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Poll Everywhere is an on-premise and cloud-based software designed to help corporate businesses, non-profit organizations and educational institutions host remote meetings and capture participants' feedback via polls or surveys....
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- Industry: Human Resources
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Monthly for 6-12 months
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Great software for presentations and quick opnion surveys.
Pros
This software allows you to generate real time graphics with the votes of a specific public, facilitating presentations in wich you need to prove a point of make an opnion survey about something.
Cons
The app is not widely known, it took a really long time to find this software.
- Industry: Higher Education
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Monthly for 2+ years
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A student's view on Poll Everywhere
Pros
Poll everywhere is easy in use. It's an added value to the lectures.
Cons
I haven't found any negative aspects about Poll Everywhere yet.
- Industry: Higher Education
- Company size: 5,001–10,000 Employees
- Used Monthly for 2+ years
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A useful tool for engaging an audience
The main benefit is audience engagement in a presentation.
Pros
Poll Everywhere has been relatively easy to use in presentations to students as a real time, visual-oriented way of soliciting their thoughts on a subject that becomes in turn a springboard for further discussion.
Cons
Sometimes Poll Everywhere seems to limit the number of users who can participate, so can be limiting in that way.
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- Industry: Higher Education
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Monthly for 2+ years
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Comprehensive instant audience response tool
We use PollEverywhere in many adult teaching and training sessions to increase active engagement in the audience. We train our teachers and trainers to use it and, as non-experts, they find it is simple to get on board with and find it really works to break up long sessions and give audiences a simple and effective means of instant interaction.
Pros
PollEverywhere is a fantastic tool for injecting engagement into any presentation or teaching session. It is an easy-to-use interface and has a variety of question types to cater for many forms of response, including image-based ones. The fact that it has free-text responses enables a rich response gathering from audiences and display to the audience. The new points-based quiz feature and the home-work feature are welcome to helo expand its application to a wide range of uses. The fact that it has a free plan is extremely helpful in the not-for-profit sector.
Cons
Many users would like seamless integration into PowerPoint and Keynote but this is only possible through installing software on the machine and this is not possible for our users at an institutional set-up. It would be good if a workaround was offered that didn't depend on installing local software client. Also, the paid-for plans are relatively expensive, certainly prohibitively so for smaller groups and not-for-profit.
- Industry: Education Management
- Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Awesome classroom tool.
Pros
I have used Poll Everywhere for as long as I can remember. As a university professor with large classes, I find it one of the most effective ways to keep students engaged, attentive and on time. It's growing features over the years are also helpful.
Cons
Not truly any cons I can think of off the top of my head...there customer service is not perfect, but I have always come to the answer I need.
- Industry: Consumer Goods
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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Great Training Tool
Pros
Poll Everywhere's value lies in its versatility: It can be used to poll your audience in nearly any situation. I primarily use it as a training tool, and the ability to customize questions and how participants respond is great. You can pose questions, and have responding data appear on the screen anonymously, which is particularly useful when they are typing out responses as opposed to simply choosing an answer.
Cons
Not too many things to criticize about Poll Everywhere. The only drawback would be in ensuring your audience has the ability to take part in your polls. Smartphones offer the most convenient and less-distracting way for people to participate, but I supposed laptops could be used as well.
- Industry: Higher Education
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used for 2+ years
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Flexible Polling Solution to Meet Most Needs
Our organization uses Poll Everywhere constantly. The heaviest users are faculty and students, where polls are conducted in courses throughout the semester. Our staff also uses it as a fun way to crowdsource ideas at department meetings.
Pros
The solution is easy to use, offers many question types and is very accessible since anyone with an IP-enabled device and browser can participate in the polls.
Cons
We'll occasionally struggle to frame a poll question into one of the available question types. It's not a huge issue - usually it just forces us to break the question up. Unfortunately, this can impact the reporting later on.
