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STEP-BY-STEP POLL EVERYWHERE HOW-TO:     

1. Request a Poll Everywhere account from The Office for Teaching Excellence and discuss best uses for your class. As of Fall, 2014, the JHUSON has purchased and institutional license that allow individual instructors to use Poll Everywhere in any or all of the courses that they are teaching without limitations.

2. Create your poll – log into Poll Everywhere and click on “My Polls” at the top of the screen, then click “Create New Poll” in the top left-hand corner.

3. Enter in your poll question, and hit the ‘return’ or ‘enter’ key on your keyboard.

4. Now you are given the opportunity to convert your question to multiple choice, or keep it as a free text question. If you are creating a multiple choice question, click ‘convert to multiple choice’ and type in your choices, then hit ‘continue’.

5. If you would like to use a keyword for responses, instead of the numerical code automatically assigned, click ‘edit’ under the big ‘stop poll’ button at the right of the screen. Click ‘customize this keyword’ to type in the keyword you’d like to use. Then press “save poll” at the bottom.

6. To download the poll as a Power Point slide on a Mac, you will need to download Mac Presenter, the link for this is underneath the ‘download as slide’ button at the right of the screen. Click to download, and then you will need to install the Poll Everywhere app by dragging the chart icon into your applications folder. Open the Poll Everywhere app from your applications folder and it will ask you to pick a poll. Use the drop down menu to select the poll you’d like to embed in your Power Point Presentation. If you click on your poll, a bar will appear at the bottom. Select the P+ icon to insert the poll into the current slide in your PowerPoint presentation (You will need to make sure you have Power Point open to the slide in which you are inserting your poll).

7. Prepare to use it the first time by testing it out with support staff before class begins.

8. Prepare students – let them know how they may respond to the poll (text or via website). Start out with a low stakes poll so they can learn to do it with less stress. If there are any problems with students voting during the test poll, address these issues so that the next time students will be able to focus on the question and not how to vote.

9. Troubleshooting: for more detailed explanations of issues not covered here, see Poll Everywhere’s Help and FAQ page here: http://www.polleverywhere.com/faq  

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