Audience response system
Poll Everywhere is an audience response system that fits seamlessly into the Google Slides presentations that you're already using. Audience submissions appear live in Google Slides, so teachers can check for understanding or gather data in the moment.
Great ways to use Poll Everywhere:
- Use poll everywhere as a warm-up by asking a question like, "In three words or less, what is occupying your brain right now?"
- Encourage collaboration and promote higher-level thinking with a crowdsourced Q&A that lets the students upvote the best entries to the top.
- Add live audience engagement to your direct instruction and give all students equitable access to a response.
- Gather the main ideas of a large audience with divergent solutions to complex problems by generating a word cloud response.
- Check for comprehension, gauge the temperature of the room, or host a real-time voting ballot.
Make a copy (with comments)
Google Docs has a new feature that, with a little tweaking, can give teachers new ways to provide support for students in their assignments. When you make a copy of a Google Doc, you are now able to also copy any comments that are in the document. This can be a creative way to proactively provide additional resources, links, and assistance to your students in their projects. Teachers may include comments with additional directions, hyperlinks to resources, voice recordings from the teacher, or a checklist of items for the student to resolve.
