Connecting your Canvas course with Poll Everywhere
Why use Poll Everywhere with Canvas?
What if you could grade your students on their responses to your Poll Everywhere activities? The Poll Everywhere integration for Canvas allows you to export participant responses as a gradebook item. Choose between a participation or weighted grade based on the activity involved.
This integration is split into two parts:
- Connecting your Canvas course and Poll Everywhere
- Exporting an activity to your gradebook
Before you begin...
- Ensure you have a Presenter account with UIW and are able to manage and create activities with Poll Everywhere.
- Ensure the course you're using PE with is set to 'Published' within Canvas.
- Make sure your Canvas course has an established start and end date. The start date must be a date prior to setting up the integration.
Step 1
Login to Cardinal Apps and open Canvas LMS
Step 2
Head to the Modules area within the course you plan to use Poll Everywhere with.
Step 3
Click the + Module button in the upper right to create a new module.
This module will be left as 'unpublished' so it will not show for students. It exists to connect Poll Everywhere and Canvas.
Step 4
Name the module Poll Everywhere, then click the 'Add Module' button.
Leave the module as unpublished ()
Step 5
Click on the + button in the upper right of your new Poll Everywhere module.
Step 6
- Choose 'External Tool' within the drop-down menu
- Scroll down and click on 'Poll Everywhere'
- Scroll down using the right-most handle and check the 'Load in a new tab' box.
- Click on the 'Add Item' button
Step 7
Click on the newly created 'Poll Everywhere' module item and open Poll Everywhere with the 'Load Poll Everywhere in a new window' button.
If you are asked to Log in, enter your @uiwtx.edu email and click the Next button twice to Log in with UIW.
Step 8
Click on the 'Continue to canvas.uiw.edu' button
Step 9
You'll now see the name of your course and some other options. To finish the sync process, click the Sync roster button.
Done! Now, your Canvas roster will sync with Poll Everywhere. You are now ready to create grades from polls and activities.
What to do now?
FAQ
How many times do I need to do this sync?
This sync will need to be performed at least once. The first time will be to connect the two platforms... and you'll need to perform the sync (steps 7-9) each time a student is added or dropped from your Canvas course. This is to ensure the grades you export go to the correct individual.
Does this process connect all my Canvas courses to Poll Everywhere?
No. You will need to repeat this entire guide for each course you plan on exporting grades from Poll Everywhere.
Can I use Poll Everywhere without connecting it to Canvas?
Yes. Poll Everywhere can be used independently from Canvas and you are free to manually enter grades based on participant responses. However, this process provides a seamless workflow to automatically match a participant's response to their Canvas counterpart.