TrustRadius Insights for Poll Everywhere are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.
Recommendations
Users recommend trying the free version of Poll Everywhere before considering a purchase. They suggest using Poll Everywhere for interactive polling in classrooms or presentations and integrating it with PowerPoint or Google Slides for best results. Poll Everywhere is recommended for engaging any audience, and the free version is suitable for polling groups of less than 40 people. It is highly regarded by educators at the undergraduate and graduate level, as well as for small to large groups. Users find Poll Everywhere easy to use, with a short learning curve, and appreciate its budget-friendly nature compared to other audience response systems. They also recommend it for collecting and presenting data from any size group of people, and praise the feature of submitting texts as poll answers. Additionally, users find that Poll Everywhere can be used effectively for gathering thoughts and brainstorming activities. It exploits existing mediums, especially mobile devices, for a faster experience. In summary, Poll Everywhere is considered one of the top poll applications available.
Poll Everywhere is used by our organization for class instruction. It assists instructors to get information from students on certain topics.
Pros
Class instruction
Quiz
Team building and group assignments
Cons
Free option needs to add more options
Likelihood to Recommend
It is well suitable for class assignments where you want the class to see other participant's responses. It may not be too great when you have only a few responses. I believe it is more useful when there are a larger amount of participants. Also, there needs to be internet access.
Poll Everywhere has been an effective presentation and audience engagement tool across my organization and has been found to be effective for use in the classroom, online and in staff facing events and training. It is extremely easy to use and it integrates well with existing Powerpoints. Because of its 'Bring Your Own Device' model, the pre and post event setup is very minimal. If you are a speaker or educator who gets frustrated with your audience constantly getting distracted by their smartphones you will find this to be an excellent tool to leverage.
Pros
No need to distribute or account for 'clickers' -- PollEverywhere works with any device, even an old fashioned flip phone
Because the polls are URL based you can engage with both an in-person and remote audience at the same time
PPT Integration is very easy, even for novice technical users
Analytics are strong, if you choose to require registration you can really drill down on where certain responses are coming from
Innovation -- Poll Everywhere is always rolling out new features and poll types. The most recent feature of group 'competitions' can add a fun gaming element to any class or event.
Cons
While you can technically embed a poll into a website on LMS, the features are rather limited. Embedding multiple polls in different sites/courses from one account has been problematic. Users tend to default to something like Google Polls or Qualtrix instead
GradeCenter integration with our LMS (Blackboard) while possible, is not as robust as we'd like to see
Some of our users have felt limited by the only being able to do one poll at a time. We have not found a great way to collect multiple polls at once or to create user-paced polls
Managing groups of users (in our case classes) using the same poll set can be cumbersome.
Likelihood to Recommend
<b>The reasons to use Poll Everywhere:</b>
1. Get rid of those clickers! They eat batteries, need constant maintenance, and ofter walk off at a monetary loss.
2. The pricing model is really easy to manage, the campus/company license will pay for itself even if you only have 5-10 active users.
3. Stop fighting mobile devices in your classroom and start leveraging them. Students can't mess around on social media, texting etc if they are in the PE app.
<b>Then situations where Poll Everywhere wouldn't work as well:</b>
1. Not great for multiple part, asynchronous polling, or data collection
2. Areas where there is a limited or absent internet connection.
3. Situations where an audience would lack basic technology such as a cell phone or laptop.
We adopted Poll Everywhere institution-wide after it was used successfully by one of our schools. The need arose for a less expensive, device-agnostic audience polling device for student engagement and formative assessment - Poll Everywhere met that need. Faculty use Poll Everywhere in different ways, including to gauge readiness at the start of a class, to see where concepts might need clarified, and to engage students in discussion and class decision making.
Pros
Stellar customer service/tech support
User-friendly question creation (just a few clicks)
Consistently making improvements based on user feedback
Offers pretty robust free version that we can share with our teachers in training
Cons
SSO integration could be a little smoother
LMS grade integration requires many steps, sometimes frustrates faculty
New quiz/gaming feature is still not as good as Kahoot - some technical issues in presentations
Likelihood to Recommend
Poll Everywhere might be a good fit for institutions that have historically relied on "clicker" devices, but are now faced with financial and administrative challenges as clicker companies move to cloud/subscription-based services. Poll Everywhere helped us out of a bind by offering a less expensive alternative and allowing us to rely on the devices most students already have in hand. We also collaborated with Poll Everywhere on usage ideas for users who do not own mobile devices; they helped us consider how we might use other university technology and methods to ensure no student misses out, regardless of what device they own.
We primarily use Poll Everywhere as a tool in some of our real estate classes. We offer a number of courses via webinar, and are looking into expanding that and making our webinars more interactive, and Poll Everywhere has been one method that we've used in order to encourage participation and interaction among not just the attendees via webinar, but also with the instructor as well as students in the classroom being presented via webinar.
Pros
It's deceptively simple to use. Showing how to use the features, create & modify questions, and viewing polling data, is much easier than it first seems.
There are a surprising amount of alternate ways to poll users and present questions in more ways than just "Question and 2-4 possible answers." It's pretty easy to customize.
It's very, very, very easy to use as an attendee. There's not anything complex or invasive in order to sign in and vote in polls.
Cons
I wish it were easier to group and store reports of polls. That's one area, in terms of verifying a user has participated, that's a bit of a pain.
In addition to my first point, I wish that when attendees vote via text, that they are required to put in a name much like the browser version. Part of how we use Poll Everywhere is to verify attendance and participation and this could be I think a little easier to do.
Likelihood to Recommend
It's very handy in a classroom style setting. I'm interested in playing around with other features such as word clouds and other voting methods in order to catalyze more webinar discussion and participation. I think that it is a useful tool in enhancing and supplementing presentations, though with that said, it's only really handy when presenting new information or making a point in real time. Some business-related scenarios don't really lend themselves well to live response and too much of this I think could get distracting from an actual lecture or presentation (since you're ENCOURAGING attendees to be on their phones/computers).
