In a word cloud question, learners respond to an open ended question with a word, words, or short phrase and the results are displayed as they are submitted, showing up larger as duplicate answers are submitted by learners. You can create new questions from within an existing or new Poll Deck.

Creating a Word Cloud Question in a New Poll Deck

1. Log into EchoPoll.
2. Click the Create button and create a new Poll Deck, as shown in the figure below.
3. Name your Poll Deck and click Create.
4. From the dropdown, choose Word Cloud, as shown in the figure below.
5. Enter a Question.
6. In the Suggested Answer field, add keywords and phrases as terminology that needs to be matched to award points.
7. Add a Key Response Tag by highlighting a key response and choosing Add Key Response Tag. This will show the highlighted text in the Keywords area, as shown in the figure below. You may highlight additional words and phrases by repeating this process.
8. Optionally, you can add an image to your question.
9. You may edit the question Settings for Anonymize Reponses, Scored Question, and Require All Correct, as shown in the figure below.
   If Required All Correct is not enabled, then any correct answer matching a key response will award points.
10. Click the Preview button at any time to preview the question.
11. You may add additional slides by clicking the Add Slide button.