Summary

Starting Summer 2025, Poll Everywhere will officially replace Top Hat as OSU’s centrally supported Student Response System (SRS). All OSU individuals will be able to create an OSU Poll Everywhere account. Please contact the UIT Academic Technologies Learning Platform Services team with questions or if you would like to be an early adopter. Please review the Poll Everywhere FAQ for more information. This page will be updated as the Poll Everywhere implementation continues.

Polling Methods for Instructors

There are 3 ways for presenters to launch Poll Everywhere questions:

Key Activity Types

There are 8 activity types that Poll Everywhere provides:

Reporting

There are several types of reports in Poll Everywhere. An integration with the Canvas gradebook will become available in the future.

Response Methods for Students

There are currently two ways that students can respond to their instructors’ Poll Everywhere questions: logging into the Poll Everywhere website or using the Poll Everywhere mobile app.

  • Using the Web: Students can log into the Poll Everywhere web page to respond to polling questions. The Canvas integration available in spring term 2025.
  • Using the Poll Everywhere mobile app: If students prefer to respond to questions using a mobile device, they can download the Poll Everywhere Participant app.

Asynchronous Use

There are several ways to post Poll Everywhere questions asynchronously. A simple two-step option is outlined here:

  1. Use the Poll Everywhere survey feature and share the survey link with students
  2. Copy and share a response link for the survey

Support

Please contact the UIT Academic Technologies Learning Platform Services team with questions or if you would like to be an early adopter.

For technical support, contact Poll Everywhere Support through one of the following options:

Poll Everywhere support staff should get back to you within 24 hours on weekdays. Weekday hours of PE support team are 5am-5pm PT.