Many teachers also use Poll Everywhere for a workaday purpose: attendance. This post shows you how to take attendance using Poll Everywhere. You’ll learn how to take attendance, and check the results.

Step 1: Ask your attendance question

An attendance question is simply a nonsensical, multiple-choice poll with no clear right answer (such as the one below). You will present this question to your students, and then simply state aloud which response is correct. In theory, only the students in class will respond correctly.

Here are some additional tips for making an effective attendance question:

• Enable registered participants only to ensure only your students can respond.
• Set one response as correct by clicking the checkmark icon on the poll editing screen.
• Include lots of responses to decrease the likelihood of someone guessing the right answer.

Step 2: Review attendance scores

After your students respond to your attendance question, you can run a report showing exactly how each person answered. We suggest to use Gradebook to get the attendance scores.

To create a new Gradebook report, head over to My Polls and select Reports at the top. On the next screen, select Create report followed by Gradebook. Lastly, choose your attendance question and click "Finish".

Your completed report will appear after a few moments. Then, the report will shows the scoures, participation and attendance for those attended students.

Note For how to create a report, please refer to 8.3 Create a New Report on Poll Everywhere User Guide for Teachers