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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. FREE/PRO |
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Kahoot! : Create class quizzes, discussions, and polls in the form of games. Similar to Poll Everywhere, instructors can create a quiz and project the quiz in class while students use the app on a mobile device or their own computer to play a real time, competitive quiz game. Free. |
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Google Forms : You can also poll, quiz, or collect information using Google Forms. Once there, you can add questions, edit the form layout, and set restrictions. Part of NYU’s Google Apps for Education suite. |
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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. |
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Socrative: a web portal for creating, sharing, and presenting quizzes. A great tool for formative assessment, socrative features an easy-to-use interface that enables quick creation and implementation. Teachers and students log in differently to experience the activity appropriately. Live results are produced and can be immediately shared to students. Watch its overview video. FREE. |
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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. |
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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, browse Qualtrics’ Innovation Exchange site for ideas, or view online training options.
 Slido: Discussion tool allowing your audience to ask questions and vote in polls by using Q&A and a polling tool. FREE/Paid. |
| 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. FREE/Paid. |
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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. |