Poll Everywhere. Survey your audience

Last updated on 31 March 2024

Poll Everywhere is a tool that makes it possible to survey and get feedback from an audience via the web, Twitter or SMS.

A CTBT tool that can be particularly useful for Facilitate a presentation in front of a large audience or measure the level of public understanding. It allows you to set up a survey in seconds and get real-time feedback or feedback.

The system therefore allows you to question your audience by asking a question, the public can answer it by SMS with a mobile phone, on the web via a computer, tablet or smartphone. You can also reply via Twitter. When you create a survey, Poll Everywhere gives you the ability to control it accurately. You can propose a Qcm-type question or choose an open-ended question to which participants will answer freely via text. You will define the opening and closing of the poll, whether or not you will allow a person to vote multiple times.

Essential function for a presentation in public and in real time, the service allows you to moderate the answers if the question asked is open It allows participants to respond freely.

One of Poll Everywhere’s strengths is its ability to integrate with all presentation systems for live dissemination of results. The service makes it possible toembed a survey in a PowerPoint or Keynote, for example. The slide page containing the survey will automatically update to take into account the results of a survey. In the same vein, you can also include a survey on a website or blog.

A real success hailed by a real success. Poll Everywhere is used by many universities and adult learning centres across the Atlantic. In order not to spoil anything, the team does not lack humor, the proof with this video of presentation of their tool

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Poll Everywhere is particularly useful for animating a presentation to a wide audience at a conference or in an amphitheatre. It will easily and advantageously replace freehand answers and even mobile boxes where one clicks at the request of the presenter. The ease of implementation makes it possible to use it on the fly on a given point even if you had not planned it during your preparation.

Poll Everywhere offers several types of subscriptions, including a free subscription that allows you to survey up to 40 participants. Beware that the use of SMS to vote is done via a number in London for Europe resulting in a cost of about 50 cents, it will be necessary to warn potential users.

Link: Poll Everywhere.