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How Poll Everywhere Works
You ask a question

When you make a poll, you choose what type of question you want to ask. You can ask people a multiple choice question or let them respond
freely with any text reply. We love simplicity. We made creating polls extremely easy.

Create Multiple Choice Poll
Ask "What is your favorite color?" and only let your audience choose from "Red", "Blue",
or "Green"

Create Free Text Poll
Ask "What is the meaning of life?" and your audience can send back any message

You're In Control

You control when a poll is open or closed. Close them after you're done to prevent additional responses.

You can choose whether a poll should allow multiple responses from the same person. Poll Everywhere can tell if their computer or cell phone
number is trying to vote a second time.

Text moderation lets you prevent abuse

With text moderation for free-text response polls, you stay in control of approving which responses will be displayed on a public screen. This is
great when results are going to be shared in real-time with a large group or in an outdoor or public venue. Few audience response systems give
you this valuable feature.

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Charts update live as people respond

Watch votes as they are received in real-time

There are four ways to vote: sending a SMS text message, using a smartphone's web browser, sending a "tweet" on Twitter, or on a computer via
the web. To vote with text messages, the audience follows the on-screen instructions and sends a text message with a short keyword (e.g.
"72612") to our short code, 22333 (or an international number if outside the US; read more about international texting here ). When Poll
Everywhere receives a response, the results are updated on our animated charts (for multiple choice polls) or our text wall (for free text polls).
You may decide to project the live results on screen for some types of events.

Trusted and Secure

Every year MIT trusts Poll Everywhere to power audience choice voting that awarded $10,000 to a presenting team. The event and Poll
Everywhere were featured in the Boston Globe
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Smartphone and web voting

Save on text messaging fees by voting from a smartphone or a computer

People with iPhones, BlackBerries, and other smartphones can use their mobile phone's web browser to vote instead of sending text messages.
Your phone's web browser can respond to polls at the convenient and short PollEv.com. Read more about smartphone web voting in Poll
Everywhere.

Unlike many text message based products, we don't neglect
people who may not be big "texters". Distribute the web voting
link via email or a web page, and your audience can respond in
a regular web browser. This is particularly useful for
geographically distributed audiences such as live webcasts, or
if members of the audience are using laptops and don't have a
phone.
Text message, web, twitter, and smartphone responses can be
instantly combined.

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Download polls as Microsoft PowerPoint slides

Live slides react to votes with no special add-ons required

Windows users can downloaded live Poll Everywhere slides that show responses instantly with no software to install. The polls can be copied
between presentations and resized as needed. Colors, images, and font sizes can be customized to match the look and feel of your presentation.
Free Text Polls show a live Text-To-Screen wall (which can also double as a powerful Twitter visualizer), and Multiple Choice Polls show a real-
time graph (or hold the results for a big reveal).
We also beta support for Keynote and Powerpoint Mac.

Advanced Reporting

Customers who have upgraded to a premium plan can tie together a voter's responses across multiple polls using the Reports tab. If you ask your
audience "What is your name?", and later ask "What is your sales budget this year?" you can see who voted for each option.
Letting your audience identify themselves preserves their privacy.
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Automatically grade responses

Set correct & incorrect answers

Setup questions with one or more correct answers. This lets Poll Everywhere know how to grade responses as they are received.

Show the right answers on-screen

After they answer a question, it's easy to quickly show your audience the correct answer for instant comprehension checks. The chart will also
show the distribution of answers. When a large portion of people answer a question incorrect, it can reveal gaps in their understanding and prompt
for more discussion on the topic. Educators will commonly use this feature as an "Entrance Ticket" to begin a lesson with a clear picture of the
current level of understandling.

Grade Reports make scoring simple

Generating and downloading graded reports is a snap. If you are also using our identification or registration capabilities, you'll be able to score
results against people's names, emails, or ID codes for gradebook or class credit. In multi-question grade reports, we'll also show you how many
questions they attempted, and rank them by correctness and speed.
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Publish polls on your blog or website

Our widgets make it easy

Quickly publish the outcome of polls in web pages, blog posts, web forums, a conference website, courseware, digital signage, interactive art
displays - pretty much anything that works in a web browser.
Just copy-paste the HTML code.

Publish a voting widget

Want people to vote right from your web page with a single click? No problem. We have a widget for that too.

Create your first poll It takes less than 30 seconds and you don't have to signup for an account.

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