- Industry: Higher Education
- Company size: 5,001–10,000 Employees
- Used Weekly for 1+ year
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Good integration with PowerPoint and Google Sheets, but competitors have better design
It's made live polling of students within lectures quick and effective, and as a result has improved student engagement in our lectures.
Pros
Very well integrated into PowerPoint and (to a slightly lesser extent) Google Sheets. It's easy to do live polling of your audience and there are multiple ways for users to vote (website with code, SMS, etc.) The interface is quick and reactive, but visually other competitors have a better interface (i.e. MentiMeter).
Cons
Downloading and installing the PowerPoint & Google Sheets plugins (.exe files) was a bit tricky but it did work without admin privileges on my PC. Tweaking the poll and display settings was complicated and I had to read the manual to get support.
- Industry: Education Management
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Monthly for 1+ year
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Polling for Professional Development
Pros
Recently, I was preparing for professional development training with a group of educators. I felt it was important for everyone in the room to know a little more about each other and for me, as the instructor, to better understand my audience. It was so fun for everyone to answer basic questions about themselves! I asked a few fun questions to help break the ice, and everyone was very engaged.
Cons
I consider myself a pretty tech-savvy person, so I was disappointed that the features that come with the free version are not as easy to understand as other programs. I also think it would be great if there were a QR code that people could scan instead of having to text.
- Industry: Printing
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Weekly for 1-5 months
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Great for teachers/professors
Pros
-As a Student, using poll everywhere was a fun and easy way to take quizzes/surveys in class
-As a creator, Poll everywhere is simple and straightforward despite how complicated it may seem.
Cons
-Response delays can be problematic, some took almost ten minutes to appear
-never used IT services
- Industry: Higher Education
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used for 2+ years
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Poll Everywhere WORKS
Pros
Poll Everywhere is easy to use from both the instructor and the student facing sides of the software. We desperately needed to find a solution to get real-time survey results in the classroom without making students pay for clicker technology they would ultimately toss away. Poll Everywhere is that solution!
Cons
This is not a complaint about the software itself, but rather the pricing. Poll everywhere is more expensive for a tool that is not very robust. If you're looking for simplicity, than this tool is perfect.
- Industry: Food & Beverages
- Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
- Used for 2+ years
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Simple, easy way to build active learning into your training
Pros
I like how easy it is to create polls on the fly or in advance, add in elements like photos, animated gifs, videos, etc. It was very user friendly, and the tool integrated with the LMS we used at a previous job. We were even able to add a Poll Everywhere tab to Power Point so polls could be built into presentation slides.
Cons
There weren't alot of things I didn't like about it, the free version probably has some limitations but overall the tool is very versatile.
- Industry: Medical Practice
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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Best option for polling
A must have for everyone in a polling situation
Pros
This was a revolutionary software for ease of polling a group of people. It can be used remotely as well. It just allows for excellent anonymous polling of Audience and groups of all kinds. And allows for a cool pop up of different answers. Plenty of features for the more complicated polls and easy use for the beginner. A must have in the academic settings for quick quizzing of students.
Cons
I only find that having to have an account can be a complication but it’s free and easy to make one and I believe you can still poll even without an account, I might be wrong about that though. Overall, just seriously no complaints.
- Industry: Higher Education
- Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
- Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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Does the job
Pros
Lately, my professors have gotten into the habit of using Poll Everywhere to conduct an interactive lecture. By showing the link on the screen, every student can participate quickly in polling during the class. It's simple and easy to use, and also easy to set up. Instead of having students buy clickers, this is an awesome, free alternative to get students engaged.
Cons
Some of the modes of presenting the data results are very hard to read and understand. There needs to be improvement to the options of presenting the data.
- Industry: Apparel & Fashion
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Monthly for 6-12 months
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Best Poll and Survey Tool
Pros
It helps with polls. I usually send poll to employees getting reviews related to diffrent work load and Yes, This tool helps extremely. 100% recommended and should be used.
Cons
It has nithing which I dont like. Have all the features. Wish It could have something like scraping data from the polls and separately targetting them.
