Course Management is a new Poll Everywhere feature designed to simplify course administration. It offers enhanced workflow, participation scoring, and simple roster sync, which streamlines processes like managing rosters, organizing content, and synchronizing grades with your learning management system (LMS). This feature reduces manual work and improves efficiency, allowing educators to focus on student engagement.
Please refer to the following instructions to enable Course Management prior to January 6, 2025. On January 6, 2025, this feature will be enabled for all users.
- Before proceeding, please synchronize your course roster with Poll Everywhere by running the synchronization process through your Blackboard course. Refer to these instructions.
- Log into your account at https://www.polleverywhere.com using your Villanova credentials and click the Profile icon at the bottom left of the page.
- Click on the Features tab, locate "Try Course Management," and enable this option.
- Click the blue button “Apply lab settings.”
- Next, on the left side, click on the Course icon from the course menu.
- From the Courses page, click on one of your courses.
- On the Courses page, please note the option on the upper part of the page which presents the option to turn off the new Course Management Experience by clicking “Revert.”
- Click on the button “Add New Assignment;" a flyout window will appear to activate participation and correctness. Enter the assignment name and configure the participation and/or the correctness requirements. Click Save to add the new assignment. The new assignment will appear in your Blackboard grade book as a new column. (Note: Initially, "sync grades" is inactive until activities are added.)
- If you need to update the assignment settings, you can click the Edit button to make any necessary adjustments. Select an option for participation and/or correctness.
- Once you have saved the assignment, click the Activity button to add existing activities or create new activities. Make sure to click Save to preserve your work.
- Now you are ready to deliver the activities by your preferred method, through Poll Everywhere’s website or through your PowerPoint Presentation.
- Now that you have added an activity, you may now click Sync Grades to start the synchronization process. This is similar to the roster sync process.
- The system will sync grades and display a success message once completed, recording the sync date and time.
- Click View Grades to monitor your students’ progress on the assignment.