Poll Everywhere is a free application for interactive audience participation. Integrate Poll Everywhere slides into your PowerPoint presentation to embed questions and surveys.
“Poll Everywhere is a simple application that works well for live audiences using mobile devices like phones. People participate by visiting a fast mobile-friendly web page for your event or sending text messages. Instructions are displayed on-screen. The poll that is embedded within the presentation or web page will update in real time.”
“Poll Everywhere is a simple application that works well for live audiences using mobile devices like phones. People participate by visiting a fast mobile-friendly web page for your event or sending text messages. Instructions are displayed on-screen. The poll that is embedded within the presentation or web page will update in real time.”
More information on the proper use of the TRM can be found on the TRM Proper Use Tab/Section. Website: Go to site. Description: Poll Everywhere PollEv Presenter Application (App) is an audience response system that integrates with Microsoft PowerPoint to allow Poll Everywhere functionality for conducting audience polls to be integrated into PowerPoint Presentations. This is the place to be if you're trying to participate in a live poll.
How to create Poll Everywhere questions
Open and login to Poll Everywhere (or create a free account). Click the red Create button to create your activities (questions).
- Choose the type of activity (Multiple choice, etc.) and type the questions and possible answers.
- Detailed directions to Create an Activity (questions) are here.
- Note: If you create a survey, the questions in the survey will show in PowerPoint as one slide. If you create a survey but want the questions on different slides, hover over the title of the survey in your poll and choose Convert to Group.
How to add your questions to a PowerPoint
- To generate PowerPoint slides that can be added to or dragged into existing presentations, you need to be logged into either the Poll Everywhere Add-In or the Poll Everywhere App.
- Method 1: Poll Everywhere Add-In
- Go to a PowerPoint menu, click on Insert > Add-Ins > Get Add-Ins. Type Pollev in the search box. Install Poll Everywhere Add-In.
- A PowerPoint slide will open with a login window for your Add-In. Log in. Make sure you log into this PollEv Presenter Add-in before you present. The add-in activates your polls within PowerPoint or Keynote.
- Method 2: Poll Everywhere Mac App
- Download and login to the Poll Everywhere app – download instructions here.
- Slides can be added from the Mac App, but just ignore.
- Method 1: Poll Everywhere Add-In
- The next step is to Go to your My Polls page online and check the boxes next to the polls or groups of polls you want to use.
- Now click Download > Download Slides at the top of the page.
- Open your downloads and find the presentation.pptx file. Right-click to open the download with either PowerPoint or Keynote.
- A PowerPont will open with your questions as placeholder slides, see below:
- The placeholder slides can be rearranged, dragged to another presentation, or additional regular presentation slides can be added.
- Please note: The questions in your PowerPoint are screenshots of the question, with the written question in the presenter notes. Do not delete these! The question will appear correctly in presentation mode.
How to present your PowerPoint and conduct your Poll
Detailed presentation instructions are here.
- Quick directions
- Activities (questions) are activated and displayed from PowerPoint in Presentation Mode. Select Slide Show > Play from Start or Current Slide.
- When the Poll Everywhere Activity slide is presented, it will be unlocked and ready to receive responses. Navigating away from the slide will close responses.
- The Audience can respond via website or text. When the activity is presented on the screen, the question will appear at the top, and underneath are ways to respond. An example is below:
How to use the poll question responses in a presentation
Pollev Presenter App Mac Pro
How to insert screenshots of audience responses into your PowerPoint are here.
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With Poll Everywhere for Mac, you can seamlessly present your Poll Everywhere activities in your PowerPoint or Keynote presentations by embedding them as a slide.
To embed activities into your presentation, you’ll need to install the Poll Everywhere for MacOS app. You can visit the System requirements page to make sure your computer meets the minimum requiremnets.
Installation instructions
Pollev Presenter App Mac Free
Make sure that the Poll Everywhere for MacOS app is installed on the presentation computer if that will be different than the one you create your presentation on. Check out the article on presenting activities with Poll Everywhere for Mac for more information.
Step 1: Download the Poll Everywhere for MacOS app.
Step 2: Install Poll Everywhere for MacOS app by opening the pollev.dmg file you downloaded, then drag the PollEv Presenter icon into your Applications folder.
Step 3: Open the PollEv Presenter app from your applications folder and log in to your account (if you don’t yet have an account, there is also an option to sign up for one on the app login screen). Music app keeps opening on mac.
After you log in, the Poll Everywhere for MacOS app opens in it’s own window separate from PowerPoint or Keynote. When the app is running, the Poll Everywhere icon will be visible in your dock. If the app window gets buried, clicking the Poll Everywhere icon in your dock will bring it back to the front.
Now that you have the Poll Everywhere for MacOS app installed you are ready to start inserting activities into your presentations.
Further resources
The following pages provide information on app releases and describe how we support aging technology. https://everfly577.weebly.com/blog/plastic-app-for-mac.