Before you can create and integrate your polls into various tools, you need to have the Poll Everywhere app downloaded to your device. To download the application, visit Poll Everywhere's guide for downloading according to your device.  

Participants have the option of using a web browser, the Poll Everywhere mobile or desktop app, or text messaging to respond to an activity. In a distance learning environment, your students will need to use their phones or laptops to participate, depending on which device they have available.

With Poll Everywhere you can require participants to enter a screen name. This is not as secure as registering participants, but is more effective than using auto-generated IDs. 

You can require your students to use their full names or a special code that only your students would know (e.g. APPLES_JohnSmith). This way, if you see an unrecognizable participant without that code, you will know they are not a part of your class.

Leverage Poll Everywhere to turn your one-sided virtual lecture into a two-sided conversation. Insert Poll Everywhere activities into your existing lesson plan to actively engage students..

After downloading the Poll Everywhere App, with Poll Everywhere for Mac and Windows, you can seamlessly present activities in your PowerPoint or Keynote presentations by embedding them as a slide. This gives your class a more streamlined presentation because you donʼt have to switch back and forth between your presentation app and Poll Everywhere.

If you prefer, you can also create and present your activities from the web. To do so, all you need to do is log into your Poll Everywhere account and from your home page, click the + Activity button. From there, you will be prompted to create an activity.

This feature allows you to give credit for graded questions in class. After you complete an activity, you can run a gradebook report, which is a compact table that displays a list of participants and how well they scored during your quiz/presentation. While you can include any activity type in Gradebook report, it is most typically used for Multiple choice and Clickable image activities as these allow you to assign correct answers/regions.

Teams allow presenters to share activities with each other. Activities shared with a team may be viewed, reported, and presented by all members of the team. Only account administrators and Team Leads may create and edit Teams.

Shared Activities will save time and stress when it comes to managing activities that will be presented by multiple presenters. Each presenters on the team will be able to present the shared activities independently.