- Industry: Law Practice
- Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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Great for Participation
Pros
I love being able to gauge my audience's reaction in real-time and share this back with them in a minute.
Cons
I don't have any complaints about this software.
- Industry: Education Management
- Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
- Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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Preferable for teachers.
Pros
1. Easy to use, friendly and simple User Interface.
2. Preferable for teachers to set up quick quizzes and test in classes.
3. Appreciate the part that there is a variety of different formats for answers.
Cons
1. Not much of the features are provided with the price of the app.
2. Also, being a student, I cannot afford the paid subscription every semester.
- Industry: Higher Education
- Company size: 5,001–10,000 Employees
- Used Weekly for 1+ year
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Engaging for Participants
Pros
Poll Everywhere was a big hit when we revealed it during a management development session. The participants loved the idea of responding to an interactive activity and viewing their responses in real-time. I would recommend any professional who does presentations to utilize this tool. It brings a new depth to your presentations! The ability to use the app is so seamless and tech savvy as well.
Cons
I would like to see the ability to have more than one multiple choice question displayed at a time. However, it probably wouldn't be as clean and cohesive as possible.
- Industry: Pharmaceuticals
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used for 2+ years
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Poll Everywhere Review
Pros
I like how this can be incorporated into class participation. It is an easy software that can really help with learning for the students. Also I like that there are different ways to take polls which is a nice feature about this software.
Cons
It seems like our professors have a lot of technical difficulties with this software, so I am guessing it is not that easy to use.
- Industry: Health, Wellness & Fitness
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Monthly for 6-12 months
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Great for data collection
Pros
Poll Everywhere is easy to use and eliminates the need for costly remotes/clickers. Users can access the polls and respond via smartphone. I have used Poll Everywhere as a student and also in a professional setting and have never had an issue with it. Results are instant and displayed in a chart which can be easily interpreted.
Cons
For individuals who may not have access to a smart phone or prefer not to use personal electronics for this type of use, data collection may be skewed.
- Industry: Research
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used for 1+ year
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Obtaining people's opinions
Professors in classrooms have used it to collect our opinions and to gauge our understanding of topics.
Pros
Ability to integrate into PowerPoint presentations.
Audience does not need accounts to sign-in, can open link and answer poll (anonymous).
Various types of polls (single words, multiple choice, yes/no).
Cons
Expensive for the features it provides.
Customization can be improved.
- Industry: Education Management
- Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
- Used for 6-12 months
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Review of Poll Everywhere
Poll everywhere is an interactive voting application that provides the student with immediate feedback on responses and offers immediate interaction.
Pros
Poll everywhere is a simple and effective alternative to a similar application as a turningpoint. Poll everywhere does not require a complicated configuration and the display of the results in real time and in response size is a welcome feature.
Cons
Unfortunately, I didn't use Poll everywhere enough to find failures in it. Maybe he doesn't have one after all.
- Industry: Hospital & Health Care
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Monthly for 2+ years
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Great tool for large meetings
Very quick and easy to create and setup polling for a presentation of any size. People love the interactivity it brings to otherwise dull presentations.
Pros
Easy to setup and use. User friendly for the admin as well as the participants. Voting is really easy from a computer or a mobile device.
Cons
Would be nice to be able to configure more. Nicer graphics (looks quite a bit outdated), a little more flexibility on how to display results would be nice as well
- Industry: Higher Education
- Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
- Used for Free Trial
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I actually like this product!
I used this product about two times and came away with it very impress with the ability to show real time results of poll questions
Pros
I like the way the product allows the users to interactive with one another when polling questions during events
Cons
I wish the free trial version would allow more users during the trial run and not limit the amount of users
- Industry: Health, Wellness & Fitness
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used for 1-5 months
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Good for collecting live responses
Overall, I had a positive experience with Poll Everywhere.
Pros
I enjoyed being able to collect responses in real-time with the audience. It was good to better understand the audience.
Cons
I didn't like the format of the software as much as I could have. However, it serves its purpose well.
