
just general management for your users.
You know, who's on the account with department,
are they in an existing team or user groups
so they can collaborate with one another.
If you're ever using Poll Everywhere
maybe with a TA as an example.
So just some general account settings
an administrator facing capabilities within Poll Everywhere.
As an instructor, when you sign up
we typically use email invitations
as a way to invite you to an account.
So you may be using an existing Poll Everywhere account.
Maybe you have a free license
or an individual instructor license
as part of a potential, you know
university implementation of Poll Everywhere, right.
You wouldn't lose any data if you have an active account
that you've been using over time.
So, you know, if you were to fold
into more of a shared account, you wouldn't lose that data.
If you didn't have an account
you would just be provisioned a brand new account, you know
with more enterprise related features.
But one of the first steps, as I mentioned before
we can use Poll Everywhere
both for identifiable or unidentifiable voting.
So in scenarios where you want to use Poll Everywhere
for identifiable voting,
we have a feature called Student Registration.
So there's a few different ways that we can achieve
registration in Poll Everywhere.
So the first way is a bit of an additive step,
where we can actually import a CSV file of our students.
So being able to bring in our course rosters into the system
And this is just some general guidance that we give you
in terms of how to structure the C.S.V.
If you do wanna bring in your rosters
into Poll Everywhere.
So the only fields that we require right now
or email first name and last name.
Step two is to choose your file of course.
Step three is important if you are importing students.
So when we do this,
this is ensuring that students receive an email
prompting them to create an account.
So they will be provisioned to participant
or student account as part of the registration process
as we will be linking responses back
to their U.V.M email address.
So we do wanna make sure that we select step three.
Part four is course attribution.
So we'll be listing or telling Poll Everywhere
the specific course or courses,
with which rosters were pulling into Poll Everywhere.
So I have some predefined here,
but obviously if you were getting started,
you'd be starting from scratch.
So we would just be able to create a brand new group,
tell Poll Everywhere that this is just our demo
test 1234 course, and then we can actually import
and pull that roster into Poll Everywhere.
So this is the first way that we can import.
Once we do pull in that C.S.V,
what we'll start to see is this list of students
start to populate.
So basically what this represents is, you know,
obviously this is a test or to test students.
These circles indicate courses
that are listed over to the right.
So any circles that are filled in,
is telling me that this particular course or student
rather is registered in that Bio 101-101 dash course.
So we can add or remove students
in terms of which courses are applicable.
So that's the CSV for workflow.
Again, a bit more manual compared to if we're leveraging
something like an L.T.I integration.
So the other way that we can register students
is through Learning Management System Integration.
So we actually have two integrations available today.
There's our legacy integrations with Blackboard
which is a building block.
And then we also have LTI one dot three or LTI advantage.
So one of the main benefits to the direct integration is...
Right, it's not an additive step.
We don't need to tell Poll Everywhere
which course these students are in.
If we're leveraging the integration, right, we can just pull
in those rosters as they're listed in the L.M.S.
And essentially these courses will auto-populate
as they're listed within the Learning Management System.
So the L.T.I integration is preferred
just because it does take some of those more additive steps
away as compared to the CSV or more manual import workflow.
We can do a few things on this page,
once we're kind of finished registering students
Since this list will grow in size,
obviously we can start to search for students by name.
If we want to just get a quick snapshot into, you know
some of their history in terms of responses,
students also have visibility into this response history
apart from just the instructors themselves.
So if they're using the Poll Everywhere app,
they can also use the response history as somewhat
of a study guide.
A peer here over the past three weeks,
you know, I participated in an X activities.
If any of them have correctness associated with them,
we will mark that in the response history.
So just a quick view for students to get a general sense
for their response history,
whether that's within polleverywhere.com
or within the application itself.
Whether that's a mobile or desktop app.
Cool, so that's registration.
Again, we can register students
either manually, which is through CSV, right.
Tell Poll Everywhere, which courses we're bringing in
and assigning students to courses that way.
Or we can leverage the LTI integration
where we're input importing those rosters, right
as they're listed in Blackboard, and of course association
happens more automatically versus manually.
So if, and when we do decide to register students
which is typically the first step
when you sign up for Poll Everywhere,
the next step that you'll wanna take
is to actually go ahead and create some content.
So there's a couple of different ways
that we can do that, three specifically.
The first way that we can do is we can actually start
to import content into Poll Everywhere in bulk.
So we do have this bulk C.S.V importer.
And similar to the student C.S.V import,
we do give you some guidance
just in terms of how to structure that template.
So if you do want to bring a batch of questions
into Poll Everywhere, you certainly can.
