Slide with Friends: Slides With Friends is an interactive slide deck player and builder. It has ready-to-play game decks to share with the team live, such as quizzes, classroom games, icebreakers, team building, check-ins, polling, and more. It is also a deck builder to create custom interactive presentations for the group to join in and play along. Free plan for hosting up to 10 people. Free/Paid
Polls & Surveys
Wooclap
Wooclap is a real-time polling software that allows instructors to engage with their students and gauge their understanding of the material. Students respond to your questions and polls via a web link on their mobile devices, making this an ideal tool for remote and in-person instruction. Some of the activities offered include multiple-choice, find-a-number, polls, word cloud, and open questions. You can access many features for free but a subscription unlocks more features such as exporting results to a PDF. Free/Paid.
Slido
Slido: An easy way to engage with a live audience, Slido is a discussion tool allowing your audience to ask questions, answer surveys, and vote in polls by using Q&A and a polling tool. FREE/Paid.
Mentimeter
Mentimeter: a web-based presentation platform with live polling features and audience interaction. Presenters can survey the audience with the aid of cellphones (without any additional software) and display results simultaneously. Survey question formats include quizzes, multiple-choice, image-choice, scales, 2×2 matrix, word cloud, open-ended, and others. Option to add instant reaction buttons to increase audience interaction (e.g., thumbs up/down). Mentimeter offers integration with spreadsheet softwares for organizing results, and a plugin for Microsoft PowerPoint. FREE/Paid.
Google Apps for Education
NYU has licensed a set of Google products to handle communication, calendars, file storage, and other teaching and learning apps, according to these Terms of Use. The full suite of Google Apps for Education include:
- Calendar
- Drive (file storage and sharing)
- Classroom (course sites; NYU LMS (Brightspace) is the university’s official LMS)
- Docs (word processor)
- Sheets (spreadsheet)
- Groups (group email)
- Meet (video conferencing)
- Chat (chat within NYU Gmail)
- Sites (website platform)
- Slides (presentation platform)
- Drawings
- Forms (surveys, quizzes, etc.)
Learn More:
- NYU ServiceLink Overview
- Tutorials at LinkedIn Learning
- Group Workshops available through Digital Services at Bobst (see the NYU IT Calendar)
- Group demos at Gallatin available (contact us to request a demo)
Poll Everywhere
Poll Everywhere: Create live polls by asking questions with the Poll Everywhere app. Poll options include multiple choice, free response, true or false, clickable images, and an upvote-style poll. Participants answer in real time using SMS or a web browser. Responses can be viewed on the web or embedded into a PowerPoint or Keynote presentation. NYU Licensed tool. FREE/PRO
Doodle Poll
Doodle Poll: easily and quickly create a free poll and send it off via Doodle’s built-in mailing system or via your own email account. With a yes/no voting system, Doodle Polls simplify scheduling hassles by generating visual representation of all parties’ availability schedules. Option to integrate with Google Calendar. FREE/Premium. No sign-up required.
TypeForm
TypeForm: easy-to-use web-based platform to create online forms, quizzes, or surveys, offering a nice range of customization tools and ready-made templates. You can embed on Web Publishing by using an iframe code that includes the form’s URL as its source. Paid.
Qualtrics
Qualtrics: web-based survey software with multiple features and robust design. Surveys may be distributed via social media, webpage pop-up, mobile, email, and link. NYU community members may use the university’s license for a free account. Go to nyu.qualtrics.com to get started, or view online training options.
Plickers
Plickers: an alternative to clickers that does not require students to purchase any technology. You can create “plicker questions” on the mobile app or on the browser, and, with the mobile Plickers application, decode students’ answers automatically, collecting each of them and tracking each student’s progress via a unique Plicker card. Plickers was designed for in-person instruction but adapted itself to remote and e-learning in recent years.