Poll Everywhere Importing Students Each Term

Importing is best used when you have to report participation and/or grading. It is not required to import students in order to have students participate in a poll. 

Before you begin

In order to use the Poll Everywhere LTI Advantage Canvas integration (LTI 1.3 version 2.0.0), you must first Publish the course: ensure the course is Published using the button at the top right of the Course home screen.

Connecting your course to Poll Everywhere

The roster does not auto-sync, you will have to resync your roster during the add/drop period.

1. Go to the course that you wish to connect with Poll Everywhere and click the ‘+ Module’ button. Name the module, whatever you like, in the subsequent popup window, then click the ‘Add Module’ button to save.

2. Within your new module, click the ‘+’ button. From the dropdown menu at the top of the popup window, select ‘External Tool’, then select Poll Everywhere. URL and Page Name fields will auto-populate below. Lastly, check the ‘Load in a new tab’ checkbox to and click ‘Add Item’ to save.

3. Now, click on the new Poll Everywhere link that you made within the module. You will see a ‘Load Poll Everywhere in a new window’ button. Click this button to launch the Poll Everywhere connection.

 

4. In the new tab, you will be asked to acknowledge you are launching Poll Everywhere through Canvas. Acknowledge the launch. On the next page, you will see a button to ‘Sync roster’ to import the students from your course into Poll Everywhere.

After you click this button, a page will inform you that the participant import is proceeding, and you will see a ‘Go to Participants page’ button. Click the button. Once on the participants page, you will be able to verify that the import took place because there will be a new group named after your course.