Support articles
Detailed documentation and articles for using Poll Everywhere
Create & manage activities
Learn about creating activities and managing your content.
- Create an activity
- Multiple choice question
- Open-ended question
- Clickable image questions
- Ranking question
- Q&A
- Surveys
- Activity pages
- My Polls action buttons
- Competitions
- Groups
- Move or rearrange activities
- Import questions
- Move or copy activities between users
- Deleting activities
- Setting up Segmentation
Response settings
Settings for how your participants respond and interact with your activites.
- How people can respond
- Responses per participant
- Presenter session vs. Keywords
- SMS Text messaging
- Short number for text responses
- Website & Poll Everywhere mobile app
- Show/hide activity title
- Change answer
- Anonymous responses
- Send a custom reply message
- Locking and unlocking activities
- Testing your activity
- Competition settings
Presenting to an audience
How to control polls, surveys, and other activities while presenting.
Audience registration
Get the audience to share information about themselves for grading or reporting purposes.
Reporting
Aggregate activity responses after a presentation into reports.
Your Settings
Update your profile, change your password, and more.
Account management
Change settings, change your plan, add users, etc.
- Upgrade or downgrade plan
- Payment options
- Paying an invoice online via a credit card
- Viewing/printing receipts
- Update or remove credit card
- Adding sub-users
- Creating and assigning teams
- Purchase additional user licenses
- Participant screen names
- Template poll
- Single-sign-on for enterprise
- Install on Windows using command line
- Disabling web content in Poll Everywhere app for Windows
Sharing results & Publishing activities
Not presenting live? Share questions via links, social media or in a website.
Poll Everywhere for Windows
Present your activities in Windows PowerPoint
- Installing Poll Everywhere for Windows
- Inserting instructions slides with Poll Everywhere for Windows
- Inserting activities with Poll Everywhere for Windows
- Inserting a web page or video with Poll Everywhere for Windows
- Presenting your activities with Poll Everywhere for Windows
- Inserting activity screenshots on Windows
- Convert clicker-ready slides into Poll Everywhere activities
Poll Everywhere for Mac
Present your activities in PowerPoint or Keynote
- Installing Poll Everywhere for Mac
- Poll Everywhere for Mac works with PowerPoint and Keynote
- Inserting activities with Poll Everywhere for MacOS
- Inserting instructions slides with Poll Everywhere for Mac
- Inserting a web page or video with Poll Everywhere for Mac
- Presenting your activities with Poll Everywhere for Mac
- Inserting activity screenshots on a Mac
Poll Everywhere for Google Slides
Present your activities in Google Slides
Poll Everywhere for Office 365
Present your activities in Office 365
Poll Everywhere mobile app
Respond or manage your activities in the palm of your hand.
LMS integrations
Integrate a learning management system with Poll Everywhere.
- Setting up LMS integration
- Importing students from Blackboard, Brightspace, or Canvas
- Importing students from Moodle
- Importing students from Sakai
- Export graded responses into Blackboard, Brightspace, and Canvas
- Export graded responses into Moodle and Sakai
- Embed activities in Blackboard
- Embed activities in Canvas
Power user features
Advanced features and hacks that help you squeeze even more out of Poll Everywhere.
- Hide correct response history
- Format poll titles with HTML
- Math equations and science formulas
- Edit multiple polls
- Weighted grading
- Copying activities using the URL
- Resize an activity in the Poll Everywhere Presentation apps
- Remove "Powered by PollEverywhere.com" footer on reply text messages
- Register participants without an email address
General troubleshooting
Solutions to possible problems
Troubleshooting for Windows
Working through issues unique to Windows PowerPoint
- Installing Poll Everywhere using the MSI
- No Poll Everywhere tab in Windows PowerPoint
- Repair the Poll Everywhere for Windows PowerPoint app
- Windows Powerpoint add-ins conflict with Poll Everywhere app
- Activities spilling off the presentation screen
- Activities don't appear on screen
- Windows Powerpoint add-ins Read-Only and Protected view errors
Troubleshooting for Mac
Working through issues unique to Mac PowerPoint
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