Poll Everywhere

You must use your @cunet.carleton.ca account. If you have already created a Poll Everywhere account with a different email address (even an @carleton.ca address), you can update the address to your @cunet.carleton.ca email in your account settings. You will not be able to integrate Poll Everywhere activities into Brightspace unless you are using the same email account in Brightspace and Poll Everywhere.  

As an instructor, you are automatically enrolled in Carleton’s licensed account. This gives you access to a presenter account. Poll Everywhere at Carleton has moved to Single Sign On (SSO). You are able to login to Poll Everywhere using your Carleton MC1 credentials. This means that you can use your @cunet account to login to Poll Everywhere. You can sign in at polleverywhere.com/login. You can also access Poll Everywhere from within your D2L Brightspace course.

Single Sign On with MyCarletonOne occurs automatically.  When logging in at polleverywhere.com, use your @cunet email address and password. If you have already logged in somewhere with your MC1 account, you will automatically be logged in to Poll Everywhere too. If you have not already authenticated, just follow the normal MC1 login process for other Carleton applications.

Your TAs can request a Poll Everywhere Presenter account by contacting TLS Poll Everywhere Support. If you have questions about using Poll Everywhere, you can contact TLS through this support portal as well.

To link your accounts, you need to synchronize your class list in Brightspace to your Poll Everywhere Account.  For instructions, see Import/Synchronize your Class Roster.

If you are not tracking the poll for attendance or grading, you do not have to link the poll to Brightspace for students to participate. If you are tracking the poll for attendance or grading, you need to link your poll everywhere account to your Brightspace course.

See Grading Poll Everywhere Activities for instructions.

No, the grading results of Poll Everywhere activities are not automatically added into Brightspace Gradebook. You must manually export your grades from Poll Everywhere to Brightspace. Once you have completed the export process in PE and your Poll Everywhere activity is properly linked with your Brightspace gradebook, a grade item will automatically be added to the gradebook. For instructions, see Grading Poll Everywhere Activities.

You must be in presentation mode for a Poll Everywhere activity to activate. The most consistently stable app for Poll Everywhere is the web application. We strongly recommend you primarily use the Poll Everywhere web app as it does not have any issues with display, rendering of equations, and synchronization of responses. Poll everywhere works well with a variety of presentation applications. However, this functionality is dependent on many factors including the device used, software versions, updates, etc.  Poll Everywhere activities could fail to function correctly for any of these reasons. In these cases, please use the web application, and if the issue persists, contact the Poll Everywhere support team at support@polleverywhere.com.

For support using Poll Everywhere in Brightspace visit the TLS Support Portal and enter a Poll Everywhere Support request.

Poll Everywhere supports the following internet browsers:

• Chrome (version 79 or later)
• Safari (version 13 or later)
• Firefox (version 78 or later)
• Edge (version 81 or later)

For more information, see the Poll Everywhere Supported Browsers page.

You can use Poll Everywhere to run graded and ungraded activities. Students only need to be registered  if you are running graded activities or activities where you want to track participation. Ungraded polls do not require registration. Graded polls or polls that are used to track attendance or participation in class require that students be registered in the instructor’s Poll Everywhere account. Students are registered when the instructor synchronizes the classlist to the participant list in their Poll Everywhere account. For information on how to Sync your classlist, please see the Sync/Import your Class Roster guide.

No, the grading results of Poll Everywhere activities are not automatically added into Brightspace Gradebook . You must manually export your grades from Poll Everywhere to Brightspace. 

Once you have completed the export process in Poll Everywhere and your Poll Everywhere activity is properly linked with your Brightspace gradebook, a grade item will automatically be added to the gradebook. It will appear as the last grade item in the list, so you will need to move it to its proper location through the Manage Grades tab in Brightspace.  

When you export your PE grades to Brightspace, a new grade item will appear at the bottom of your grade items list. Check to confirm the grade has been exported there.  

If you do not see the new PE grade item in your gradebook, follow the steps to Sync/Import your Roster to Poll Everywhere. If you have imported your class list in the past, you only need to follow the procedure to Sync the roster. Once you have have Imported/Synced your roster, you can Export a Poll Everywhere Gradebook Report to Brightspace.

If you reuse an earlier graded activity within Poll Everywhere rather than creating a new one, results from that activity will update a pre-existing grade item in Brightspace. You must create a new activity in Poll Everywhere for each graded poll.