Peer Review

Poll Everywhere App for iOS

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Reviewed:: Feb 29, 2016 by Faculty Development

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Overview:

The free Poll Everywhere mobile app is perfect for responding to polls, presenting polls, and clicking through PowerPoint presentations. Use it to...

1.) Responding to polls: Audience members can use the app to respond to the presenter’s questions live.
2.) Polling an audience: Presenters can ask the audience questions and display poll responses live.
3.) Powerpoint clicker: Presenters can control the flow of Powerpoint presentations using a smartphone as a wireless remote.

This is a free app

Type of Material:

Assessment Tool

Recommended Uses:

Use by students to respond to faculty with questions on a PowerPoint presentation. It has multiple uses, not only in Education but also in economic or marketing contexts.

Technical Requirements:

The user must learn to use the app. Requires iOS 7.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.

Identify Major Learning Goals:

The free Poll Everywhere mobile app is for responding to polls, presenting polls, and clicking through PowerPoint presentations.This app turns an Apple cell phone into a clicker. The app is free.

Target Student Population:

Students with iPhones or iPad; faculty who need clickers

Prerequisite Knowledge or Skills:

The user must learn to use the app. Requires iOS 7.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.

Content Quality

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Strengths:: 1.) Respond to polls: Audience members can use the app to respond to the presenter’s questions live. 2.) Poll an audience: Presenters can ask the audience questions and display poll responses live. 3.) Navigate in Powerpoint: Presenters can control the flow of Powerpoint presentations using a smartphone as a wireless remote. The app prevents institutions from purchasing clickers.
Concerns:: The app is not exclusive for Education, can be used in business or commercial purposes. The app only works with iPhones or iPads

Potential Effectiveness as a Teaching Tool

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Strengths:: Presenters Professors, teachers and presenters can create and display questions on the fly, including Q&A and multiple choice polls. Questions can be presented directly from the web or embedded in a PowerPoint or Keynote presentation. Audience responses are displayed in real-time. Great for classroom participation, or gathering opinions from the audience. PowerPoint Remote Presenters using PowerPoint can use the Poll Everywhere mobile app as a presentation clicker, to navigate through your PowerPoint presentation with ease. It has a slick, streamlined design and a set of polling controls built-in. The use of personal devices for teaching and learning should be considered important. Most students carry one with them anyway, might as well use it for learning.
Concerns:: The app is not an exclusive tool for education, the app has other usability goals. It only works with iPhones or iPads. Students with Android equipment cannot participate.

Ease of Use for Both Students and Faculty

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Strengths:: Key Features: • Create or answer multiple choice, true/false, open ended, ranking poll, and clickable image questions. • Participants are automatically shown the presenter's current question, for quick and easy participation. • Watch results update live. • Click through a PowerPoint presentation with the included Presenter Remote feature The download only takes a minutes, it is free, and using it with PowerPoint appears to be easy.
Concerns:: Needs to work with Smartphones and other devices too.The problem is that the app belongs to the Apple platform.

Other Issues and Comments:: The app has good bases for use in education, however, it can also be directed to other objectives. It is also important to note that the app belongs to the Apple platform and that limits users.
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