1. Link your Poll Everywhere Account to your Brightspace Course
  2. Sync/Import your Class Roster
  3. Creating Poll Everywhere Activities
    1. Create a New Poll Everywhere Activity
    2. Restrict your Poll Everywhere Activity to Registered Participants
  4. Present the Activity in Poll Everywhere During your Class.  
  5. Edit a Poll Everywhere Activity
  6. Grading Poll Everywhere Activities
    1. Create a Gradebook Report in Poll Everywhere
    2. Export a Poll Everywhere Gradebook Report to Brightspace
    3. Create a Grade Category
    4. Move Poll Everywhere Grade Items to a Grade Category in Brightspace
    5. Embedding Poll Everywhere Activities in Brightspace using Embed Scripts
    6. Embedding Poll Everywhere Activities in Brightspace using Response Links
  7. FAQ
  8. Need Help Using Poll Everywhere? 

Poll Everywhere is a real-time, polling tool that allows you to get instant feedback from your students. You can use Poll Everywhere by itself, or you can use it within Brightspace.

You can log in to Poll Everywhere using Single Sign-On (SSO) with your MyCarletonOne (MC1) account. 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.

If you are running graded Poll Everywhere activities or tracking attendance/participation, you will need to link your Poll Everywhere Account to your Brightspace Course and Import/Sync your Course Roster.

Getting Started with Poll Everywhere

Link your Poll Everywhere Account to your Brightspace Course
If you are tracking student participation, attendance, or creating graded activities, you will need to link you Poll Everywhere Account to your Brightspace course.
  1. Log in to Brightspace with your MyCarletonOne credentials.
  2. On the Brightspace homepage, locate your course in one of the following ways:
    • Click on your course tile under the My Courses widget.
    • Click the Course Selector Grid  and select your course from the drop-down menu. If you are enrolled in more than 20 courses, you can search for the course name using the search bar.
  3. Click Content in your course navbar.
  4. In the Table of Contents sidebar, click the module where you would like to add Poll Everywhere to your course.      
  5. Click the Existing Activities button.
  6. In the drop-down menu, select External Learning Tools.
  7. In the Add Activity window, select Poll Everywhere Link. A Poll Everywhere link will be added to the module.
  8. Click the arrow next to the link and select Hide from Users.

NOTE: You do not need to create a new PollEverywhere link in each module. The link is created only once for the whole course.  

Sync/Import your Class Roster
Instructors can import their Brightspace course rosters into Poll Everywhere to automatically register each student as a Poll Everywhere participant. Once the class register has been imported, students that do not have a Poll Everywhere account will receive an auto-generated email asking them to create one. The class list can be re-synced at any time to update the roster. If you are tracking student participation, attendance, or creating graded activities, you need to import/synchronize your Brightspace classlist to your Poll Everywhere account.

  1. Click the Poll Everywhere link in your course module or go to polleverywhere.com/login.
  2. Log in with your username and password. If you are logging in via the Poll Everywhere link in Brightspace, you will be prompted to click Continue to brightspace.carleton.ca.                 
  3. Click Sync roster. Your roster will automatically start importing. Students who do not have a Poll Everywhere account will receive an email with instructions to create one using their cmail account. 
  4. Click Go to Participants page to view the list of students that were imported.

Creating Poll Everywhere Activities

Once you have linked your Poll Everywhere account to your Brightspace course and synced your class roster, you can begin creating Poll Everywhere activities.

You can create the following activity types in Poll Everywhere:

Create a New Poll Everywhere Activity
NOTE: Before creating a new Poll Everywhere activity, make sure to link your Poll Everywhere account to your Brightspace course and sync your class roster.
  1. Log in to Poll Everywhere using your MyCarletonOne username (@cunet email) and password.
  2. Click the Activity button on your Home screen , or your Activities screen
  3. You can now create your activity. See Poll Everywhere’s Create an activity guide for step-by-step instructions.         

Once you have created your Poll Everywhere activity, you can restrict your activity to registered participants so that only students who are registered to your course roster can participate.

Restrict your Poll Everywhere Activity to Registered Participants
Once you have created a poll everywhere activity, you can restrict the activity so that only students who are registered to your course roster in Poll Everywhere can participate.

