Overview
Title: Poll Everywhere
Developer: Poll Everywhere, Inc.
Version: 4.2
Software Summary: PowerPoint polling and activity utility
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Instructions
Poll Everywhere is a useful PowerPoint activity utility that allows you to poll and engage your students as you instruct them. On occasion, you may run into issues where the "instruction" set of your slide may not show properly, and the questions or activity refuses to activate, no matter what you've tried. If you are running into this issue, please continue reading to see how to resolve it.
Sample images of the issue:
Sample 1: Good instruction set.
Sample 2: Missing Instruction Set
If you view the two instruction sets above, you can see how the good one has a website and QR code available. When these get cut off, like in the second sample picture, students will be unable to access your activity, and your activity may potentially be locked out, making it fully non-interactable.
To fix this issue, please try the three different processes below:
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Process 1:
- With any of your PowerPoint slide-shows open, go to the Poll Everywhere tab at the top
Image 1: Arrow showing location of Poll Everywhere tab within PowerPoint.
- Click on the Settings button for a drop-down menu. Within that drop-down menu, click on the Display button.
Image 2: Picture showing the Settings button and the Display button.
- A new window should open up named Autofit Settings. In that window is a check-box called "Enable Force Autofit". Make sure that box is checked. You want it active. Once done, click on Save and try your Poll Everywhere activities again.
Image 3: Example of the Force Autofit window and check-box.
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Process 2
- With your PowerPoint slide-show open, go to the Poll Everywhere tab.
Image 4: Arrow showing location of Poll Everywhere tab within PowerPoint.
- Click on the Activities button.
Image 5: Picture showing where the Activities button is located.
- With the activities window open, navigate to the question you are having issues with.
- Ensure the question is active. It should have a green radial icon as well as a green dot next to that activity.
- Please note that only one activity can be active at a time. This is by design to keep your students with you on the activity list. Activities should automatically activate as you get to each one.
Image 6: Picture showing what an active activity should look like.
- Give your activity a try again. This may require closing and re-opening your PowerPoint slide-show to get the activity to activate fully.
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Process 3
Each activity has a slightly hidden option that allows the use of web access and text access. Sometimes these may get toggled off through a myriad of ways. This will describe how to fix each individual activity, and then how to change all of your activities at once, if needed.
Part 1:
- In your PowerPoint slide-show, navigate to the Poll Everywhere tab at the top.
Image 7: Arrow showing location of Poll Everywhere tab within PowerPoint.
- Click on the Activities button.
Image 8: Picture showing where the Activities button is located.
- Find the activity you want to make a change to and click on it.
- In the activity editor, look for the Edit button and click on it.
Image 9: Picture showing the Edit button within the activity editor.
- A side-bar should open on the right side. Scroll down until you find the "How people can respond" section. Within that section is a "From the web" toggle. Activate this toggle.
Image 10: Picture showing the "From the web" toggle.
- Click Save after toggling this option on. You can now close the activity browser.
- Click on the Sync button on your Poll Everywhere tab within your slide-show. Give the activity a try again to see if the instruction set appears and students are able to answer.
Image 11: Picture showing the Sync button.
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Part 2:
- Navigate to the Poll Everywhere website through a web browser (Edge, Chrome, Firefox, etc.). https://www.polleverywhere.com/
- Ensure you click the log in button and that you are actively logged in.
- Once logged in, look to the left side-bar and click on the bar graph icon labelled Activities.
Image 12: Picture showing the Activities button in the web browser.
- While viewing all of your activities and activity folders, click the check-box at the top of the activities, right next to the Order button. This should check all of your activities at the same time.
Image 13: Picture showing the required check-box to check, as well as all activities selected by that check-box.
- On the same row as that top check-box should be a More button with three dots next to it. Click on it and click Configure.
Image 14: Picture showing the More button and the Configure button.
- In the Configure window that opens up, near the bottom, should be two items: "Enable response method override" and "Web devices at PollEV.com/USERNAME". You need to ensure both of these items are toggled on and checked so that they are active.
Image 15: Picture showing both the toggle and check-box that are required.
- Once both items are checked, click on the Done button. This will have modified all of them to enable web access at the minimum.
- Click on the Sync button on your Poll Everywhere tab within your slide-show. Give any activity a try again to see if the instruction set appears and students are able to answer.
Image 16: Picture showing the Sync button.
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