Activity would be pull of course type
is just type of question.
If you're coming from, you know, maybe a clicker solution
those will predominantly be multiple choice questions,
a title, and then options or responses.
So just some general guidance
on how to bring questions into the system in bulk.
The other way to create content in Poll Everywhere
is we can actually start to create questions individually.
So if I click on new activity, just this blue button here,
it will take us directly
to the Poll Everywhere activity gallery.
So these are all the different types of questions
that we can create.
We have multiple choice questions, right?
So just your standard ABCD true false,
word clouds or open-ended responses.
So really geared towards one word responses
and really more of an icebreaker
or warmup type of activity,
just to get students comfortable with the polling experience
A really good way to identify themes,
maybe it's an ice breaker,
maybe it's a mental health check,
just to check in how students are doing.
That word cloud updates dynamically
as responses are received.
And we'll see an example a little bit later
when we present some questions.
Q & A questions, or allow students to submit
questions, comments, and concerns.
So we're actually crowdsourcing questions to students.
The cool part about Q & A
is that they also can upper or downvote other responses
that students submit
that they either agree or disagree with.
So similar to the Q & A question that I have up right now
what questions do you have about Poll Everywhere.
When we circle back to that question,
you know, as today's presenter
I'll be able to get a good understanding of,
you know what sort of themes are we identifying?
What questions is the group forming a consensus around
in terms of prioritizing those follow-up and action items.
Clickable image questions, allow you to upload an image
and ask a question about it.
With clickable image questions,
there's actually a grading component associated with them.
So this template image may not be the best example,
but if I click my mouse here, we can start to tell Poll
Everywhere that these regions exist.
And we can actually mark regions as correct or incorrect.
We have some customers that upload a seating chart
and have students pinpoint where their seat in class is.
And they use that as a form or a way to take attendance.
It's also really helpful in medical education, right.
Uploading an X-ray and asking students
to pinpoint where the pathology lies.
So we can use clickable image questions in pretty
interesting ways and leverage grading components.
So there is a multi-question activities.
So you can include all of the different types
of Poll Everywhere activities in a survey.
So very much a multi-question activity.
You can have as many questions in the survey as you like
and we can add additional options here
to include different responses, add separate questions
and things like that.
There's three main graded gradable activities in the system.
So multiple choice, of course, is one,
clickable image as we saw.
And then we also have competitions.
So competitions is essentially instructors present
the questions and students play for points.
It's similar in theory to Kahoot
in terms of just live trivia,
we show a leaderboard in between each question
and we track the top 10 responders.
There's also confetti, which people seem to really like.
If I click on more of these
are just different visualizations,
more for inspiration than anything else.
So, you know, with questions that you create in the system
we can essentially reconfigure
just what the visual settings, just general look and feel
of these questions look like.
So just more for inspiration than anything else.
What we'll do now is just to give you an idea
for just the general workflow.
And we'll look at kind of visual settings,
the customization of questions and things like that.
So it's gonna create a test question here.
We'll ask what's your favorite color.
Let's say green, red, and blue.
So as we're creating a question in this workflow
we can reorder these responses if we wanted to
without having to re insert the response options.
We can designate correctness here too.
So select one or all that apply.
We can also use images in creative ways.
So this image icon next to the title of my question
is actually what we call an instructional image.
Just essentially an image
that compliments the title of our question.
So an incident since maybe it's a picture of a rainbow,
and then we can also get creative
with our response options as well.
So if we didn't want just red, blue and green text
to be our response options,
we can upload an image of a red, blue and green box instead.
We always wanna create content with organization in mind.
So we can assign this activity to a group, right?
What questions do I use and when do I use them?
So I'll typically present this question
on a demo like today.
So now this question will be filed
under my demo group on my homepage, as we saw before.
So I'll click create.
And then once I do that, we'll be taken to essentially
a static screen where our question isn't active yet
but we can start to make some decisions around the look
and feel of this question.
Some basic settings
and then configurations for this question.
So if I click on visual settings here,
the default visualization for multiple choice questions
is a bar chart.
We also have column charts and donut charts.
I'm gonna activate this question.
So feel free to let me know what your favorite color is.
If you'd like go back to bar chart.
But yeah, essentially we can also designate themes here
as well.
So we have classic dark bright,
and, you know I guess custom
is something that you can decide in terms
of your general settings.
But that's all configurable within visual settings.
And then we can also get a little bit more granular
with just the general look and feel of our question.
So, you know, right, what's what sort of font?
Is there a logo that we're uploading?
You know, what does that kind of look like?
