Polls (Windows only)

Polls  is a feature found in Magic Box available in the Windows version of myViewBoard Whiteboard. Use Polls to create questions in many formats before or during an ongoing session. 

The audience (attendees) can answer using their mobile devices using myViewBoard Companion app or the Whiteboard Portal. 

Poll data (questions, attendees, and responses) can then be viewed in real time or exported. Also, there is no limit to the number of questions created or attendees participating in Polls.

Open Polls

To use Polls in Whiteboard for Windows, complete the following:

1. In the main toolbar, press .
2. In the popup window, press .

User has opened Magic Box from the main toolbar (1) and the Polls tab in the Magic Box window is highlighted (2).

Polls popup with selection of 6 different question formats available.

Create a poll

In Polls, select from four types of questions or a random draw. Add as many questions as you wish, and have students participate through their devices.

Generally, the instructions to create a question is the same across all question types:

1. On the Polls popup, select your preferred question type.
2. Type a Question (required) and Instructions (optional).
3. In the Options box:
   • Add, remove, and rename answer choices, or set question parameters.
   • More response options can be added by pressing + Add option (if applicable).
4. Mark the right option as correct by pressing the checkbox next to it (optional).
5. Set the countdown timer for this question (minimum 30 seconds).
6. Press to finalize and add the question to the poll.
   • The question will now appear in the right-side panel under the Questions tab.
   • Take note of the question ID number.
7. To add another question, press  in the right-side panel.

Question types

Start a poll

Once students are ready to begin responding to poll questions, open Polls. Then, preview the following options before initiating the poll:

• Show questions (at the bottom-right): Set this toggle to ON  to preview questions in the right-side panel.
• Automatically start the next question (at the bottom-right): Set this toggle to ON  if you would like next questions to automatically start after a question's timer has run out.
• Press the Attendees tab to verify which students have successfully joined the polls session.
• When a question is running, you have the following options available:
  1. Press  to allow the attendees to answer the specific question from their devices.
  2. Press   to manually terminate the timer.
  3. Press  to display the result of each question.

Once ready, begin running poll questions:

1. Press the desired starting question. 
2. Press  at the bottom to start the timer for this question.
3. View the number of Responses above the start/stop/list buttons.
4. To move onto the next question (in case all responses have come in already), press .
5. To view the results to a given question, press  to review.

Other actions

When a question has been created, the following actions are available:

1. Press to edit the question.
2. Press to duplicate a question.
3. Press to delete a question.

Edit, duplicate, and delete buttons highlighted on the Polls popup window.

Invite students to join a poll session

Students must first join a session to be able to participate in a poll. Learn how to invite students to your session from Whiteboard to allow them to respond to poll questions.

How students can join a poll session

As a teacher or student, access Polls from a personal device to send answers to an ongoing poll question.

Students have the following two options:

1. Use the myViewBoard Companion app to join a poll session.
2. Access the Whiteboard Portal to join a poll session.

How students can send question responses

Likewise, students have the following two options for sending question responses:

1. Send responses through the Companion app.
2. Send responses through the Whiteboard Portal.

After responses have been submitted

Reviewing response results

At any time, after the response portion of a question ends, teachers can review question results, which offer a percentage breakdown per response option from all responders.

1. Press to view results.
2. Press to enlarge the results page.
3. Press to take a screenshot of the result page and paste it onto the canvas.

User views responses for a question, enlarges the results, and then screenshots the results onto the canvas. Then the user resets the question so responses are no longer available.

Reset a question

If a question has been run already, teachers can reset the question to its original state. This clears all previous answer responses, meaning the previous answer results will be lost unless screenshotted onto the canvas.

To reset a question, you have the following two options:

1. At the top of the question panel, press (next to the duplicate and delete buttons) to reset an individual question.
2. On the right-side panel, press (add a question and export buttons) to reset all questions.

Export Poll results

Aside from screenshotting an individual question result, teachers can also export results for all questions as a CSV file (readable in Microsoft Excel, Google Sheets, and other spreadsheet programs).

1. On the right-side panel, press  (next to the add a question and reset question buttons) to export all answered questions to a CSV file.
2. Choose either to save to local or cloud storage.
3. Select a folder in which to save and overwrite the file name if required.

User hovers over export to CSV button in the right-side questions panel.

User has selected a cloud folder destination in which to export this set of poll results. The user has input a file name. (Confirm button is also highlighted.)

Example of a section of a poll results CSV file, with question type, question, respondents, respondent answers, and time spent on question reviewable.

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