Once enabled, instructors can easily create a Zoom meeting when creating an EchoPoll Session.
Refer to Getting Started With EchoPoll and Zoom to enable Zoom for use with EchoPoll.
This feature needs to be enabled by an admin. Refer your organization admin to Integrating Zoom and EchoPoll.
Starting Your Session
- Log into EchoPoll as an Instructor.
- From the My Library tab, select the Poll Deck you want to use and click Start.
The New Session window opens.
- Click the Show Settings link to expand the Session Settings.
- Optionally, click the dropdown under Course Record and select a Course from the list, as shown in the figure below. You can also search for a course.
- Choose a Participation Setting from the dropdown. You can choose from Course Roster, Entire Organization, Guests (sign-in), Guests (public).
- If desired, choose a Join Code from the dropdown. You can choose Random or a previously created, unique code.
- Click the Web Conferencing dropdown and choose Zoom, as shown in the figure below.
- Under Session Settings, enable or disable the toggles for Show results, Show whiteboard, Show chart, and Show leaderboard.
- Click the Start button.
A new tab is opened and you are directed to Zoom.
- Click Open Zoom Meetings, as shown in the figure below.
- Be sure to enable audio and video settings in the Zoom meeting, as desired.
- Provide the Zoom meeting information to your Learners and switch back to the tab where your EchoPoll Session is running.
The Session information is displayed.
- Click Join Link. The Session URL is copied to your clipboard. Provide the Join Link to Learners. Optionally, you can also provide the code from the upper-right corner of the screen, as shown in the figure below.
- Click Start Session, as shown in the figure above. The first slide from your Poll Deck displays.
- Share your screen from the Zoom meeting to ensure that your learners can see the Session.
Conducting Your Session
- If the first slide is a Presentation slide, use the Right Arrow button in the toolbar at the bottom to navigate to the next slide, as shown in the figure below.
- Click the Play button in the toolbar to open the question for responses, as shown in the figure below.
Learners can now respond to the question.
- When answers have been received, click the Stop button.
- Click the Right Arrow button in the toolbar to move to the next question.
- Repeat these steps for the rest of the questions in the Poll Deck.
- When all questions have been answered, click the Exit button, as shown in the figure below.
- In the End Session window that appears, click the End button.
The Session Name defaults to the name of the Poll Deck and the time that you started the Session, as shown in the figure below. Optionally, you can rename your Session.
- The Session is saved. You may click the link to Review Results or simply close the tab.
- You may continue your Zoom meeting after the Session has been ended, if desired.