How to Create Instant Polls for Your Courses

Create instant polls in your courses, allowing you to effortlessly gather valuable insights and opinions from your students to engage your students in real-time to enhance their learning experience. 

Example

Imagine you're discussing climate change and want to quickly gauge students' opinions on renewable energy solutions. By creating an instant poll, you can gather and discuss these insights live, enriching the learning experience and fostering an interactive classroom environment.

Benefits

• Enhanced Engagement: Keep students actively involved by integrating questions relevant to the course content.
• Immediate Feedback: Obtain real-time insights to dynamically tailor your teaching and address student misconceptions.
• Ease of Use: Simple, quick steps to integrate polls seamlessly into any course session, enhancing your educational toolkit.

Creating Instant Polls

Step 1: Find the course on My Courses. Click See All Sessions to the right of the course title then click Go to Session Room on the next page.

Step 2: On the next page, a popup window showing your mic and camera settings will appear. You can skip this part for now, and click Enter Session Room.

Step 3: Click the Polls tab on the right side beside the video screen. Click Create New Poll.

Step 4: Type in the poll name, a question, and at least 2 possible answers. Add more answers by clicking +Add Answer.

Step 5: Choose “Share number of voters” to let the audience see exactly how many people voted in raw numbers, or choose “Share percentage only” to show only the percentage of total voters who chose each answer.

Step 6: Click Save.

When you create and save a new poll, it is disabled by default. Click the toggle beside the poll title to enable it.

You can enable polls before, or anytime during, the webinar. Once enabled, the poll is visible and answerable by the participants.

Scheduling a Poll

Step 1: Click the clock icon to set a timer that automatically enables and displays the poll at a time of your choosing during the session.

Step 2: Choose how long after the webinar start time you want the poll to appear, then click OK.

Once the poll is enabled, it will be labeled as LIVE. When a poll is Live, your students will be able to see and answer the poll.

Managing Polls

Step 1: You can add more polls by clicking Add New Poll.

Step 2: You can edit your poll by clicking the Edit Poll icon.

Step 3: You can delete your poll by clicking the Remove Poll icon.

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