Poll Everywhere Blog

We have a nice variety of small enhancements that you guys asked for.

Copy Polls

Professors, professional trainers and public speakers - here’s your dilemma: You have your favorite SMS poll.  You use it again and again.  But you don’t like having to save off old data and clear your votes or responses just to use a poll with a new audience.  This will help you save that retyping.

Polls Scale Up and Down Better

In the past, poll font sizes stayed the same in absolute terms whether your poll was 20% of your screen or 100% of your screen.  Now polls behave better when scaling, letting you do cool things like this 4-poll-in-1 PowerPoint slide example.

RSS for Results

Large digital displays and billboards for advertising often accept RSS feeds as data inputs for scrolling news tickers.  Now every marketer with access to digital signage can create their own Text Message Ticker feed.  It makes SMS-to-Billboard a much easier project, and makes developer mash-ups easier.

User Summary

You purchased Poll Everywhere for the entire company - now how do you know who’s using it?  Your accounts page now shows you when your users logged in and how much they’ve been using their text message surveys and polls.

Hide Stuff to Use PowerPoint’s Slide Title, or do SMS Picture Polls

In a Poll’s chart options, you can turn off the poll title and the text for the choices, mostly for use within PowerPoint.  This is also useful for science educators who need students to pick from chemical structures or graphical equations.

This means you can make slides the way you want to - with the question as the title, and pictures or illustrations for each option.  If you’re doing an SMS-Idol style competition, or taking a vote for a favorite band or company, you can use their logo to visually reinforce the option.