When presenting with PowerPoint, instructors may want to utilize polls to gauge participant understanding or receive feedback as part of the presentation. It is possible to embed and run Poll Everywhere polls into a PowerPoint presentation so that they can be initiated and managed from PowerPoint while presenting.
If you are running Poll Everywhere in PowerPoint and sharing your content via Zoom, you will need to share your entire desktop and not just the PowerPoint application. Zoom sees the live slide as a separate program and will not display it to your Zoom participants if you share only the PowerPoint application.
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This article will address the following information:
Logging into Poll Everywhere on PowerPoint
If you have not already done so, you will need to install Poll Everywhere's Desktop application, which is will align with the specific application, in this case PowerPoint, that you will be working in. Follow our support article on Installing the Poll Everywhere Desktop Application for more information.
- Open a PowerPoint presentation (either a new PowerPoint presentation or a pre-existing one), and click on "Poll Everywhere" in the editor ribbon along the top of the PowerPoint window.
- In the editor ribbon, click "Log in."
- In the Poll Everywhere login window that opens over your PowerPoint, put in your Yale email, press "Next" and confirm you want to be logged in through Yale.
- Once logged into Poll Everywhere through PowerPoint you will see your Poll Everywhere account name listed in the space where you could login before.
- You will now be able to start inserting and manipulating Poll Everywhere activities in your PowerPoint presentations.
Inserting a Poll Everywhere Activity
- On the "Poll Everywhere" tab in your PowerPoint presentation, select "Insert" in the editor ribbon and then "Activity" from the menu that opens to bring up a window displaying the poll activities you've already created.
- In the Poll Everywhere window that opens, find the specific activity polls that you want to insert from the list and use the check boxes to select them.
- Once selected, you can also move, duplicate, clear, or delete the activity.
- In this window is also the option to create a "New activity."
- Once selected, click the "Insert slides" button to add the poll activity / activities as standalone slides in the presentation.
- Before the activity is inserted, Poll Everywhere asks if it should be inserted as one slide or a series of slides depending on how you would like your presentation to flow. Select one of the flow options and click the "Insert slides" button in the top-right corner.
- Default - inserts the poll as one slide within your presentation
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Engagement - inserts the poll as a series of slides that will move through this sequence, in order:
- Display the poll activity instructions
- Display the poll activity results
- Lock the poll activity slide as you continue to move through the presentation
- The poll activity will now be inserted within your presentation as a new slide. Repeat this process for each poll activity you want to add.
Running Your Presentation
If you are running Poll Everywhere in PowerPoint and sharing your content via Zoom, you will need to share your entire desktop and not just the PowerPoint application.
Zoom sees the live slide as a separate program and will not display it to your Zoom participants if you share only the PowerPoint application.
- Once a Poll Everywhere poll activity has been added to a PowerPoint presentation, you are free to run your presentation to activate the poll.
- When you get to a slide that contains a Poll Everywhere poll, the poll will activate and you will see the live slide displayed.
- The on screen poll options will appear if you move your cursor to the bottom of the screen.
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