There's lots to love about Poll Everywhere

But wait, there's more!

Use any cellphone (SMS), smartphone, laptop, desktop, or tablet

A web-based product enables some wonderful benefits

• Live, real-time, animated charts update based on your students' responses right in PowerPoint or Keynote within your regular class slides with the PollEv Presenter app
• It works on every device: Students can use cellphones, smartphones, laptops, or tablets, even "feature phones"
• Present straight from the web if you don't want to install an app
• No waiting for fixes or updates
• No pain of setting up hardware and installing drivers

Save students money with inexpensive instructor and student plans.

It doesn't cost a dime to try us out in a small scale test.

But when you're ready for more, Poll Everywhere is less than 1/10th the cost of a similar sized clicker plan. Plans exist for individual instructors as well as per-student priced plans for departments and entire campuses.

For comparison, clicker systems (also known as Student Response Systems [ SRS ] or Classroom Response Systems [ CRS ]) average $25-$45 per semester for student rental or purchase.

Learn more about our plans and pricing

Get Your Class' Attention Immediately, and Easily

You can set up Poll Everywhere in less than an hour; and get your students' attention instantly.

Instructors prefer Poll Everywhere because:

• There's no clunky hardware to set up or pair.
• Saves their students money.
• Eliminates "pocket clicking" from absent students.
• New features ship nearly every week.
• It works on any web or mobile device. Stop worrying about software upgrades.
• Instead of texting or being distracted on their laptop, students follow along with you.

Students prefer Poll Everywhere because:

• They can have a voice. Some instructors poll the class to find out what section to cover next; to vote on a movie to see, or just to give the shy student a chance to earn participation points.
• Their responses can be reviewed later.
• There is no need to replace batteries or buy a separate device. Clickers usually cost $35-$50 at the campus bookstore; easily the cost of one month of a smartphone data plan
• Never forgotten: students also have a much greater likelihood to attend class and to remember to bring their phone/laptop with them.

We do things that clicker systems can't

Open-ended answers and moderation to name a few...

• The physical limitations of clickers make longer answers cumbersome. Messaging and smart phone/keyboards make it easy to ask for a longer response.
• With free text/open ended polls, it is now possible to create word clouds, create a platform for large group brainstorming sessions and expose students' opinions more honestly. The ability to rapidly critique and discuss open-ended topics leads to richer thinking.
• You can set responses to anonymous so the students feel safer engaging on controversial subjects; or register your students and grade their responses. Track classes over time.
• Segment your students and have them compete against each other in a race or contest. Everyone sees who won in real time.

Support you can count on

We know that you need your classroom response system to WORK. And if it doesn't, you need to talk to someone, pronto. Most web services don't offer support--they make you have to beg for it. Although our software is self-service, proven and simple, with lots of instructions and how-to videos, we understand that people might need help. Most people find answers in the frequently asked questions but we also offer telephone and email support. When you buy a higher ed plan from us you get FREE phone support during normal business hours; or email us for a response within 1 business day.

Share Best Practices

In a single account, such as a university or college with many faculty using the tool, it is convenient for instructors teaching the same courses to swap and share their questions and content with each other by searching and browsing one another's questions and surveys.

You also have access to any polls the creator sets to public, so you can search to see what other instructors are polling on.