1. Poll Everywhere Tutorial
Nadia Kudla, PharmD; Teresa Breslin, PharmD; Sydney Hendry, MD; Amanda Wojtusik, PharmD
UPMC St. Margaret Faculty Development Fellowship

3. Table of Contents Part 1: The Basics
Signing up
Making an account……………………………………………………….…………..2
Making your first poll (question)…..………………………………3a, 3b, 3c
Adding a multiple choice question….………………………4a, 4b, 4c, 4d
Starting a poll……………………………………………….…………………………..5
Setting up a personal PollEv.com webpage……………………6a, 6b, 6c
Returning to your poll after setting up personal webpage…………7
Pushing a poll to your personal webpage………………..………….…….8
Hiding responses…………………………………………………………………
Stopping a poll..………………………..…………………………………………….10
Revealing responses to the audience……………….……………………..11
Clearing results……………………………………………………………………….12

4. Table of Contents Part 2: Special Features
Enabling Keywords…………………………………………………………13a-13e
- Requires audience to join sessions before responding (see step 13.2)
Starting the poll with labs enabled………………….……….13.1a, 13.1b
Having audience join your session………………………………………..13.2
Seeing number of participants…………………………………….……….13.3
Embedding PollEverywhere in a PowerPoint: Mac…………..14a-14f
Embedding PollEverywhere in a PowerPoint: PC………….…15a-15g

5. Part 1: The Basics

6. 1. Signing Up 1. To create an account click Sign up

7. 2. Making an Account 2. Enter your personal information Click
“Sign up”

8. 3. Creating your First Poll (Question)
- Once you log in, you will be taken to this home screen. This screen will hold all of your polls and let you navigate between polls.
3. To create your first poll, click Create Poll

9. 3a. Type your question 3b. Select type of poll 3c. Click Create
Open ended: Audience can respond with anything.
Multiple choice: Audience can select from the answers you input. Can also upload images for audience to select from.
Add an answer=have more choices
Clickable image: Audience can respond by clicking anywhere on the image you upload.
3c. Click Create

10. 4. Adding an Open-Ended Question
4a. Click on Create Poll to create a second poll question.

11. 4d. Click Create 4b. Type your question. 4c. Select type of poll
Open ended: Audience can respond with anything.
Multiple choice: Audience can select from the answers you input. Can also upload images for audience to select from.
Clickable image: Audience can respond by clicking anywhere on the image you upload.
4d. Click Create

12. 5. Starting the Poll 5. Click Start Poll
Once the poll is started, your audience will be able to respond with their cell phone.
This is how an audience member’s phone should look.

13. 6. Setting up a personal PollEv.com webpage
Notice there are other options via which your audience can respond.
6a. To set up your own personal PollEv.com webpage so that your audience can respond via a laptop or tablet, click on the PollEv.com/your_name (?) link.

14. 6b. Type in whatever you want your personal PollEv
6b. Type in whatever you want your personal PollEv.com page to be called (e.g. jsmith1, johnsmith14, etc.)

15. 6c. Once you find an available webpage, click reserve.

16. 7. Returning to your Poll after Creating a Personal PollEv Webpage
7. Click on Polls to return to your poll

17. 8. Pushing a poll to your personal webpage
8. Click on the “Push Poll Icon” (after clicking “Start Poll”) to allow your audience to respond via the personal web page you just created.

18. Now your audience can respond via their cell phone or their laptop or tablet.

19. 9. Hiding Responses
9. In order to hide the responses until polling is complete. Hover your mouse in the upper right hand corner of the polling screen. Click Hide Results.

20. Now the results are hidden.
You can see how many people have responded via the Total Results counter at the bottom right hand corner of the polling screen.

21. 10. Stopping a Poll
10. When you are ready to end the poll. Click on Stop Poll and the Push Poll Icon.

