Poll Everywhere Tutorials:

Course Management

The Course Management feature allows you to create Poll Everywhere assignments that can be synced to your Canvas gradebook. Assignments can be scored based on correctness and/or participation.

Before getting started with Course Management, make sure that you’ve connected Poll Everywhere to your Canvas course.

Accessing Course Management

  1. Log in to your account at www.polleverywhere.com
  2. Click on the courses icon on the navigation bar:

  3. Select the appropriate course from the list:

     

Creating Assignments

  1. Once you’ve entered your course, click the “Add New Assignment” button:
  1. Enter a title for your assignment. The title you enter here will also be the title for this assignment in your Canvas gradebook.

 

  1. Customize your assignment’s grading options by choosing “Participation” or “Correctness.”
    • Selecting “Participation” will assign credit for completing the activity.
    • Selecting “Correctness” will assign credit based on students’ providing the correct answer.

↳ NOTE: You can choose to select both “Participation” and “Correctness,” but these scores will sync as two separate grade columns in Canvas.

  1. Save your assignment.
  1. Locate your assignment on the Courses page and select “+ Activity”
  1. Select one or more activities to add to your Poll Everywhere assignment. You can also choose to create a new activity for this assignment by clicking “Create New Activity.” When you’re finished, click the “Save” button.

 

  1. After adding activities to your assignment, you’ll be returned to your course page, where you’ll see the new activities have appeared in your assignment.

  1. After your students have completed the assignment, you’ll return to this page to push their grades to Canvas by clicking the “Sync Grades” button.

  1. When your grades have finished synching, you’ll see a time and date appear under the “Last Grade Sync” column. NOTE: Large classes may take 3-5 minutes to sync.

  1. If students complete the assignment after your first sync and you’d like to update your Canvas gradebook, return to the course page and click “Sync Grades” again.