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Integrate Poll Everywhere with Moodle

At a glance

Connect your Moodle unit to Poll Everywhere so you can sync student rosters, create assignments, track grades and manage synced activities. Find out how to sync participants, assign poll activities, enable grading and remove assignments you no longer need.

You can use the Poll Everywhere external tool to sync your Moodle with PollEverywhere. Once synced, you can use the Course Management features to:

Manage student rosters, organise content, and sync seamlessly with your Moodle.
See how each student has responded to your polls activities.
Track and reward student engagement with points-based and percentage-based scoring. These will appear in your Moodle grader report as two separate grade columns for Participation and Correctness, if enabled.
Sync rosters and grades manually or set up automatic syncs.
Set start and end dates of course activities which allows you to reuse polls or activities across semesters but ensure only current-term student responses and participation are included in LMS grade sync.

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1. In Moodle, navigate to the unit that you would like to integrate with Poll Everywhere.
2. In the top right hand corner of the page, switch Edit mode to ON(Blue).
3. In the section where you would like to add Poll Everywhere, click +Add an activity or resource.
  Note: The external tool will be hidden from students.
4. Select PollEverywhere.
5. Students will not access polls via the external tool so it is recommended that you hide the external tool activity. In the Common module settings section, ensure that the Availability is set to Hide on course page.
6. Click Save and display.
7. Click the Open in new window link. This will automatically open the Poll Everywhere website in new window.
8. Click Continue to learning.monash.edu to continue.
9. Click on Sync Roster. The Sync Roster icon will become grey and spin while Poll Everywhere syncs with your Moodle unit.
10. Once the Sync Roster icon becomes blue again, your Moodle unit participants have been synced. Students will receive an email that they have been invited to connect with Poll Everywhere.
11. Click on the Participants icon in the menu on the left hand side of the screen to view all synced participants. If you have made changes to your participant list in Moodle since you first synced your roster, you can update your participants rosters from the Participants page.
Click on the plus icons below to learn more about the participants page
An “Assignment” is a group of Poll Everywhere activities similar to how a quiz contains multiple questions. If enabled, the students “grade” (based on correctness or participation) will appear in your Moodle grader report as a grade column.
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1. Click on the course icon in the left hand navigation menu to navigate to the courses landing page.
2. From the Courses page, you can sync enrolments and add an optional start and end dates. Adding start and end dates allows you to filters LMS-synced assignment responses based on when they were submitted. This can be useful if you:
  - Reuse polls or activities across semesters.
  - Want to ensure only current-term student responses are included in LMS grade sync.
  - Want to manage participation without managing poll-level settings.
3. To set the optional course dates, enter a start date, end date, or both. Then click Set Start and/or Set End to save changes.
4. Click on the unit name to navigate to the Moodle unit’s course page.
5. Click Add New Assignment.
6. Enter the assignment name and configure the participation and/or the correctness requirements. You can choose either or both grading types:
  - Participation: Points for attempting activities
  - Correctness: Points for answering correctly
  For more information, see Understanding Participation and Correctness Grading Options.
  Note: You can't save until you enter the "Assignment Name." However, you can save the assignment name without activating participation or correctness. This can be configured later.
7. Click Save.
8. The new assignment will appear on your Moodle unit’s course page.
9. Under the Activities column, click +Add Activity.
10. Any existing PollEverywhere activities you have created will be displayed in the side panel.
11. Select activities by selecting the checkboxes. Selecting the checkbox for Name will select all visible activities (activities inside folders will not be selected).
12. You can also create new activities from the side pane. For more information, see Create a Poll Everywhere question. If you create new activities, click the refresh icon in the top right corner to update the activity list. Newly added activities should now appear and can be selected with the checkboxes.
13. Once all activities have been selected, click Save.
14. In the Activities column, you will see the number of poll activities assigned to each assignment. You can click on the link under the activities column to open the side pain to review assigned activities and add or remove activities.
15. To remove activities from the assignment, click the X icon beside the activity name.
  Note: This will not delete the activity in Poll Everywhere, just remove it from the assignment.
16. Click Save to save your changes.
  Note: When navigating through nested folders, breadcrumbs will appear at the top of the screen, allowing you to easily backtrack to previous folder levels. If there are multiple subfolders, the breadcrumbs will display them for quick navigation. If subfolders exist, a drop-down appears to help navigate through multiple layers of activities. The master Activities folder will always be visible for easy navigation.
1. From your Moodle unit page, in the Preview Grades column, click on View Grades for the assignment.
2. This will open a page that displays participation and/or correctness settings as tabs, if enabled. Toggle between tabs to view the respective settings. The right hand side panel allows you to toggle on/off participation and correctness setting. Click Update to apply any changes.
Click on the tabs to view an example of the participation and correctness pages
Sync grades
1. To sync grades, click the Sync Grades button for the assignment to start the synchronisation process.
  Note: "Sync Grades" becomes active when activities are in the assignment, and will only appear after grading options (participation and correctness) have been configured and saved.
You can delete Moodle-synced assignments directly within Poll Everywhere. This prevents confusion when assignments are removed from Moodle but still show in PollEverywhere.
To delete a synced assignment:
1. Navigate to your Course Management page.
2. Click on the name of the Moodle unit.
3. In the Delete Assignment column, click the Delete button.
4. A confirmation prompt will appear, informing you:
  - Deletion is permanent and cannot be undone.
  - This action does NOT affect the assignment in Moodle.
5. Confirm deletion.