Poll Creators: Applying Course Management in Poll Everywhere


Learn how to apply the course management feature to your Poll Everywhere course lists.
NOTE:  Exporting grades to Canvas using the current method described on the page Export graded poll responses to the Canvas Gradebook is no longer necessary and will not work with many of the features available with Course Management.  If you enable the new Course Management feature described below, importing course rosters is still necessary in order to apply the feature to a course that is created by the roster import.    

This is a Pre-release feature that can be enabled or disabled by individual presenters in their Poll Everywhere account.  New features include:

Details about Poll Everywhere's Course Management features can be found on the Getting Started with Course Management page on their website. 

Applying Course Management To Your Poll Everywhere Course

IMPORTANT: You must apply Course Management to EACH course you have created in Poll Everywhere. Courses are created when you import a Canvas Roster to your Poll Everywhere account.

  1. After importing a Canvas Course Roster to you Poll Everywhere account, go to the Participants section of Poll Everywhere. Use the link above or click the Participants icon on the left side menu.
    Participants icon
  2. On the Participants page click the Courses button at the top of the page.
    Participants icon and courses icon highlighted in the user interface
  3. Select the course you want to apply Course Management to.

    Course title "Canvas Course 101" highlighted in the user interface
  4. Click the Try it out button shown in the banner at the top of the page.

    Arrow pointing to try it out button at the top of the page
    The page will update with a new "Add New Assignment" feature as well as a button at the top of the page to Revert to previous settings for this course.

    Arrow with text "No assignments found. Please add new assignment" pointing to the "add new assignment" button.

After applying Course Management to at least one course, a new Courses icon will appear in the left side menu. oneuwit

You can access your list of courses directly from this link without having to go to the Participants tab.

Courses icon in the left-side menu is highlighted in the user interface
Once you have Course Management enabled and applied to a course in your account, please read through Getting Started with Course Management on Poll Everywhere's website to learn how to use these new features.