If your presentation slide deck contains polling questions, the buttons below the question/answer area let you close or reset the poll, show responses to students, and display the correct answer (if there is one).
The buttons are shown in the figure below.
From left to right, the buttons are:
- Total number of submissions / total number of students in the course. This is not a button but a panel that shows how many students in the course have responded to this poll.
- The Hand Icon - this button closes the poll to additional responses. You can close and then re-open the poll if necessary, or close it and leave it closed. Students will see a Poll Closed button on their view of the polling slide. You must close the poll in order to show the correct answer (see Checkmark Icon below).
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The Bar-graph Icon - this is the show results button that displays the responses submitted to this point.
If a user has not yet responded to the poll, they will not see the exposed responses until they do.
- The Checkmark Icon - this is the show correct answer button and exposes the correct answer (if one is identified) to all users. This button is disabled until the poll is closed (click the Hand icon to close the poll). This prevents students from submitting a response after seeing the correct answer (unless the instructor reopens the poll). This button is grayed out in the figure below because the poll is still open.
- Reset poll - this button refreshes the polling question and clears all current responses. This allows (and requires) students to respond again.
If you provided feedback for the poll, it is shown to students (those who have responded) after you close the poll (click the hand icon), and the correct answer is shown (click the checkmark icon).
Students can also respond to polls via SMS (text), as long as they are registered for the class and have provided their mobile number in their account profile (so the system can recognize the responder).
The phone number and activity code (GMUB in the above figure) for SMS responses are automatically provided on the slide for polls that allow SMS responses.