Managing and Inserting Poll Everywhere Activities in a Canvas Course to Track Grades and/or Attendance

Poll Everywhere enables grading methods for participation or attendance activities, helps you organize activities by course, and allows more efficient roster management. Once the connection to Poll Everywhere is established in your Canvas course using the steps in Managing Poll Everywhere Activities in a Canvas Courses, instructors will need to add the activities by linking or embedding them into the course using the steps outlined in inserting Poll Everywhere Activities in a Canvas Course.

Managing Poll Everywhere Activities in a Canvas Course

Assignments can be scored based on correctness, participation, and attendance. These scores sync with your LMS using points-based and percentage-based models.

This video outlines the following concepts:

Connecting a Canvas course with Poll Everywhere
Creating an Assignment
Synchronizing Grades
Viewing Grades

Please note that WFU does NOT connect Poll Everywhere by adding a Canvas module as referenced in this video. Instead, WFU has configured Canvas to add Poll Everywhere as a tool on the Course Navigation bar.

Inserting Poll Everywhere Activities in a Canvas Course

This video outlines the following concepts:

Creating Poll Everywhere activities (polls) as assignment
Creating a Poll Everywhere activity to track attendance
Inserting Poll Everywhere activities as a link.
Embedding Poll Everywhere activities in a Canvas Page