Connecting Canvas and Poll Everywhere

In order to use the Poll Everywhere LTI Advantage Canvas integration, you must first Publish the course.

1.   Ensure the course is Published using the button at the top right of the Course home screen.

 

Connecting your course to Poll Everywhere

1.   Go to the course that you wish to connect with Poll Everywhere and click the ‘+ Module’ button. Name the module whatever you like in the subsequent popup window, then click the ‘Add Module’ button to save.

2.   Within your new module, click the ‘+’ button. From the dropdown menu at the top of the popup window, select ‘External Tool’, then select Poll Everywhere. URL and Page Name fields will auto-populate below. Lastly, check the ‘Load in a new tab’ checkbox to and click ‘Add Item’ to save.  If you do not click Load in new tab, it will not work.

 

 

3.   Now, click on the new Poll Everywhere link that you made within the module. You will  see a ‘Load Poll Everywhere in a new window’ button. Click this button to launch the Poll Everywhere connection.

4.   In the new tab, you will be asked to acknowledge you are launching Poll Everywhere through Canvas. Acknowledge the launch. On the next page, you will see a button to ‘Sync roster’ to import the students from your course into Poll Everywhere.

After you click this button, a page will inform you that the participant import is proceeding, and you will see a ‘Go to Participants page’ button. Click the button. Once on the participants page, you will be able to verify that the import took place because there will be a new group named after your course."

 

Re-syncing your roster

You may want to re-sync the participant roster for your course after the initial connection. This may be necessary if students dropped or added to your course in the LMS. Re-syncing will create Poll Everywhere participant profiles for new students and add them to your Poll Everywhere participant group, while removing dropped students from your participants group.

You can initiate the resync from two places: either by launching the LTI connection from the module, or from the Poll Everywhere Participants page. To re-sync your participants from the module, follow the same steps you took in the previous section. The following section will show you how to re-sync the participants from within Poll Everywhere.

1.   Navigate to the Participants page and click on the LMS Courses link.

2.   From the LMS courses screen you will see all of the courses you have connected with the Poll Everywhere LTI Advantage integration. From here, you can sync your students by clicking the button on the right side of the table.