Poll Everywhere-Getting Started
- Shannon Pitt
What is Poll Everywhere?
Poll Everywhere is a web-based tool for making presentations interactive. Instructors can engage students, gauge their understanding, and get feedback in real time. It can be used inside or outside of Blackboard.
Account Creation
Syracuse University has an institutional license to use Poll Everywhere for faculty, staff, and students.
If you have an existing Poll Everywhere account, please email help@syr.edu to have your account added to the university license.
Instructors that do not have accounts can create them:
Visit Poll Everywhere
Click Login
Enter your @syr.edu email address and click next
Click Login with Syracuse University
If you are logged in to other university resources you may already be logged in. If prompted, complete the normal campus login process.
If you attempt to login from Blackboard before you have an account, you may see a password reset page. Do not use the reset option; click the text option that reads “log in now.”
Accessing Poll Everywhere
Student Access
If you are a student and you are responding to polls in Poll Everywhere for your course, please visit Poll Everywhere | Getting Started for Students for more information on how to use Poll everywhere as a participant.
Students cannot make presentations by default but can get presenter access by emailing help@syr.edu.
Direct Access
Users can access Poll Everywhere at https://www.polleverywhere.com/ or http://polleverywhere.syr.edu. Sign in using your complete @syr.edu email.
Access via Blackboard
Poll Everywhere can be integrated with Blackboard. To sync your course roster and transfer results to the Blackboard grade book, you must create and then access Poll Everywhere through the link that you created in Blackboard as shown below.
To add a Poll Everywhere Link in your Blackboard course, select the “purple plus sign” 
Scroll through the tools on the Content Market page until you see Poll Everywhere which will be near the bottom of the list. Click directly on the circled plus sign in the bottom right of the tile to add a Poll Everywhere link on your Course Content page. Clicking on the tile itself will lead you to Poll Everywhere.
If you wish to sync Poll Everywhere results with your Blackboard course, a Poll Everywhere link is required in your course.
When you are back on your Course Content page you will see the Poll Everywhere link there. If you have multiple courses and would like to use Poll Everywhere for each of them, a link needs to be created in each course.
Clicking on the Poll Everywhere link directly brings you to the Poll Everywhere platform for login access. Click on the blue “Continue to developer.blackboard.com” button.
Once you click on the blue button, the Poll Everywhere page will appear. You can see a left ribbon panel where the Home icon is denoted by the arrow. You should see the name of your course as well as options to Add New Gradebook and/or Synch Roster. At the top left hand side you can see a navigation previous link that gives you access to all of your Courses which includes any courses you have already synced with Poll Everywhere.
Creating Activities in Poll Everywhere
A Poll Everywhere ‘Activity’ is a single question or prompt you pose to your audience. Activities allow presenters to gather responses or questions from the audience.
Step 1: To create an activity, tap the Activity button on your Activities page.
Step 2: Select the activity you would like to create for the audience from the Activity Creator Tool. You can choose from the main 7 activities (Multiple choice, Word cloud, Q&A, etc.) or find more templates when you hit the More button on the right.
Step 3: Then enter your question or prompt.
Step 4: Click the Create button to save the activity to your account or click Add another activity instead and this will save your Activity and take you back to the Activity creator tool, where you can create more activities.
To create reports, sync with Blackboard, or add activities to presentations, please visit the links below.
Additional Helpful Links