Using Poll Everywhere for Presentations
- Shannon Pitt
Poll Everywhere can be presented from PollEverywhere.com or can used in other applications such as Powerpoint, Keynote, Google Slides, Office 365, and Zoom. Below are links to documentation that may be helpful when using inserting Poll Everywhere activities into a presentation.
When presenting a Powerpoint with Poll Everywhere activities via zoom, you MUST share your entire desktop. If you share only the Powerpoint window on which the activity displays, the audience will not see your activity. This is the case even if everything appears normal from your perspective. Zoom sees the live poll as a separate program from the Powerpoint and will not display it to your audience if you only share the Powerpoint application.
Please follow the directions below to present Polls on Zoom using Powerpoint:
Close all unnecessary apps and windows.
Open your Powerpoint presentation with the Poll Everywhere activities.
Launch your Zoom meeting.
Select Share Screen from the toolbar.
Select your desktop that has your Powerpoint presentation. It is important that you share the entire desktop and not just the Powerpoint window.
Select Share.
You can now present your slides that contain your Poll Everywhere activities in your Zoom meeting.
Please follow the links below if you need to install the Poll Everywhere App of Plugin
If the Poll Everywhere app or a browser extension is required and you have an SU managed computer, you will need to reach out to your departmental IT support for installation assistance.