NOTE: Before presenting your activity, we recommend syncing your roster.  Once the roster is synchronized, students that do not have a Poll Everywhere account will be prompted to create one via their cmail account and they will be automatically added to your course roster in Poll Everywhere. 

  1. Log in to Poll Everywhere using your MyCarletonOne username (@cunet email) and password.
  2. Click Activities in the left menu.
  3. On your My Activities page, click the three dots next to the activity you want to restrict.
  4. Select edit from the drop-down menu.
  5. In the right panel, click Audience restriction & identity.
  6. Under Who can participate?, select Restrict to Registered Participants only. 
  7. Click Save.

Present the Activity in Poll Everywhere During your Class.  
See How to Present a Poll from the Web for instructions.

Edit a Poll Everywhere Activity
  1. Log in to Poll Everywhere using your MyCarletonOne username (@cunet email) and password.
  2. Click Activities in the sidebar.
  3. On the My Activities page, click the three dots next to your activity.
  4. Select edit from the drop-down menu.
  5. Make your changes.
  6. Click Save.

Grading Poll Everywhere Activities

Once students have responded to your Poll, you can create a gradebook report for your Poll Everywhere activities and export the participation data/grades to your course gradebook in Brightspace. You can then create a grade category to group and sort your Poll Everywhere grade items in your gradebook.

Create a Gradebook Report in Poll Everywhere
  1. Log in to Poll Everywhere using your MyCarletonOne username (@cunet email) and password.
  2. Click Reports in the sidebar.
  3. Click the Create report button.                                                     
  4. In the Gradebook report pop-up window, select the following:
    1. Select Gradebook.                                                                                               
    2. Click Continue.
    3. Click the My Activities folder to expand a list of your Poll Everywhere activities.
    4. Select the activity you want to grade.
    5. Click Create Report. You will now see the report for the selected Poll Everywhere activity.
      TIP: You can rename the report by clicking the Rename link to the right of the activity name at the top of the page.

You have now created a Poll Everywhere Report. In order to sync the grades with your Brightspace course, you will need to export the report to Brightspace.

Export a Poll Everywhere Gradebook Report to Brightspace
Export a gradebook report to Brightspace to create a grade item for your Poll Everywhere activity.

  1. Log in to Poll Everywhere using your MyCarletonOne username (@cunet email) and password.
  2. Click Reports in the sidebar.
  3. Click the title of the report you want to export.                                                     
  4. In the panel on the right side of the page, click Export.
  5. In the export report pop-up window, select the following:
    1. Select your course from the drop-down menu.
    2. Select whether you want to export the grade or participation.
    3. Click Next.
  6. An Export Complete window will appear once the report has finished loading. Click Close.

Poll Everywhere will send the grades or participation to your gradebook in your Brightspace course. It will appear as a new grade item with the exported grades or participation added. Your report will have the same title as your activity and that will be the title of the grade item that is exported to Brightspace. You can change that title to reflect the grade item title you want in your gradebook, e.g. the date you are taking attendance.  

Create a Grade Category
Create a grade category to group your Poll Everywhere grade items
  1. Log in to Brightspace using your MyCarletonOne credentials. 
  2. On the Brightspace homepage, locate your course in one of the following ways:
      • Click on the course tile under the My Courses widget.
      • Click the Course Selector Grid  and select the course from the drop-down menu. If you are enrolled in more than 20 courses, you can search for the course name using the search bar.
  3. In the navbar, click Progress.
  4. In the drop-down menu, select Grades.  
  5. Click the Manage Grades tab.
  6. Click the New button.
  7. In the drop-down menu, select Category.
  8. On the New Category page, configure your category settings under the following headings:
    • General
      1. Enter a name for your category (i.e. Poll Everywhere).
      2. If your Category name is complex, you can choose to add a Short Name which will appear in the grade spreadsheet.  
      3. To add a description (optional) for the category, click Show Description to enter a description in the HTML editor.
    • Grading
      NOTE: The settings under the grade heading will differ depending on whether you have set up your gradebook using a weighted or points grade calculation system.
      • If your gradebook is set up using a weighted system:
        1. Enter a weight for the category. Brightspace defaults to a weight of 10. Check the option of allow the category grade to exceed the category weight if needed.
        2. Select one of the following Distribution options:
          • Manually assign weight to items in the category – Choose this option if the grade items in your category will have different weights.
          • Distribute weight by points across all items in the category – Choose this option to distribute the weight according to the number of points given for each item in the category.
          • Distribute weight evenly across all items –  Choose this option to make all grade items in your category evenly weighted. You can enable Brightspace to automatically drop the highest or lowest grade items in the category by entering the number of non-bonus items to drop for each user (optional).
            NOTE: the default is for you to manually assign weight to each item in the category.
      • If your gradebook is set up using a points system:
        1. Select Distribute points across all items.
        2. Enter the number of points per item. 
  9. Adjust display options as desired.
  10. Click Save and Close. 

