Frequently Asked Questions

Engaging your students with live polling software is a great way to get instant feedback on a question. Poll Everywhere is an easy-to-use classroom audience response system that allows users to provide their answers via phones, tablets, or computers.

Questions can be multiple-choice, open-ended, or clickable image questions. Watch this quick video from PollEverywhere to see how it can be used.

Some of the simple benefits of using polling software include:

• Being able to see which questions in your class deserve more attention. If the class is heavily split on their answer, this is a good time to allow the class to discuss amongst themselves to see if their ideas and answers will change.
• Allowing your students the ability to be anonymous in the answers. There are a number of topics that are difficult to discuss. By providing anonymity still gives students a voice in the classroom.
• Providing an avenue for creating topics for discussion. Not that this has ever happened to me, but do you ever have a class that is a little on the quiet side? Bueller? Bueller?

The polling questions are easily created inside of www.polleverywhere.com. Polls can be run either through online software or through PowerPoint. There is a small app that can be added to PowerPoint that makes it easy to embed any of your polling questions. Feedback on the screen can be viewed in a number of ways including text walls, word clouds, and tickers.

Poll Everywhere is often used outside of Carthage as well. A number of faculty have used it during conference presentations to engage their audience during the warm-up time or during select points in their presentation that merit response.

Our current license allows you to have up to 600 participants in a session! To get started, please email Chris Grugel at cgrugel@carthage.edu. He will set up an account for you and answer any questions in creating your polls.

For this and other instructional technologies, visit http://libguides.carthage.edu/it