So just general look and feel and customization
Beyond that, we have two main voting modalities
in Poll Everywhere, as you see.
So we have website voting and text message voting.
So as you saw, when we got started, right,
if you're voting via the web,
you're just visiting polivy.com/danny P.
And that's essentially my username.
So, you know, if and where you are presenting questions,
you can customize that username to be something shorter
and more identifiable to you.
We can have both of these voting options
enabled concurrently which I do now,
or we can enable them independently of one another.
We can also use something like keyword voting.
So it kind of allows you to go one level deeper
in terms of reserved or custom keywords.
So, you know, let's say hypothetically.
I wanted to make some something a little bit more
identifiable to UVM.
I can say, you know, maybe this is new VMR.
So to submit your response for red text UVM
or to the shortcode versus submitting with ABC or D.
So we can get a little bit creative
with keywords and you know, how we're choosing
to configure responses and how students respond.
So that's a little bit more on custom and reserved keywords.
Let's see here.
Beyond that, we can also manage the audio, the restriction
or I'm sorry, the identity of participants.
So by default, we don't restrict participation.
So anyone that visits the link can respond.
The important thing to keep a note here
is if there are folks that do plan to use Poll Everywhere
predominantly for grade
and participation attribution, right?
We can restrict polling to registered participants only.
So essentially what that means is that when you hit
this question, a student would be prompted to log in
before being allowed to respond to activities.
And the reason for that, right, is we want to make sure
that we're able to attribute responses back
to their UVM email address.
And if we're going to communicate that data back
to something like Blackboard, right,
those identifiers would typically match
to be able to populate the grade book.
So just something to keep in mind there,
we can lock down polling to only registered students.
And that is enabled bubble
on a question by question basis, right?
You'll probably be asking some lower stakes questions
and then potentially some higher stakes questions.
So for those higher stakes questions
to the extent it makes sense,
we can restrict a registered participants only.
Even if we are restricting participation
to only those students who are registered,
we can still use Poll Everywhere, completely anonymously.
So just keep that in mind.
So we would just enable anonymity
by selecting this check box here
and a student responses would remain anonymous.
So just a couple of key points
on, you know, kind of identifiable
versus unidentifiable voting.
Lastly we have response settings.
So just generally, how many times can a student
submit a response?
If we're just encouraging discussion, right
We'll probably want to allow them to respond
as many times as they like.
We can also disable duplicate responses.
So for multiple choice questions, right.
If I would only want you to be able to submit red,
blue or green, ones we can disable duplicate responses.
We can allow changes to answers or disallow changes.
And then Poll Everywhere,
is also a two-way messaging system to an extent.
So I can push a message in app
back to students when they submit a response.
Could be something as simple
as thanks for submitting a response.
Or maybe we identify to check for understanding opportunity.
We can link to an L.M.S course page here if we wanted to.
Cool, I wanted to take a pause here.
I don't know if maybe there were any questions that came in.
- So far, nothing's come through the chat,
but maybe in the Poll Everywhere system.
- [Dan] Let's take a look.
I'm to the wrong place.
That's not normal.
All right, we should have opened Q & A.
Actually have to click right into it.
I think it may have seen a zero.
So maybe no questions so far.
Okay, I will take that.
- [Holly] I'm just going to ask a verbal question.
I know that it had browser and text pulling.
- [Dan] Yeah
- [Holly] Is there an app as well that students can use?
- [Dan] There is. For iOS, Android
And we also have a participant desktop app.
So the good thing about the apps is
it does have intelligence built in.
So, you know, like you went to my username, right.
Just in a web browser.
The good thing about the app
is that it'll track your history.
So you'll, as students participate
in join instructors to submit questions
and participate in activities.
They'll see that history, right,
in terms of, your last five or ten presenters
that you've joined with.
So after a while it's just a matter of clicking
versus, you know kind of hitting a page
and putting in that username.
So we typically do recommend the apps for students.
It's just, a more streamlined experience for them.
I did want to present a couple of questions.
I know we presented the test question before
just to give you an idea
of what the participant experience is like.
So this is a word cloud, and here we're asking
just use one word or emoji
to describe how you're feeling today.
Let me save these changes really quickly
to make sure that I have the right response settings.
You can respond as many times as you like.
Everyone answers are anonymous.
Perfect. You can respond with emojis fatigued on the feed.
I think we're all feeling super fatigued lately.
Calm. Okay. Yeah, we also have a moderation feature.
So obviously with an open-ended question
there's the risk of people potentially
surfacing, you know, unwanted responses.
