Editing Activities in Poll Everywhere

Manual editing is ideal to change the settings of one specific Activity. Manual editing can also have activity type-specific settings.

Edit an Activity

After you have finished creating an activity, you can edit it to access advanced customization settings. To find these:

1. Access the Activities tab on the left-hand navigation
   
   
    
2. Here, you will see a list of your activities
3. Select the three “more” dots > Edit beside the Activity you want to edit
   
   
    
4. Here, you can edit the title, options, timer, response settings, and more. To explore these in-depth, see Options under Edit
5. After you have finished making changes, select Save
   
   

Options under Edit

Once you are editing the Activity, you have many options to customize it before presenting it to a class meeting.

How People Can Respond

There are two ways that participants can respond: through the web, and through SMS. At least one must be selected so participants can join and respond to the Activity.

Website

If the Website option is selected, participants can either scan a QR code generated by Poll Everywhere or follow a link with the instructor’s username. This also applies if participants have the Poll Everywhere app installed.

SMS

If this option is enabled, participants will text the presenter's username to a provided text message number. This number is provided upon activation of the Activity and depends on your location.

Audience Restriction and Identity

There are two options under the “Who Can Participate?” header. Depending on which option you choose, the options under the “How Do You Want to Identify Participants?” header will change.

Everyone

Allows anyone with the instructor’s link or username (if SMS) to join. If you select this option, you can opt to require a screen name for participants when they join the activity.

Restrict to Registered Participants Only

Requires users to log in. If you select this option, you can opt to have participants identified by their registered name and email. This is important to have enabled if you will be using Poll Everywhere for graded activities.

Response Settings

Response settings allow you to customize how responses are recorded and how participants engage with responding.

Each Person May Respond

• A certain amount of times, the minimum being 1
• As many times as they like

Each Option May Be Selected

• A certain amount of times, the minimum being 1
• As many times as they like

Participants Result Chart

• Show participant results publicly after they answer it
• Do not show results

Change Answer

• Allow changes to answers after submitting
• Do not allow participants to change answers

Show Activity Title

• Show the Activity title on participants’ devices
• Do not show Activity title on participants' devices

Custom Reply Message

You can create and enable a custom message that appears after participants reply to the Activity.

Timer

Set a timer to limit participant response time. You can turn it on or off, and can customize the minute and second count.