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Microsoft 365: Poll Everywhere for PowerPoint and Teams

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  • Audience: Faculty, Staff, Student
  • Service Category: Email & Collaboration
  • Owner Team: Library IT
  • Service:
    Microsoft 365: Teams, Microsoft 365: PowerPoint

Description

Initiate exciting conversations directly from your PowerPoint slide deck. Create a Multiple-choice activity directly in Microsoft Teams. Use it whenever you need to collect feedback quickly: to prioritize agenda items or assign tasks during a meeting.

Benefits

Poll Everywhere for PowerPoint and Teams

  • Turn PowerPoint decks or Teams chats into conversations: Engage participants – Ask interactive questions that spark impactful discussions. Choose from a variety of activity types, insert them seamlessly into your decks or chats, and watch results come in live on the screen — all without leaving PowerPoint or Teams. 
  • Incorporate audience feedback in real time:  Whether you meet virtually, in person, or in a hybrid environment, Poll Everywhere for PowerPoint and Teams lets you get to know everyone in the audience. 
  • Generate long-term insights: Power decisions with data – Gather audience insights that inform your content strategy, learning goals, and business objectives. Then, run a detailed report to analyze the results. 

Support

Poll Everywhere support and training are offered by the UCSF Library's Learning Technology team. You can also chat with other Microsoft 365 users at UCSF on the Office 365 Team (open to anyone at UCSF - use the join code 7me7twx). 

Training

You can find training videos and tutorials on the Library's Poll Everywhere page.

  • Add Poll Everywhere add-in to Office 365 PowerPoint 
  • Inserting activities with Poll Everywhere for Microsoft 365 
  • Inserting Surveys with Poll Everywhere for Microsoft 365 
  • To learn how to add an add-in to an Office 365 application see View, manage, and install add-ins in Office programs. 

Requirements and Limitations

To access Microsoft 365, you will need a web browser (Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge are recommended for the best experience) and a UCSF email address. 

Related Information

  • Microsoft 365: Teams Training
  • Microsoft 365: Powerpoint Training
  • Microsoft 365: PowerPoint FAQs
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