So we can actually enable moderation
for scenarios like that.
So it's just the mechanism for me to say, okay
I want to be able to view responses
before I show them on screen.
So I exhausted seems fine.
I'm not sure what that is.
So that seems fine.
Tired, stressed.
Yeah. I think we all are caffeinated., that's good.
Pretty decent, stretched, Okay.
Hey, I did yoga this morning.
So also feeling stretched, sideways face, sure, tired.
The cool part about moderation
is that we've actually introduced a new feature,
that's called team moderation.
So since moderation is a little bit of obstructive
of, you know, the view when you're presenting,
we can actually use team moderation.
It's essentially just a specific link that we distribute
and you can assign moderation responsibilities
to someone else.
So moderation is good.
We also do have an auto sensor.
So we auto sensor out any profanity.
We have a digital swear jar
of words that we've deemed not great words.
So, we can enable that to automatically
sensor those filters out.
And then essentially moderation is the second line
of defense for anything that kind
of trickles through that fence.
So yeah, just something to keep in mind.
The interesting thing with word clouds
is that it...
Like I mentioned earlier it's a good way to identify themes.
So if someone were to submit caffeinated again
I'll do it again.
I'll do it here just to, just for, to show how it works.
Unless someone else beats me to it.
Common responses that are received will grow in size.
So I will type into caffeinated.
- [Woman] And if you still have moderated on
will it grow because you've already approved it
or do you have to approve it again?
- [Dan] You won't have to approve it again.
So caffeinated should have just grown in size a bit
unless that may have misspelled it.
But that's one of the cool parts about word clouds
is just, Hey what are these standout words, right?
As those words continue to grow in size
the other response options
will start to wrap and tile around that.
So, you know, again obviously
more responses the better and you know
a good way to identify themes and things like that.
So it looks like it's a pretty even split
between caffeinated tired, stress decent.
And I misspelled caffeinated so that did not grow in size.
But yeah, just a quick visualization
of what a word cloud looks like.
So this is a rank question.
Functions a little bit differently than the other.
So basically on your device, what you'll want to do
is if you're on a touch screen, if, if you touch your screen
or hover and click your mouse over,
one of the response options, you will see
an up and down arrow appear.
So what you want to do
is set them in your order of preference first.
Once you have them in your order of preference
then click submit.
Okay, sleep, sleep at the top.
I feel like this shouldn't even be
an active question that I present.
It's fairly common
in terms of where things kind of settle after the fact.
I feel like a screenshot would be a more suitable option.
But Oh, it looks like we have some other yogis out there.
That's great to see not many runners and some cooks, okay.
We're all discovering new hobbies
with the more time that we're spending at home.
So maybe some of these are new hobbies for you,
with work not being one of those seemingly.
Cool, so it looks like we have a tie with reading
and running, both fun things.
Cool. And you call that work for being last
suddenly starts creeping up towards the top.
Cool, Yeah. Thanks for letting me know your thoughts.
Yeah, the next question we have is just a general
just wanted to gauge your your general familiarity
with Poll Everywhere.
I'm assuming some of you may have used this in the past.
Maybe you're completely new to it.
And this is just your first introduction.
If that's the case
I hope this has been valuable to you so far.
And I don't think I've mastered Poll Everywhere
or all that's Poll Everywhere.
But I aspire to use it but not in a while.
It's like, if you folks...
Okay. Oh, seems some of you have mastered Poll Everywhere.
Cool, good to see.
So yeah, it looks like the majority
of you are completely new to it
with some beginners and a couple of potential
Poll Everywhere are jealous
- Great.
I mentioned clickable image question earlier.
So I did want to show a little bit more
of an impactful example.
So basically what I did here is I uploaded, you know
just a diagnostic image asking you where the heart is.
We have a timer in Poll Everywhere too.
So we can leverage that in instances where
we want to just allow the question
to auto lock after a certain period of time.
So I'll give us 15 more seconds.
And it looks like we have most pins
in the right spot and nose and arm.
Is that the...
Not sure what what's above the bladder there.
Okay, cool.
So this question will automatically lock.
So it should say on your device
response is no longer accepted.
So really from a workflow perspective is, you know
we'll show the show the region.
So we'll just essentially just reveal the box
or the grid that we've created.
So any pins in the correct region will be marked as correct.
And then any pins such as arm, nose and the other one,
would be marked yellow with an X.
Cool.
So, I do still have that question
up and I'm happy to answer it since we're here.
What questions do you have about Poll Everywhere?
Is this question function, you slide
during classes for students to ask questions.
It is.
