In this video, you will learn how to do live polling during a
Google slide presentation. And live polling means that when you
are presenting in a conference in a meeting, or you are taking
an online class and you want to ask your audience or your
students a question, during your online presentation, it could be
a multiple choice question, or it could be an open ended
question. Then your audience or your students instantly put the
reply to your question. And all the responses
are analyzed automatically, and
you get a graphical presentation of your board. There are many
applications available to conduct online polling. Most of
these applications allow you to do this in Google Slides in
PowerPoint presentation, or in a video conferencing software. I
cannot cover all this in this video. So therefore, I am going
to cover how to do online polling in Google slide
presentation. The application which I will be using is called
Paul everywhere, which I will get through a Chrome extension.
And at the end of this video, I will show you
two other alternatives to this
application. And I might make some additional videos on the
use of those applications as well. But before I start, if
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videos. So now let's get started. Now this live polling
has certain advantages for online teachers. These are just
a few of them. The first and most important thing is that it
is one of the student engagement activities just like some other
engagement activities such as quizzing, commenting, and
creating annotations and student engagement is the biggest
challenge when you are teaching online classes. So therefore,
including Paul in your presentation is very important.
The second benefit is that you are empowering your students,
you are giving them a voice and they can express their opinion
about your contents if you are carefully crafting your polling
questions. And the third benefit is that you can get some instant
feedback from your students to improve your online course.
However, when you are crafting your questions for online
polling, you should take note of a few things. And these are
listed here. The number one thing is that there must be
an objective for doing this polling.
And you should align your questions with your objective
questions must be very clear. There should not be any
ambiguity in the questions. And there should not be too many
questions. And the third important point is that the
technology tool which you are using should be simple. Of
course, there is some activity the students have to do, they
have to click a link, or they have to send a message because
most of the applications they work in this way, but that
activity should be minimum. And the last but not the least, that
you should select an appropriate time for polling, some questions
are good to be asked in the beginning, some are in the
middle. And feedback must be taken at the end of a session.
And now we have to install a Chrome extension. So I type Web
Store. And I click on Chrome Web Store. And now you type here all
everywhere in the search bar and press Enter. Now this is the
extension which you need to install on your computer. I have
already installed this. So I don't see Add to Chrome button
here, but
you will see a button
Add to Chrome, click on that give some permissions and
install this extension. Now one thing you should note here is
that when you will install this Chrome extension all everywhere,
you will have to open an account with the company. So you will
have to put your name and email address and they will send you a
link in your email which when you will click
then everything will be ready for you.
And once you have created the account and you have installed
the extension, then you simply type slides.google.com and then
you open any of your Google slide document. So I have opened
this Google slide presentation. And on your Google slide
document you will see a tab for everywhere. Normally this tab is
not available. So this tab will be inserted by this Chrome
extension. No, the way it works is like this, you create an
activity either by clicking on this tab or by logging into your
account. And on this window, I have logged into my Poll
Everywhere account. And inside my Poll Everywhere account, I
can also create activities. So if I click on activities, I can
create an activity from here as well, by clicking this button or
this button, I can also create the activity from within my
Google Slides, and I click on this Poll Everywhere. And then I
see this new activity. And all these activities will be stored
in my account, which I can see. And if I have some activities
already stored in my account, then I can click on Insert
activity and select one of those activities. So this is how you
can create an activity and insert an activity. Now the
question is, what are those activities? And what does it
means to insert an activity in your Google slide presentation?
Now I'm going to show you what are the activities available. So
by inserting means that when you insert an activity, the
application will insert a few Google Slides inside your
presentation, you can adjust the position of those slides. And
then when you click on those slides, those slides will
contain the poll. For example, if you have created a question,
it will be shown inside your slides, you will collect the
responses. And that is that will also be shown in a graphical
form in the form of a Google slide in your presentation,
which I am going to show you in a minute. So let us create a new
activity from within our Google Slides. So I click on new
activity. And now these are the activities which are available.
