Polling tools

In-class polling can be a powerful and flexible tool for teaching and a great way of increasing student participation. It enables educators to connect with any size cohort for a range of uses including:

improving student engagement
testing concepts prior to learning checks
collecting feedback on teaching delivery
formative and summative assessment
peer learning

Polling questions can take a number of different forms, for example Multiple choice, Word clouds and ordered rankings. The only “rule” for question design is that each question's structure and content reflect specific learning goals. Questions can even be designed without a “right” answer in order to encourage debate and discussion.

Important notice

From 17 June Monash will be moving to one centrally supported polling tool, Poll Everywhere (PollEv).

From 27 May 2024, all Flux users* will be provided information to migrate their polling activities over to PollEv by the final date of 17 June. As a result, we ask you not to create any new Flux polls after 13 May.

*Excludes Faculty of Engineering (Monash Australia) and some Monash Malaysia schools who have made - or are exploring - financial arrangements to continue separately on Flux.

Frequently Asked Questions

Keeping in line with Moodle as a gateway to learning, we want to maximise our enterprise efforts towards one polling tool that integrates with learning management systems.
- It’s a simple process to upload your Flux content from a provided spreadsheet to PollEv
- You will be emailed your personal migration spreadsheet containing all of your Flux activities on 27 May, along with step-by-step video and text migration instructions
- There are limitations to how Flux is outputting data which means all polls appear in one list without division by units or sessions. Note though, PollEv has grouping functionality to organise this and provide access to collaborators
- Images and some code aren’t accepted in the bulk PollEv upload, but these will be provided as links in your migration spreadsheet. You can quickly refer back, to manually insert these as you make an old poll live again
- There is guidance on Teach HQ to support you in using Poll Everywhere to create new polls.
- On 20 May, you will be emailed new Teach HQ video and text content guiding you in this once-off migration and how to do equivalent polls in PollEv, complete marking and more
- This change is being supported for university educators through faculty learning management system administrators, for professional staff and through ServiceDesk and Monash College staff through Design.Innovation@monashcollege.edu.au
Polls created from 1 January 2021 to 13 May 2024 will be included in your migration document.
We ask you create new polls in Poll Everywhere. View the Use Poll Everywhere guidance page to see quick videos guiding you to create a Question & Answer poll, Word Cloud or a multiple choice question. That page also has detailed PollEv user guides for advanced use.
You can also keep creating polls in Flux over that period up until 16 June with the consideration that the content won’t be in your migration spreadsheet but you can move across yourself manually. This may involve doing some copy-pasting and downloading images or code yourself. Please be aware that those new Flux polls won’t be available after the 17 June switch-off though, and plan accordingly.
We need to lock off all content to be included in your bulk personal migration spreadsheet on 13 May to allow time to do the mass reporting out of Flux, sort the data, then allow your faculty administrator time with those spreadsheets before we email yours to you on 27 May.
We have automated as much of the process as possible given that Flux does not provide administrative access across other people’s polls. Additionally, the content within polls is teaching content and will need your eye to understand what you need to keep.
Yes. The only caveat is that Sentiment Flux polls will come across to PollEv as Multiple Choice polls. If desired, you can rebuild sentiment flux polls as PollEverywhere clickable image activity type using the emotion scale template, which looks and functions in a similar way.
All images used in Flux are linked in the file we will provide and instructions how to download with your personal migration spreadsheet.
Your faculty administrator can set up teams on your behalf on request. Once set up you will be able to add team members to your team as collaborators. Once you have finished setting up your teams, you can begin sharing activities with your teams. See this PollEverywhere guide for instructions.
This is a known behaviour within Poll Everywhere that limits your polling "titles" (questions) to 255 characters to ensure the information can be presented effectively in visuals and reports. Simply, the bulk upload will not work because the system cannot accept titles that are longer than this. To review the data in your .CSV file to ensure that the import process goes smoothly, see the following guidance.
Unfortunately you cannot upload images with the CSV importer. Your image will be displayed as an URL. Instead, once your poll question has been imported to PollEv without the image, you can then add the images back in by editing the question(example below).
To review the data in your .CSV file to ensure that the import process goes smoothly, see the following guidance.
Unfortunately a limitation of the data provided by flux is it does not contain Unit or group. We apologise for that limitation.

Expand the accordions below to read about the benefits of using in-class polling and tips for polls in teaching.

Benefits of using in-class polling View

Tips for using polling View

Education Performance Standards Framework

You can use the tabs on the left-hand side menu to navigate between the sections or click on the links below:
1. The How-to section provides you with instructions and/or strategies to implement in your teaching
2. The Supporting your students section provides you with key strategies for creating a good learning experience and a list of resources to share
3. The Related resources section provides you with additional resources
Caldwell J. E. (2007). Clickers in the large classroom: current research and best-practice tips. CBE life sciences education, 6(1), 9–20. https://doi.org/10.1187/cbe.06-12-0205

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The Education Performance Standards identify the expectations of education practice at Monash – See the Education Performance Standards for more details.
Impact on student learning				Impact on educational knowledge		Impact on educational environment
Effective teaching and learning	Responsive program design	Student- centred orientation	Professional learning engagement	Pedagogical content knowledge	Education research performance	Education innovation	Education leadership
✓		✓				✓
You could address these Practice Elements by providing evidence of how you: Demonstrated ability to use engaging and active approaches to teaching and learning through the use of polling tools Demonstrated contributions to development of activities, units and courses in line with current best practices, for example create engaging online synchronous polling activities Demonstrated contributions to support positive student learning experiences in practice, for example create Zoom drop in sessions or schedule support meetings with your student to discuss feedback Utilised polls to gauge student understanding of concepts and adjusted teaching practices accordingly

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Polling tools

Important notice

Frequently Asked Questions

Benefits of using in-class polling View

Tips for using polling View

Polling as a learning tool

Polling as an assessment

General Tips

Your feedback matters

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