Poll Everywhere: Engage Your Audience - New Training Portal Course Now Available!
Looking for a way to supercharge student participation and classroom management? Learning Services is excited to announce the release of a new partnership course, Poll Everywhere: Engage Your Audience, developed by Poll Everywhere, available March 10, 2025 in the On-Demand Training Portal.
Poll Everywhere empowers educators to create engaging, interactive learning experiences that foster participation, critical thinking, and real-time feedback. Their mission is to provide accessible, user-friendly technology that enhances classroom interaction – whether in-person, hybrid, or fully online – helping instructors better understand student comprehension and drive meaningful discussions.
In collaboration with Instructure, Poll Everywhere has created an engaging Partnership Training Course that can be accessed from the On-Demand Training Portal. Institutions with an Essentials, Standard, or Premium subscription to the On-Demand Training Portal will have access to this course (learn more about available subscription levels). For information on accessing a partnership course in the portal, please see the Partnership Program Launch Blog post.
Poll Everywhere is a powerful tool designed to make learning more interactive and engaging. It allows educators to create a wide variety of activities—from simple multiple-choice polls to more complex word clouds, Q&A sessions, and even competitions. These activities can be used in real-time during live sessions or asynchronously for self-paced learning. Poll Everywhere seamlessly integrates with Canvas, allowing instructors to embed activities directly into their course materials, track student participation, and sync grades.
Benefits of Poll Everywhere:
- Increased Student Engagement: A variety of engagement-driven activity types, including multiple-choice polls, word clouds, Q&As, clickable images, open-ended responses, and competitions, designed to capture attention, encourage participation, and assess understanding in both live and asynchronous learning environments.
- Real-Time Feedback: Instantly gauge student understanding with polls and Q&A sessions. This allows you to adjust your teaching on the fly and address any confusion immediately.
- Improved Classroom Management: Tools like Attendance Management and Course Management streamline administrative tasks, freeing you to focus on teaching.
- Roster Sync – Automatically imports and updates student rosters from Canvas, so students can participate without the need for extra setup.
- Embedded activities – Keep students engaged without leaving Canvas by integrating Poll Everywhere directly into course materials.
- Enhanced Learning Outcomes: By encouraging critical thinking and participation, Poll Everywhere helps students grasp concepts more deeply and retain information more effectively.
- Flexibility and Accessibility: Whether you're teaching in person, online, or in a hybrid format, Poll Everywhere adapts to your needs. It’s also user-friendly for both instructors and students, ensuring a smooth learning experience.
This Training Portal Course explores Poll Everywhere’s powerful integration with Canvas and how it can be leveraged to enhance student participation and classroom management. The course includes a series of Modules with written content, images, and videos. Upon completion of this course, a verifiable, digital badge is awarded so learners can showcase a credential as evidence of learning. This course provides in depth information and use cases of this tool for those looking for a deeper application than what may be found in a guide.
By the end of the course, learners will be able to:
- Create engaging, interactive activities that foster student participation and discussion.
- Explore best practices for using Poll Everywhere within Canvas to enhance both synchronous and asynchronous learning.
- Leverage Course Management and Attendance Management to streamline lesson planning, track participation, and improve student engagement without adding administrative burden.
- Explore real-world success stories and strategies for maximizing the impact of Poll Everywhere in the classroom.
We're thrilled to bring this Poll Everywhere partnership course to you. Head over to the On-Demand Training Portal and explore the interactive world of Poll Everywhere. Discover new ways to engage your students, and transform your teaching. Don't forget to share your thoughts and experiences! How do you envision using Poll Everywhere in your classes? What are you most excited to try? Share your ideas, successes, and questions in the comments below. Let's build a community of engaged educators together!