So this question is active at all times
and it's specifically for Q & A type questions
just because, you know that's the mechanism for students
being able to to surface things like questions,
comments, or concerns.
So yeah, any P...
we call it a pinned activity.
So it's pinned Q & A
ultimately just allowing students to submit.
And then obviously as you saw
it looks like this question received one up vote.
So at least one other person was interested
in the answer to this question.
Absolutely can.
So we have a feature
in Poll Everywhere called shared activities.
So what's shared a lot activities allows you to do
is essentially allows a user in the system
to create a question bank or a pool of questions.
And then they can actually directly share those questions
with the TA and the TA can use those questions independently
without any interference with the sharer of those questions.
So, you know, more often than not
if TAs are using something like Poll Everywhere, right.
And the instructor is as well,
they can very easily use shared content,
report on that question individually
or even run shared reports on that content.
So shared activities is a really key feature specifically
for team teaching scenarios.
Let's see
Can you track student answers
to see which students are on track?
What if we haven't enabled anonymous answers?
So yeah, in any cases where we have anonymity enabled
we're no longer attributing those responses back
to an email address just simply because, you know
polling would be truly anonymous.
So we do ask you just to, you know, again, you know
map out which use cases those might be.
And obviously in those cases, right.
You know, so any anonymous questions for
we're not linking back to a particular email address
or student identifier
but in the cases where we do want to do that
we can either enforce registration
or we can simply just import
those rosters and use poll everywhere in that sense.
But yeah, in cases, where we enable anonymity,
we're aren't able to track student answers.
And then the on-track portion is, you know, obviously
if we are collecting or presenting graded questions
then we do have the ability to create a grade book report.
And I'm happy to show you an example of that.
A grade book report is typically the mechanism
for transferring any grades from Poll Everywhere
back to a learning management system.
Yes, I can show you the PowerPoint workflow
Then questions are not available in SMS voting.
So it's just strictly open-ended in multiple choice.
Okay, Yeah, let's jump into PowerPoint really quick.
So, yeah, as I mentioned earlier, we do have integrations
with PowerPoint, keynote and Google slides.
So we have two different, slightly different integrations
depending on if you're using PC or if you're using a Mac.
So I'm on a Mac today.
So I'll just give you an idea
as to what the Mac workflow looks like.
If you're on a PC, essentially what you'll see
when you download the Poll Everywhere at
on is a Poll Everywhere ribbon
at the very top context of PowerPoint.
The integration itself looks exactly the same.
You're just accessing it from a slightly different place
if you're on Mac.
So again, I'm on Mac, so I'll bring up the Poll Everywhere.
Add in, it's just a presenter app, essentially on Mac.
This looks identical, like I said to PC.
If you're using the PC admin
you just access it differently on PC
via Poll Everywhere ribbon, right within PowerPoint.
But essentially when you're leveraging the integration
this is what you see.
If you remember, if I go back to poll everywhere.com
this is a mirroring my homepage.
So all of my
if you remember my poll groups, these are all intact.
All of my activities nested under the appropriate groups.
So if you also remember at the beginning
I mentioned there's three different ways
that you can create content and Poll Everywhere.
The third way is actually
through the PowerPoint integration.
So I'll show you just embedding first.
So the way that embedding works is what we'll do
is we'll just take our demo questions as an example
and say, you know, we want to use these three questions.
We'll click insert, pull every rule
take a second to drop these slides right
after the last slide I was on.
So once we call it, select the questions
we can automatically drop them
right into our PowerPoint presentation.
Obviously the power of the integration
is in being able to wrap these questions right
around other important learning content.
So we can easily kind of move
and shift these around into a preferred order.
You know, more cases than not
we're not going to be presenting Poll Everywhere
activities in rapid succession.
So, you know
we'll be moving them around other learning content.
Again, all of my groups here are intact.
I can even create new folders.
If I wanted to create new groups
you can essentially create all
of your new poll content in the integration itself
if you wanted to
When you create your content here
your content automatically populates
in your Poll Everywhere account.
So there's no recreating questions you could ultimately live
in the add in for question creation
and then obviously embedding
and dropping content into PowerPoint.
So like I said, I can create a brand new activity here,
if I wanted to.
Every anything from the activity gallery
we can just essentially upload
a brand new multiple choice question.
I can edit it right on the fly.
We'll just keep it titled untitled multiple choice question
but we can continue adding options.
We can obviously edit our response options here too
if we wanted to.
So this is really just everything that you can do, right?
Within poll everywhere.com for the most part
right within the app itself.
Again, if you're on PC
you'll be doing this right within the ad end via the ribbon.
