FAQ

Q1: When asking open-ended questions, how can you avoid embarrassing experiences, e.g. responses of profane, obscene context or/and personal attack directed to specific person?

A1: Use moderation to filter every and each response made by students, or start with less ambitious question types, such as multiple choice and ranking, to build up the trust system between teacher and students.

Q2: In the open-ended type production, is the display selection of answer (i.e. text wall, word cloud, cluster or ticker) irreversible once decided?

A2: The answer display method is changeable at any given time, with only few clicks at visual settings.

Q3: Why is there often failed log in?

A3: Do not rush to enter the password. Wait till the single-sign-on appears as soon as you type out the campus email address, and it will redirect you to log in on portal.

Q4: How to deal with students’ anxiety about user anonymity?

A4: Use incognito SRS tools, e.g. Kahoot & TodaysMeet.

Q5: How to prevent students’ wearout effects?

A5:  Do not exploit SRS – ask questions where needed only. Overdependence on one particular poll type or tool is not suggested. Be dynamic.

Q6: Can the polls be automatically locked and unlocked?

A6: For individual polls, it is facile with barely few clicks on the design board; however, survey questions need to be tended by manual.

Q7: Can survey questions and choices be randomized in correspondence with different respondents?

A7: It is one of the potential improvements Poll Everywhere can make in the near future.

Q8: Can the system generate a gradebook report for survey?

A8: Definitely a positive, and this implies that teachers can use survey as a distance test.

Q9: Do the correct answers of polls remain correct after converted into a survey?

A9: There is no intervention to the answer in the course of conversion.

Q10: Can a MC poll question in a survey come up with multiple correct answers?

A10: Only can the respondent choose one among all the correct answers, unlike the situation when answering to an individual MC poll question.