Poll Everywhere for Canvas Setup Guide
Poll Everywhere can be used to create polls and activities ahead of time and launch in your web browser or presentation to collect and display real-time responses that participants provide with a laptop or mobile device. What if you could grade your students' reactions to your Poll Everywhere activities? The Poll Everywhere app for Canvas allows you to:
- Sync your course roster from Canvas into Poll Everywhere, allowing you to identify which students participated in your activities.
- Grade participant responses, participation, or attendance from Poll Everywhere to Canvas.
To use Poll Everywhere in Canvas, you must connect your Canvas course to Poll Everywhere. This must be done for each course in which you wish to create grades from Poll Everywhere. Once your course is connected, you can use the Poll Everywhere portal to export activity responses directly to the Canvas grade book. Once you have collected some student activity results, you can export those results to Canvas as a graded assignment. When exporting to Canvas, you can choose between the following grade types:
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Participation: Grades are based on whether or not the student participated in the activity.
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Correctness: If your activity had a 'correct' answer set, exported grades are based on whether the participant submitted the correct answer.
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Attendance: If your account has attendance enabled, exported grades are based on whether the participant responded to your activity from an approved location.
Each report you export will create a single grade column in Canvas, regardless of the number of activities in the report.
The resource below will walk you through setting up Poll Everywhere in Canvas:
Canvas and Poll Everywhere Integration Guide
Poll Everywhere for Canvas FAQ
Can I use Poll Everywhere without connecting it to Canvas?
Yes. Poll Everywhere can be used independently from Canvas. You are free to host activities from www.polleverywhere.com and you can 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.
Where can I learn more about Poll Everywhere as an Instructor?