I'm just slightly separate using our presenter app
since I'm on a Mac today.
But yeah, I clicked save on this question
and basically I have this new static question
that I can either continue to edit right in PowerPoint
or in the add in, or I can just essentially drop it
right into my slide when I'm ready.
The benefit of the integration too,
is, you know, obviously we're mostly going
to be presenting live content, right.
Hey, here's the Poll Everywhere question.
And, you know hit this page
to go activate and respond to it.
But we can actually also embed Poll Everywhere
questions in different States.
So, you know, maybe previously you presented some content
and you gathered some pretty compelling results.
You can actually just embed a results slide
if you wanted to
which is just a static slide showing the results.
So you can get a little bit creative
with different activity States
and how they populate in PowerPoint once we embed them.
I did want to touch on just a couple of things
with respect to asynchronous polling.
Any questions that you create in Poll Everywhere,
they do have their own unique shareable response
link associated with them.
So Poll Everywhere is predominantly used
as a live polling system.
But if I click over on this present tab here
We have this share up dropdown.
So we can actually embed Poll Everywhere questions
into any webpage that accepts an I-frame.
So this is a response link.
So I can actually copy this link
and then embed this into maybe an LMS course page
and students can visit that course page
and respond to questions directly in that page
or embed using eye frames.
And then similarly, as I mentioned before
how we can embed certain States of a question in PowerPoint
let's say, hypothetically, we presented some content
and gathered some compelling results.
You know, maybe you just throw out
some general learning content.
We can also embed those live results charts
into a course page if we wanted to.
Or into an internal webpage, you know
any webpage that accepts an I-frame.
So with these links, if we're not embedding them into pages
we can also email them out to students.
Maybe it's a survey that's intended as a self-paced quiz.
So yeah, just a reminder, any content that you create
in the system also does have its own unique shareable link.
So that definitely some use cases for Poll Everywhere
in situations where you're not
necessarily doing fully live polling
some more asynchronous type of use cases.
I want to dive into reporting really quickly.
So, you know, obviously we've walked
through some of the registration workflows, right.
If, and when we're going to be using Poll Everywhere
for greater participation attribution
we would do want to register students,
whether that's through CSV
or whether that's through a direct tie in
with the learning management system with LTI advantage.
We also touched on
just some of the general presentation workflows, right?
Importing in bulk, creating activities individually
just the general settings associated with those questions
how to embed in PowerPoint.
Keynote works similarly.
We also have an integration with Google slides.
It's just a Chrome extension
for anyone that might be using Google slides.
But once we start to create
and create content right receive results, you know
the next natural step would be we want to start
to report on those results.
So I think where as the heart is a good example,
just because that had a grading component
associated with it.
So when I want to create a report on Poll Everywhere,
we can select the question or questions
that we want to report on.
We'll select create report.
We'll select grade book here.
Again, grade book reports are typically the mechanism
for communicating anything that's created
from Poll Everywhere back to a learning management system.
So as you saw, it looks like some of you
chose to identify yourselves.
And then if you didn't, we just auto-generated
a username for you.
Thanks for participating in some of these questions.
You'll see the grade book report is essentially
just a compact table tracking rank grade participation
and then correctness.
So obviously any folks that got the answer correct
have a green X
and then any incorrect will have a red, a red X here.
We can do a few things with this report if we want to.
Obviously we can rename it.
We by default just list it as the title
of the question you can edit or change that if you want to.
We can add new activities to this report.
If without having to create a brand new report
we can add new activities to report on.
So maybe if there were two other reports
or questions that I presented that were graded
I can add those and factor those in.
We have to select run feature.
So I've presented this where as the heart
clickable image question many times as you can imagine.
So if I just wanted to report on today's results
I wouldn't have clicked on what I just clicked on.
So once this updates, current run is just the most recent
session for presenting that question.
So I'm just reporting
on today's presenting of the where's the hard question
but if I wanted to look historically is, you know,
Hey what does rank grade and participation
look like over the past?
You know, I don't know
maybe 150 times I presented this question.
I can use something like all runs as well
so we can get a bit more granular with more
historical reporting versus just current session reporting.
So we can use select runs for that.
It does tell me the participants that are associated
with this report does in terms of who participated
in these questions.
And obviously they're listed here
under the name field as well.
One of the interesting things here too, and I guess what
the team teaching use case in mind is, you know
let's say hypothetically, I was the instructor
and I shared questions with my teaching assistant
and I wanted to report on the questions that they presented
that I shared with them.
I can actually run a report on their behalf.