Your grade category will now appear in blue under the “Manage Grades” tab of your gradebook (see example of an “Assignments” grade category below.           

Move Poll Everywhere Grade Items to a Grade Category in Brightspace
Once you have created a grade category, you can move the Poll Everywhere grade items into the category.
  1. Log in to Brightspace using your MyCarletonOne credentials. 
  2. On the Brightspace homepage, locate your course in one of the following ways:
      • Click on the course tile under the My Courses widget.
      • Click the Course Selector Grid  and select the course from the drop-down menu. If you are enrolled in more than 20 courses, you can search for the course name using the search bar.
  3. In the navbar, click Progress. 
  4. In the drop-down menu, select Grades. 
  5. Click the Manage Grades tab. 
  6. Select the checkboxes next to the grade items you want to add to the Poll Everywhere category.
  7. Click Bulk Edit.                   
  8. On the Edit Items and Categories page, scroll to the Category column and select the category you have created for your Poll Everywhere activities.
  9. Click Save.

Your new Poll Everywhere activities will now appear below on the Manage Grades page.                                            

Embedding Poll Everywhere Activities in Brightspace using Embed Scripts

  1. Log in to Poll Everywhere using your MyCarletonOne username (@cunet email) and password.
  2. Click Activities in the sidebar.
  3. Click on the name of the Activity you wish to embed.
  4. On the right panel, click on Send.                                                                 
  5. Select Share and embed.                                               
  6. Click Copy the embed script.                                                                       
  7. Log in to Brightspace using your MyCarletonOne credentials. 
  8. Go to your course and create a submodule.
  9. Click on the new module you just created from the left panel. You will then be able to edit the module description.
  10. Click on Add description to open the html editor.
  11. Click on the Add stuff icon in the editor and select Enter Embed Code.
  12. Paste the code into the field and make sure to click Allow when prompted.
  13. Click Next to preview the activity.
  14. Click Insert.
  15. Click Update at the bottom of the screen.

Your students will now be able to participate in the poll directly from the sub-module in Brightspace.

NOTE: Make sure you embed a different code for each poll. If you paste the same code, the grades or participation credit will update a pre-existing grade item rather than creating a new one.

Embedding Poll Everywhere Activities in Brightspace using Response Links

  1. Log in to Brightspace using your MyCarletonOne credentials. 
  2. In your course, create a submodule for each week you want students to respond to the poll.
  3. Click on the module you created from the left panel in the table of contents
  4. Click on the field add a description underneath the title of the module and add a description for this module/activity.
  5. Log in to Poll Everywhere using your MyCarletonOne username (@cunet email) and password.
  6. Click Activities in the sidebar.
  7. Click on the name of the Activity you wish to embed.
  8. On the right panel, click on Send.                                                   
  9. Select Share and Embed.                                        
  10. Click on Copy Response Link.                                                                                                                                                                                  This link will allow you to collect responses even when the activity is not activated. Students can respond asynchronously as long as the module is visible.
  11. Return to the Brightspace Module you created.
  12. Click on the description field of the module.
  13. Paste the response link.

Students will now be able to click on the link to respond to the poll at any time, until you remove or update the response link. They can use the link to respond at any time, until you remove or change the response link.

TIP: For future polls, you can follow the same process, and copy the new response link after deleting the old one.

FAQ

Need Help Using Poll Everywhere? 

Poll Everywhere Contact Information

  • For support using Poll Everywhere in Brightspace or integrating polling into your classes: visit the TLS Support Portal and enter a support request. 
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