Poll Everywhere has been updated!
Poll Everywhere is a real-time polling application that provides easy integration of informal assessments in to class activities. Informal assessments allow faculty to check students’ understanding of learning activities and assess the direction of instruction. Check out more information about the new features by visiting the Poll Everywhere blog.
New features:
- Your students can use intuitive response formats like letters, numbers, short text, and open-response so that you do not have to use long, auto-generated response codes.
- Ranking polls offers the ability to capture student knowledge of hierarchical knowledge of concepts.
- New visual settings for polls allows you to customize the look and feel of the poll.
- Configure, test, and preset polls while still in edit mode. It offers capacity to capture audience experience.
- Presenter remote is a mobile device based remote designed to advance PowerPoint slides and does not require any additional download as it is browser based on the Poll Everywhere website.
- You can now insert instructional images into polling questions.
Contact the MIT Service Desk to request a Poll Everywhere account. Learn more about incorporating Poll Everywhere into your classroom by scheduling a consultation with ITDS staff . Click here for a sample of how polling can be incorporated in the classroom and turn your classroom in to an active classroom!