PollEverywhere Revisted

Polleverywhere is a web-based audience response tool for running polls or collecting text feeback from participants via their own mobile devices.

Last week I demonstrated it at the SoI Teaching & Learning Forum as part of my presentation on Edublogs. I’ve used Polleverywhere a few times over the last couple of years: in my FOTE10 presentation & with staff at LSE.

Features

• Multiple-Choice polls & Free Text Questions
• 40 responses per poll / question [Update: the university currently has a campus licence allowing unlimited use]
• Participants contribute via SMS, Twitter or pollEv.com
• Results can be downloaded as .CSV
• Responses per person can be restricted or unlimited

The main drawback of the standard free version, is the 40-response per question limit.  In the past I’ve got around this by getting participants to discuss and respond as a group but this will depend on the activity. The paid-for versions are more expensive than I remember; as well as upping the numbers give you other features such as response moderation.

Examples

1) Multiple Choice Poll

View & respond to Poll

2) Free Text Poll

View & Respond to Question