22. Your poll has now been stopped. No more responses will be collected.

23. 11. Revealing Responses to the Audience
11. To reveal the responses to the audience, hover your mouse in the upper right hand corner of the polling screen. Click Show Chart.

24. Your audience can now see the results.

25. 12. Clearing Results
If you would like to clear the results, click clear results.

26. The results have now been cleared.

27. Part 2: Special Features

28. 13. Enabling Keywords
13a. Click on settings to see some special Poll Everywhere features

29. 13b. Click on Labs

30. 13c. Simple Keywords: This feature allows your audience to answer multiple choice questions with A, B, C, etc. rather than long numbered codes. Click enable to use this feature.
***If you choose to enable this feature, audience members will first need to join your poll before being able to respond. Please see step 26 for a sample of how an audience member’s phone will look to do this.***

31. 13d. You must click Apply lab settings to save your changes
13d. You must click Apply lab settings to save your changes. This is found at the bottom left hand corner of Lab Settings page.

32. 13e. Click Polls to return to your main screen.

33. 13.1. Starting the poll with Labs enabled
13.1a. Click on the name of the poll you’d like to start 14

34. 13.1b. Click on the Start Poll and the Push Poll Icon to allow your audience to start responding. They will be able to respond via text message and via your personal PollEv webpage.

35. 13.2. Having Audience Join Your Session
To join your session the audience must text the keyword (e.g. SMITHJOHN) to
**Because you enabled the Special Keyword feature (steps 13a-13e), your audience members must now join your session before they can begin answering poll questions.**

36. Once your audience members have joined the session, they will receive a confirmation that they joined the session and can begin texting their answers.
They can also respond via your personal PollEv webpage.

37. Now that you’ve enabled “Keywords,” your audience can respond with letters to multiple choice questions instead of long numbers.

38. 13.3. Seeing Number of Participants
This tells you how many participants have joined your session.

39. 14. Embedding PollEverywhere in a PowerPoint: MAC
14a. You must first Install the PollEv Presenter App. Click on Use in a Presentation, then click the Install the PollEv Presenter App on the right hand side of the polling screen.

40. 14b. Once you have the app installed, the Poll Everywhere Ribbon will open

41. 14c. From the Pick a poll, any poll
14c. From the Pick a poll, any poll! drop down menu, select the poll you would like to insert into PowerPoint.

42. 14d. Once you select the poll, click the PowerPoint button.
**You must have PowerPoint open and your mouse in the notes section of the slide you would like the poll to be inserted**

43. **Draw a solid, filled rectangle on your slide and the PollEv Presenter will automatically display your poll in that area when the slide show is playing**
14e. This text in the notes section, lets you know the poll has been imbedded.

44. 14f. This is what the poll will look like in PowerPoint
14f. This is what the poll will look like in PowerPoint. You must hover your mouse along the right hand side of the polling screen to Start/Stop the poll and push the poll to your personal PollEv webpage. You can also hide/show the audience responses via your PowerPoint screen as well

45. 15. Special Features: Embedding PollEverywhere in a PowerPoint: PC
15a. You must first Install the PollEv Presenter App. Click on Use in a Presentation, then click the Install the PollEv Presenter App on the right hand side of the polling screen.

46. 15b. Once you have the app installed, open PowerPoint and click on the “Poll Everywhere” Tab.

47. 15c. Click on the “Insert Slide” Button
15d. A box will pop up asking for your LogIn. Enter your Poll Everywhere account and password created in step 2.

48. 15e. A box will open with a list of your polls
15e. A box will open with a list of your polls. Select one and click “Insert Selected Polls.”

49. 15f. This is the slide that will be imported
15f. This is the slide that will be imported. Start the slide show to preview your question (it may take a minute to load)

50. 15g. This is what the poll will look like in PowerPoint
15g. This is what the poll will look like in PowerPoint. You must hover your mouse along the right hand side of the polling screen to Start/Stop the poll and push the poll to your personal PollEv webpage. You can also hide/show the audience responses via your PowerPoint screen as well