So let's say hypothetically, it was, you know, Dan Potito
plus one who is, you know, just another demo sub user
for me, I can run a report on their questions.
So they wouldn't even need to run a report
on the questions that they presented, you know
as the instructor and the share or collaborator
I can run a report on their behalf.
So that's kind of selecting presenter
or running reports, you know, either personally
or independently of other users in the account.
And then I can also change this report.
If I wanted to just show a different visualization
we can also download this report.
If we click download, we will have a CSV file.
And then if we click print, we can print to PDF.
Cool.
I'm going to circle back to our Q & A question
that's about all I had to cover in terms of planned content.
So I'm happy to open it up to the floor
whether it's just continuing to surface questions
through the Q & A
or happy to take some questions live too.
- [Woman] Right, and I focused on speak up
and ask a question.
Feel free to use the raise your hand feature.
And I can monitor, who's got a hand raised
- [Dan] See if there's anything new here in our Q&A
it doesn't look like it.
I hope that was sufficient.
In terms of the TA example
I've had to provide more clarity there if needed.
- Sounds great. It looks like Laura has a question.
- [Laura] So would students typically maintain an account
during their college years?
How would that interface work?
- [Dan] Yes.
If you are registering students
any students, any student that's registered
would have a participant account.
And that's an account they log into
with their university email address
in a Poll Everywhere specific password.
If you're using something like single sign-on
then they don't manage a Poll Everywhere password
that they'll just essentially sign in
with their existing UVM password credentials.
So it depends on the scenario.
Registered students will have an account,
unregistered students essentially just hit the response page
if and when questions are presented.
So unregistered no account,
registered they have an account.
- [Laura] Okay, thanks.
- [Dan] Yeah, and one of the benefits
obviously to registration like I mentioned,
is, you know, obviously when the students sign in, you know
we're able to identify that attribution point, right.
So, you know, for grading purposes, you know
those responses will essentially be tied back
to their UVM email.
And we can communicate that effectively
back to your learning management system.
We can download, like I said, like I showed before
with the grade book reports, we can download those to CSV.
So if you're not leveraging a direct integration
with an LMS, right, we would be following the manual import
with CSV, for roster import.
And then we can actually just export a CSV file
from the grade book report
and then push that back to the LMS.
So that's the manual workflow.
And then the more direct dynamic work flow would be
just a direct tie-in with learning management system.
- [Woman] Dan, I have a clarifying question
which I think is probably obvious, but it'll just help me.
I'm trying to think, but the workflow for an instructor.
So imagining that maybe teaching a class
I primarily using PowerPoint, I'm on a Mac.
So I would start in the
maybe in PowerPoint with my content slides
and then I would move to the Poll Everywhere desktop app
to be able to write the questions
and then send those to PowerPoint.
Is that right so far?
- [Dan] It is, you have the flexibility
to do that in either place.
Whether that's a poll everywhere.com here,
or within the PowerPoint app.
So the benefit of having the PowerPoint app
is we don't have to create those a second time.
If we create them in PowerPoint first
those will automatically be logged under the default folder
in poll everywhere.com and then you can move
and reorganize them how you'd like,
but we don't necessarily tie them to an existing group.
So you would need to organize a restructure
those if they belong in other places.
- Yep.
And when I'm teaching in class, Oh yeah.
When I'm teaching in class
and I've got my PowerPoint sort of in presentation mode
I can start the polling
right from the PowerPoint software, right?
- Yeah. Anytime you arrive at a Poll Everywhere
slide in PowerPoint, it'll automatically activate.
Yep. And it won't interfere with your pinned Q & A activity
just because, you know that's existing in the background
with no other interference on your Poll Everywhere content.
So that's usually just a kind
of getting started best practices.
If you are leveraging pinned activities is just
to kind of communicate, you know
how that changes accessing the system, right.
Hey, we're gonna be showing some questions, you know,
you'll see those in the activate tab, you know,
like we showed before.
And then, you know, I also have my pin activity,
which you'll see a little pin next to it on the right.
- And within the PowerPoint slide with
let's say a polling question.
I, from within the PowerPoint, like I'm in, you know
maximized presentation view in my PowerPoint
if I don't want to initially show the results
but then I do want to show the results to students.
Is that a setting I would have had to have selected
when I built the question
or is that something I can choose to do on the fly?
- [Dan] You can do on the fly
So either show responses or not.
It'll look very similar to this.
So show or hide responses.
One of the cool things is that if you're an administrator
you can set default poll settings.
So if you wanted by default for responses to not show
and it requires instructor intervention to show up,
to click show, you can do that.
