Overview
Using polling activities in your teaching is valuable to students. Breaking up a lecture with polls helps maintain learners attention and its a great way to measure student comprehension. You can embed polling slides to a scheduled class/Live Stream by adding a Presentation (PowerPoint or PDF) or embed polls into a pre-recorded lecture. Responses can be seen in your library or course in real-time.
Explore how to create polls from scratch, edit, and reuse them in your presentations or videos. Use embedded polls in your synchronous or asynchronous class meetings.
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Embedding EchoVideo Videos with Polls in Canvas
Easily embed videos in a Canvas content window (a plug-shaped icon within Apps). This process embeds a video with polls (known as interactive media) allowing students to playback and participate in a discussion (at instructor discretion). When polls are embedded in a video it plays as normal but prohibits students from viewing sections of the video until they have responded to the poll. All student responses can be viewed or downloaded.
Getting Started with Embedded Polling
Embed Polls in a Video in your Library
Log in to Canvas, open your course and click the link My Echo360 Library in your Canvas course menu. Choose your video from your library and click Add Poll. You can use the playback bar to drag to a specific location or the arrow keys to embed your poll. Select a polling slide in your library. If you haven't used polls in EchoVideo, you can create a new poll to embed (e.g., Multiple Choice, Ordered List, Short Answer, Numeric Activity, Image Quiz).
Important Note: The video with embedded polls becomes a new media type in your library called "Interactive media." This type of media can be embedded in Canvas or published to an EchoVideo course class.
Add Your Video with Embedding Polling in a Canvas Content Window
This is the same process as when you are embedding audio or videos from your library.
- In Canvas, choose the content type (e.g., Assignments, Discussions, Pages, etc.) with the Rich Content Editor.
- Click the Apps button (plug-shaped icon) in the toolbar.
- Select EchoVideo, if you have not added EchoVideo to your list of Apps, click View All.
- All media loads from your EchoVideo library. In the search box, type in a keyword, use the scroll bar, or filter by Type (funnel-shaped icon), select Interactive Media, and Apply.
- Select your video with polls, then choose the size and embedding options and insert it in the Canvas content window. Save and Publish as appropriate.
For more details see this article on Embedding an Existing EchoVideo Video into a Content Window or try this interactive walkthrough; learn how the embedded polling works for asynchronous videos.
For Instructors: Viewing Student Responses
- View Poll Responses. You will see the students that have answered the polls, see overall responses, and date of response. Go to the "EchoVideo Course Analytics" link in your Canvas menu. You may need to unhide it from the navigation to access it. Alternatively, you can access Analytics from within your Library from the Analytics link in the top menu.
- Real-time data. Views and polling responses are provided in real-time. When students have responded to the poll or have not, you can view the results.
For Students: Viewing and Responding to Embedded Videos with Polling
Student tips:
- Viewing a Video with Embedding Polling. Plays like a normal video but prohibits viewing sections of the video until students have responded to the questions.
- Poll markers. Are visible to the student. The video will play until the first poll marker, prompting the student to respond to the poll before they can continue watching.
- Responding to an Embedded Poll. Once a student responds to a poll they are locked and cannot be edited. Learn how students respond to a poll.
- Students' new to EchoVideo? Share the EchoVideo Student Guide with them.
Add Polls to a Presentation
Creating polls in EchoVideo is simple. Once your presentation has been added to a class, you have the ability to add polls to a presentation to access students and check for their understanding. Learn more: EchoVideo: Add an Interactive Presentation
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