Poll Everywhere is an audience response system licensed by GW's School of Medicine & Health Sciences.
Poll Everywhere provides SMHS faculty with multiple question types including multiple choice, word cloud, clickable image, and open-ended questions. Functionality is also available for Q&A which allows users to respond and then upvote or downvote submitted responses, and competition which also the instructor to create a series of questions and let participants compete to answer fastest.
Poll Everywhere allows students to respond to questions synchronously via an app or webpage, and also permits asynchronous questions (Survey).
For support in learning how to use Poll Everywhere, please contact:
Health sciences faculty can contact:
To get started with Poll Everywhere:
1. Sign up for a Poll Everywhere account.
SMHS faculty can request a Poll Everywhere account from Tracy Thompson (tlthompson@gwu.edu) or Laura Abate (leabate@gwu.edu)
When you receive the emailed invitation, click on the link and register for a Poll Everywhere account.
To use Poll Everywhere with Powerpoint, Keynote, Google Slides, Slack, Microsoft Teams, WebEx, or Zoom:
2. Download and install the appropriate software extension on your computer.
Poll Everywhere has four different types of polls available for use:
The Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library
Questions? Ask us.