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<\/a>Poll Everywhere – build interaction into lectures<\/p><\/div>\n
You may have recently heard that, ready for the start of the new term, the University of Sussex\u00a0has licensed Poll Everywhere.<\/p>\n
Poll Everywhere<\/a> is a student response system that allows students to give instant answers or feedback on presented content, via their mobile phones, laptops or tablet devices.<\/p>\n Poll Everywhere can be used to gather ideas, test knowledge or canvas the opinion of a\u00a0class\/audience.<\/p>\n Poll Everywhere is web-based and can be managed both through a web browser or through the Poll Everywhere\u00a0app<\/a>. The user is able to create and launch polls either by using a computer or a smart device, including a mobile phone.<\/p>\n Use a mobile to create your poll<\/p><\/div>\n Poll Everywhere allows for three different types of poll to be created; open-ended, multiple choice and clickable image –<\/p>\n Students can respond to polls via mobile devices<\/p><\/div>\n A poll usually starts with a question and you can create as many polls as you like.<\/p>\n Once the poll has been opened (or \u2018pushed\u2019), students can reply to questions and polls via;<\/p>\n The students replies are instant and can be displayed as part of your PowerPoint presentation on a downloadable slide. The replies are anonymous by default. However, if the tutor wants to set up named respondents, this is possible too.<\/p>\n The responses can be restricted to the number of answers the tutor wishes to allow for each student. After students\u2019 have responded, the results can be collated within Poll Everywhere and exported into an excel file.<\/p>\n You can view this one minute video to see Poll Everywhere being used in a lecture theatre –<\/p>\n Click to view the one minute video<\/p><\/div>\n If you would like to receive training on Poll Everywhere or would like to be added as a user to our licence, please contact tel@sussex.ac.uk<\/a> or your school Learning Technologist<\/a>. You can try Poll Everywhere\u00a0yourself too with just a few clicks of the mouse.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Image with thanks to creative commons licensed (BY-NC-SA) flickr photo by PitsLamp photography<\/a>.<\/p>\n Video snapshots with kind permission from Poll Everywhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" You may have recently heard that, ready for the start of the new term, the University of Sussex\u00a0has licensed Poll Everywhere. Poll Everywhere is a student response system that allows students to give instant answers or feedback on presented content,…<\/span><\/p>\nHow does it work?<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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<\/a>Push your poll<\/b><\/h3>\n
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<\/a>What are the benefits\u00a0of using Poll Everywhere?<\/b>
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What are the limitations?<\/b><\/h3>\n
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