Polling Students

The Quick Poll tool lets you “poll” your students. A poll is a survey you send to students that they immediately receive on their handhelds or laptops. After students receive the poll, they can send responses back to your computer. Quick Poll is available from all workspaces. As you receive student responses, use the Review Workspace to review the responses.

When you click the Quick Poll icon from any workspace, the Documents Workspace opens, and you can start the Quick Poll. Starting the Quick Poll opens the Review Workspace. You can switch to any workspace while a poll is in progress, but you can only stop the poll from the Documents or Review Workspaces.

You can send the following types of questions:

• Multiple Choice
- Custom Choice
- ABCD
- True/False
- Yes/No
- Always/Sometimes/Never
- Agree/Disagree
- Strongly Agree...Strongly Disagree
• Open response
- Explanation (not auto-graded)
- Text Match (auto-graded)
• Equations and Expressions
- y=
- f(x)=
- Expression
• Coordinate Points and Lists
- (x,y) Numerical Input
- Drop Points
- List(s)
• Image
- Label
- Point on
• Chemistry

When you select a question type, a brief explanation of the question is displayed at the bottom of the Choose Question Type dialog box.

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