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Poll Everywhere

Tool Overview:

Poll Everywhere is a polling tool that can be used to create multiple-choice, open-ended, clickable images, Q&A, ranking, and survey activities to measure audience participation both synchronously and asynchronously

Category: Assessment and Feedback Audience Response Brainstorming Collaboration Course Management Data Analysis Mind Mapping
Pedagogical Uses: Blended Learning Collaborative Learning Gamification Interactive Learning Micro Learning Online Learning Peer Learning Project-Based Learning Research
Queen's Security Assessment completed: Yes
Link to Tool: Poll Everywhere

Availability: Asynchronous Browser-based Desktop app Mobile app Mobile-friendly Synchronous

Advantages:

  • Create different types of polling activities for different purposes/for different stages of the learning sequence (ex., prior knowledge or synthesis knowledge check)
  • Customize how the audience responds (anonymous or name required) and how many times they can respond
  • Moderation settings to filter profanity and emojis
  • Ability to preview and test polls before activating
  • Add-on to embed directly in PowerPoint slides
  • Can share using embed code so students can respond and view results all within the course webpage
  • Visual settings to customize colours, fonts, background, and display features

Limitations:

  • PowerPoint integration for Mac can be temperamental
  • When embedding activities in a D2L content page can cause issues with navigation jumping down the page to the activity
  • Very limited options in the free version
  • The default setting deactivates activities after one day
  • Responses to word cloud activity will treat each word as a separate response, so the response "backward design" would show backward and design as two separate responses

This tool is available to: Free/Subscription Required, Student license must be purchased

This tool can be integrated with: LMS Integration

Gradebook Integration: N/A

Gradebook can be exported: Yes

Classlist full integration with onQ: Yes

Class roster and groups need to be updated manually if onQ changes: No

 

WCAG 2.0 Compliance
wcag2 - Yes Icon Level AA

  • All users can convey information as per Universal Design For Learning guidelines in a variety of formats.

    The facilitator/instructor has access to a variety of different polling tools, including multiple choice, free-form text-based, and image-based.

    The student is limited to answering the poll via the pre-selected method of the individual question type.

  • Some users can customize the display of information in multiple ways as per UDL guidelines.

    The facilitator/instructor can customize the colour of the background, header/footer, buttons, and text using a hex code or RGBA.

    The administrator can set a default for all registered facilitators.

  • No tool features allow for individual accommodation settings

Some tool features are compatible with screen readers

Alt text is supported on images in this tool.

VPAT is unclear - they say "partially support" at A level for 1.1.1 Non-text Content, but the remarks are unclear as to what they do or don't support.

Caption Features Availability
For Live Video Live captions - No Icon No
For Recorded Video Recorded video captions - Yes Icon Yes
Are Automatically Generated Automatically generated captions - Yes Icon Yes
Are Editable Editable captions - No Icon No

Navigation Features Availability
Keyboard Keyboard Nav - Partial Icon Some Features
Mouse Mouse Nav - Yes Icon Yes

Support available through: Vendor Support

For Support, visit: Poll Everywhere Support

To view the tool's privacy policy, see: Poll Everywhere Privacy