Overview
What is Poll Everywhere?
Poll Everywhere is an event management software system offered by Poll Everywhere.
Embrace Smart Phones and Engage Your Audience with Poll Everywhere
Poll Everywhere Leverages Existing Tech, Saves Money
Good Supplemental Tool for Classes.
A Simple But Overwhelming Poll Favorite With Adaptability
Pricing
Engage
$42
Teams
$84
Present
$120
Entry-level set up fee?
- No setup fee
Offerings
- Free Trial
- Free/Freemium Version
- Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Product Details
- About
- Tech Details
What is Poll Everywhere?
Poll Everywhere Technical Details
Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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Operating Systems | Unspecified |
Mobile Application | No |
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(16)Community Insights
- Recommendations
Users recommend trying the free version of Poll Everywhere before considering a purchase. They suggest using Poll Everywhere for interactive polling in classrooms or presentations and integrating it with PowerPoint or Google Slides for best results. Poll Everywhere is recommended for engaging any audience, and the free version is suitable for polling groups of less than 40 people. It is highly regarded by educators at the undergraduate and graduate level, as well as for small to large groups. Users find Poll Everywhere easy to use, with a short learning curve, and appreciate its budget-friendly nature compared to other audience response systems. They also recommend it for collecting and presenting data from any size group of people, and praise the feature of submitting texts as poll answers. Additionally, users find that Poll Everywhere can be used effectively for gathering thoughts and brainstorming activities. It exploits existing mediums, especially mobile devices, for a faster experience. In summary, Poll Everywhere is considered one of the top poll applications available.
Reviews
(1-4 of 4)Magnificent
- Class instruction
- Quiz
- Team building and group assignments
- Free option needs to add more options
- So far, the ROI is high because we utilize it frequently as an innovative way to engage students.
- No need to distribute or account for 'clickers' -- PollEverywhere works with any device, even an old fashioned flip phone
- Because the polls are URL based you can engage with both an in-person and remote audience at the same time
- PPT Integration is very easy, even for novice technical users
- Analytics are strong, if you choose to require registration you can really drill down on where certain responses are coming from
- Innovation -- Poll Everywhere is always rolling out new features and poll types. The most recent feature of group 'competitions' can add a fun gaming element to any class or event.
- While you can technically embed a poll into a website on LMS, the features are rather limited. Embedding multiple polls in different sites/courses from one account has been problematic. Users tend to default to something like Google Polls or Qualtrix instead
- GradeCenter integration with our LMS (Blackboard) while possible, is not as robust as we'd like to see
- Some of our users have felt limited by the only being able to do one poll at a time. We have not found a great way to collect multiple polls at once or to create user-paced polls
- Managing groups of users (in our case classes) using the same poll set can be cumbersome.
1. Get rid of those clickers! They eat batteries, need constant maintenance, and ofter walk off at a monetary loss.
2. The pricing model is really easy to manage, the campus/company license will pay for itself even if you only have 5-10 active users.
3. Stop fighting mobile devices in your classroom and start leveraging them. Students can't mess around on social media, texting etc if they are in the PE app.
Then situations where Poll Everywhere wouldn't work as well:
1. Not great for multiple part, asynchronous polling, or data collection
2. Areas where there is a limited or absent internet connection.
3. Situations where an audience would lack basic technology such as a cell phone or laptop.
- The most obvious financial advantage is not having to account for the physical clickers and batteries
- Because of the PPT integration, training and IT support is minimal
- Because of the campus/organizational license, our students have spaced any subscription or device costs. The app, etc is completely free for end users.
Google Polls - Pretty basic tool, not very engaging or fun. Doesn't have any of the features like Word Clouds or Competitions. Lack of LMS integration.
Top Hat - Not as good in really any way. The student pay subscription model was a deal-breaker for me.
Poll Everywhere Leverages Existing Tech, Saves Money
- Stellar customer service/tech support
- User-friendly question creation (just a few clicks)
- Consistently making improvements based on user feedback
- Offers pretty robust free version that we can share with our teachers in training
- SSO integration could be a little smoother
- LMS grade integration requires many steps, sometimes frustrates faculty
- New quiz/gaming feature is still not as good as Kahoot - some technical issues in presentations
- We were facing an unplanned $20k yearly expense if we had stayed with our previous clicker provider
- Poll Everywhere made it so we did not have to increase student fees or find another way to fund the initiative; we had enough in current fees to cover the usage
- In pilots, students preferred using Poll Everywhere to clickers
- Turning Technologies - has its own clicker or has a mobile option, good support
- iClicker - has its own clicker or has a mobile option, clunkier for faculty to use
- Pearson's Learning Catalytics - has phenomenal analytics, can be used outside of Pearson, no clicker option
- In the end, Poll Everywhere provides excellent support and offers competitive pricing
A Simple But Overwhelming Poll Favorite With Adaptability
- Easy to use and get up and running. You can quickly set up a poll everywhere question or survey in a matter of minutes.
- Fun and creative. Poll Everywhere allows users to interact via text message on their phone or through the web app/site. Great for student engagement.
- Saves the results. One of the best features is that you can take the results from the poll or survey away with you to check back on at a later date. This is perfect for teachers to be able to assess and modify their lessons.
- I can honestly say I like everything about Poll Everywhere. Its simplicity is a complete advantage over other programs.
- I actually like how users are anonymous when they respond. However, you can have users/students sign-in if you are running the premium version of Poll Everywhere.
- Enhanced interaction during lessons
- Increased student engagement
- Increased opportunities for student voice
- Socrative, exit ticket and Google Forms