One more thing, I would like to point out that when you open an
account with this Poll Everywhere, you get a free
account, some of these activities are available in free
account, some are not. But the good thing is that as soon as
you get some response to any of your activities, the company
will automatically allow you one month free trial. And during
that trial, you have the opportunity to check all these
activities, whether these are suitable for you, and how
valuable are those for your online classes. And then you can
decide whether you want to pay or not. This is not a sponsored
video, I just wanted to make a few videos about online polling,
because a lot of my followers were asking me to make these
videos. Now two of these activities are very important
for online classes. One is this one, which is a multiple choice
question or a multiple choice poll. And the other is this
competition. In the competition, you can take a test of your
students, if you are a math teacher, you can put 1012
questions, and it will show you how the students perform. You
can also put our time for every question as well. For example,
10 seconds, and the student who puts the answer quickly will get
more score. So each question carries thousand marks and marks
are divided based on the speed and accuracy. So let us make
multiple choice activity. So I click on that, and it will show
me this message your new activities already. And now I
can click on Edit. And no I have the ability to edit this
activity. Let us put a question here. And I am putting just a
random question. And no, I have to give some options.
And if I don't want this fifth option, I can simply delete
this. And you can add more question if you want, but I'm
just using one question. On the right hand side, there are a few
options which you might want to check. For example, whether you
want to allow your participant to change answer, you can limit
the number of responses per person. And there are some more
options. At the end there are two very important things how
the students will going to participate in this activity how
they are going to give the answers and I will show you this
in a minute. But now you can save this activity. So let us
save this and know the activity is ready. It has been saved. No,
you can insert slides by clicking on this blue button.
And I click on Insert slides and then let us select the default
and click Insert slides. Now this one slide has been inserted
here. No these are the instructions which students have
to follow in order to give their response when Paul is active. So
Paul can be activated in two ways. The first is that when you
click this present button, this will become active. And the
other way is that you can make this active From within your
account, and I will show you in a minute. The second thing is
this address Paul ev.com slash digit idea, because I am on a
free trial. So they have allowed me to get this address of my own
choice. Otherwise, they will give you some address here,
which will be a random address, and your students can type that
address from their devices from their smartphone or from their
computer, they can type in the browser, and when they type this
address, they will reach that website where this poll will be
happening. They can give themselves a screen name, any
name they can choose, or if they don't choose, they will be given
a random name, so they don't have to have an account. And
then they will see the question. And they can select the answer.
No, this is my account now. And if I click on activities, my
activity is available here. And if I click on that, I can edit
it from here. If I click Edit, and I wanted to show you how to
edit from within the account, therefore, I have not finished
this activity yet. And can you guess what is missing from here,
the missing bit is the correct answer. So you have to select a
tick mark in front of the correct answer. And now I can
save this, you can also activate it from here. And there is also
a very small message written here that started the
presentation to see the live content, you might not be able
to read this message. But basically it is telling me that
I have to start
the presentation.
So therefore I click on present to make this active. And then
two of my team members will
solve this poll, and we will see the results.
So I click on present. And I'm also getting this poll on my
mobile phone. And I can also select an option from here. And
as you can see that I selected D. So I got a response here. And
one of my team member has selected c option. And no I got
another response. And no because I requested two other people,
and I am the third one. So as you can see that one of us has
given c response. And two of us has given response D and on the
right hand side if I click on show correct, no, this correct
response will be shown to my students. So in this way, if you
want that result to be shown to your students, you can do that.
And now there are two popular alternative to poll
everywhere.com. One is called slider, and the other is called
mentimeter. And hopefully in the future I will make some more
videos about these two applications as well. So this is
how you can conduct a live polling during Google slide
presentation. In the similar manner. You can also conduct an
online test of your students by using the competition activity.
But if you want me to make a separate video for that, please
put yes in the comments and I will make a separate video if I
get few. Yes from you guys. I hope you like this video if so
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Thanks for watching and see you next time.