Course Management streamlines course administration, simplifying class management for educators and administrators and enhances how professors integrate Poll Everywhere with Canvas LMS.
Assignments can be scored based on Correctness, Participation, and Attendance. These scores sync with your Canvas LMS Course using points-based or percentage-based models.
Before continuing, please be sure you have followed the steps in How to Set Up Poll Everywhere in your Canvas Course, to ensure your Canvas Course and Poll Everywhere are connected.
Access Poll Everywhere via Canvas
From your Course Homepage, click Poll Everywhere in the Course Navigation Menu, then select "Continue to utah.instructure.com" in the box to the right.
Log in to Poll Everywhere
Type your email address that you have set as your default email in Canvas, and click Next.
The Next option will change for you to click Log in with University of Utah.
From here, you will prompted to enter your University of Utah password. Your Password will be the same one that you use to log in to Canvas or CIS.
By default, your main Canvas email address is normally set to [email protected]. EX: [email protected].
If your are not sure what your default email is in Canvas, follow these steps:
- Click your Profile Image in the top right corner of Canvas, then click "Settings".
- Your default email will show on the right under "Email Addresses" and will have a Star Icon to the left of it.
Accessing Courses
Click on the Course Icon on the Navigation Bar shown on the left in Poll Everywhere.
Creating Assignments with Activities
Step 1: Access Your Canvas Course within Poll Everywhere
Select the name of the Canvas Course that you would like to add an Assignment to.
Click the "Add New Assignment" card.
Step 2: Add New Assignment
A new Action Sheet dialog box will open. Enter the Assignment Name and choose the Participation and/or the Correctness settings you would like.
Note: You can't save until you enter the Assignment Name. However, you can save the Assignment Name without activating Participation or Correctness. Both Participation and Correctness options can be activated at the same time.
After selecting settings, click Save to add the new Assignment.
The new Assignment will appear within a new column.
Step 3: Adding Activities
Click the "+ Activity" button to the right of your new Assignment's name. This will open a new dialog window.
If no Activities are created, follow step "a" to create a new Activity. If you have already created your Activities, skip to step "b".
a: Create a New Activity
Within the dialog window, click "Create New Activity".
A new tab will open where you can create a new Activity. For more details on creating your Activity, see the Poll Everywhere Activity Creation and Poll Everywhere Activity Types guides.
Once you have created your Activity, return to the previous tab and click the "Refresh icon" to update the Activity List instantly. Newly added Activities will appear after refreshing.
b: Add an Existing Activity
If you have already created your Activities, select the Activity or Activities which you would like to be added to the Assignment. Once you have made your selections, click "Save".
You can select all Activities in the visible list by toggling on the Activity dialog window box and selecting all. This will only apply to the Activities shown on the screen, not the entire folders.
The activities are now displayed in the Assignment. Click on an Activity to view its Summary. You can add or remove Activities and update changes to the Assignment.
Viewing Grades
a)
Click on "View Grades" for a specific Assignment.
b)
The new page displays the Participation and/or Correctness settings configured earlier. Both tabs show the respective settings. A side tab, similar to a config panel, allows you to update settings.
View Grades for Participation and configure Settings:
View Grades for Correctness and configure Settings:
If Participation or Correctness is turned off, a notification with an image and text will inform the user that they need to activate Participation and or Correctness for the Assignment.
Grade Synchronization
Via the Courses page, Click Sync Grades to import your Assignment Grades to your Canvas Course. Each Poll Everywhere Assignment will transfer as one Assignment/Gradebook Column within your Canvas Course.
Do not change points or edit the Assignment within Canvas. To make changes to a Poll Everywhere Assignment, please do so within Poll Everywhere, then re-sync Grades to apply those changes to your Canvas Course.
Helpful tip: "Sync Grades" will only show as active for Assignments with Activities added.