EchoPoll provides all of these benefits and then goes beyond them. For example, EchoPoll includes gamification elements incorporating teams and wagers to facilitate a “quiz show” format for review purposes. You can also use incentives such as live leaderboards and badges to encourage individual effort. 

EchoPoll has a great feature called Anywhere Polling, allowing instructors to insert questions into any media and get immediate feedback to track learner knowledge and adjust presentations on the fly. Upload a PowerPoint deck to create a PollDeck, adding small assessments throughout. It’s a great way to develop engagement with video content and online meetings as well. EchoPoll provides real-time engagement scores, too, so you’ll always know if you’re holding your audience’s attention. 

We also recommend repeating polls to make learning more visible. You can start by asking a question and giving students a moment to think it over. Reveal the class’s responses to the entire group. Then, ask your students to discuss their answers with their peers. When the resulting discussion dies down, ask the original poll questions again. The vast majority of students should now have the correct response, allowing them to immediately see the exercise’s benefits. 

If you’re teaching a remote class, you can still incorporate polls. Using the course creation tools within the Echosystem, you can add polls to self-paced assignments for assessment purposes, ensuring students thoroughly understand one concept before moving to the next. You can even lock content behind a poll to ensure students must pass an assessment to move on, preventing them from taking on more advanced information until they are ready. Overall, the robust feature suite of EchoPoll has been found to increase student engagement by as much as a factor of seven!