Every so often, I speak with a Poll Everywhere presenter who uses the product without the aid of a presentation screen. No projector. No giant monitor. Nothing. How do they do it? The first part is simple enough: They tell the audience, out loud, to visit their Poll Everywhere URL. There the audience responds as normal. But showing everyone the results isn’t so simple. The solution these presenters came up with is to use two lesser-known Poll Everywhere features: Custom reply message and the Live results link.

Set a Custom reply message for each of your Poll Everywhere activities that includes a link to that activity’s live results page. It can be as simple as, “Thanks for responding. See the live results here [URL].” When people click on that URL a web page will open showing the chart or graph that you would normally show in your presentation.