You can essentially design questions to start
with not showing responses.
If you want it to pop your instructors can also
do that on the, on the user level as well.
If there's some questions where they absolutely
by default don't want to show responses,
but just want to have the opportunity to click show
when and if the time is right to do that.
So there is some control.
- And if I'm not displaying results to students is there...
I would need a second device to
be able to monitor, set up from the backend
what those responses look like, is that right?
- [Dan] So if you're hiding responses,
We're not showing them at all, but what you'll see
and something that you can actually toggle
in visual settings is total results.
So we can actually populate on the bottom and show you
the total number of results that have been received.
So you've got to see a number of starting to grow.
You won't see the results, but you'll start to see
how many responses have been received.
You know, one, et cetera
how quickly it response is funneling in
have responses stop coming in.
And if that's the case, maybe we're
at the point where we want to show results.
- Yep. So the instructor,
if results are hidden, neither students nor the instructor
can see those results.
- [Dan] That's correct.
- Okay, I think sometimes faculty liked to see the results
but not show them to students.
And so that's a little bit of a different system.
So just something for us to think about.
- [Dan] Got it.
- And then I think I confused that when I was talking
about sort of being in presentation mode and PowerPoint
I was thinking that's how most faculty are sort
of operating, but she says
is it true that polls only activate in presentation mode?
And that's probably not true.
Is that accurate?
- [Dan] You do need to be in slideshow mode
for them to auto activate.
- You did.
- Yes, you did,
- Great.
- Yep. So there isn't a manual step for clicking activate
just as long as you're in PowerPoint in slideshow mode
when you arrive on that poll, it will activate.
- I've been using Poll Everywhere
for actually more than four years
I realized four years at UVM, but before that as well
but always only the free account.
So the reporting is what makes me feel very excited
because at this point I just take screenshots
of all those slides to gather the data.
I'm like, Hey, that's the only way I can keep this.
And so one thing I want to share is
that as someone who has wanted to see results
I didn't want to hide the results for myself,
but I didn't want the students
to see the results immediately.
The only workaround I was able to come up with
was for spaces where you, you black out the screen.
Great. So you'd get them to and start answering
on their devices and you shut off the screen
and you can see on your computer what's coming in
and then choose whether to share that or not.
But I agree that it is a use.
It would be a useful thing to be able to see what
they're saying, having them not see what they're saying
and then make a choice about what to reveal that.
- Sure, Yeah.
No, that's understandable.
To be honest, I haven't...
that hasn't been raised.
I haven't heard that before, at least to that extent.
And that doesn't mean that we're not interested
in seeing if it's something that's worth exploring further.
Interesting. I'm not sure how we would approach that.
I'm not the product guy obviously
but that's useful feedback.
That's good to know.
Anything else just in general with your use over time
that's on your mind?
- I will name the students, faculty staff.
I, so I do trainings.
I do not heat in a classroom at UVM.
I do eligible or not, but I do trainings
and outside classroom educational opportunities
for students, faculty, and staff and everybody
has been a big fan.
In many ways, people find it very easy.
It's a really an easy interface for folks to engage with.
And students in particular
have always very much enjoyed the word clouds
and engaging Poll Everywhere.
- Cool. Yeah, Glad to hear that.
And yeah, there's a lot of things that are new
just kinda from an updates, you know
new things within Poll Everywhere.
And then just some general roadmap information.
You have to follow up with some of that info, just, you know
some things that are new that you may not be aware of
that you can take advantage of.
So I'll have to share that
in my follow-up to the extent it's helpful.
Any other questions?
I usually put up...
I was contemplating putting up a slide
asking you to rate your presenter.
Yeah, no, that was a mistake.
That kind of introduces risk of being rated really low too
but I hope you found today's session valuable.
I realized questions don't necessarily always come
up right in the moment.
So if there's anything after the fact that's pressing
or that you need some more information on, you know
I've certainly worked through Jen and Holly, I
and I can also provide them
with any necessary followup information.
If there are any other questions
I'm happy to be a resource.
- Thanks Dan.
Yes. Folks can absolutely be in touch with us
and we can connect to Dan.
All right.
Well, thank you everybody so much.
I will put the survey feedback survey link here in the chat
and we'll also send that via email.
So if you have, you know, just a few minutes
to share your reactions and your, you know
any qualitative thoughts that would be super
super helpful for us as we evaluate responses.
So I just put that in the chat now.
Thank you all so much.
Have a good afternoon.
And thank you Dan.
- Very welcome.
Yeah. Thanks
for taking some time to learn more about Poll Everywhere.
Stay safe.