Video Guide

UQpoll - Quick start guide (YouTube, 3m 34s)

Introduction

UQpoll is a UQ active learning tool that automatically collates student responses to a multiple choice question with five answer options (A to E). The results are displayed as a graph. Students submit their response using a web enabled device (PC, Mac, iPhone, iPad, Android device or other smart phones).

Note: All UQ staff can use UQpoll via the UQ Active Learn suite (tutors will need to login using their staff username and login).

UQpoll questions – Multiple Choice

Questions can be posed:

  • Verbally
  • Written on the whiteboard
  • In a PowerPoint presentation

Tip: Questions can be prepared before lectures or asked impromptu in response to students’ questions. Images and other graphics can also be included in questions.

Note: The question (stem) can be entered directly into UQpoll, however you will be unable to enter in the response options (A to E).

Question example

UQpoll - Instructor view

  1. Browse to the main page to open the UQ Active Learn suite of applications. 
    https://apps.elearning.uq.edu.au/
  2. Click on the CHANGE TO INSTRUCTOR VIEW button.
  3. Click on the relative application from the list (UQpoll in this instance).

Change to instructor view

Select UQpoll

  1. Or, browse directly to the UQpoll - Instructor website where the student responses will be displayed:
    https://apps.elearning.uq.edu.au/poll/instructor/

Note: All UQ staff have their own UQpoll account with a unique Active Learn ID number.

  1. If you are not already logged in:
    • Enter your UQ username and password.
    • Click on the LOGIN button.

Single sign-on

UQpoll setup

  1. Click on the MANAGE button.

Click Manage button

  1. If there is currently a graph displayed, click on the RESET QUESTION button.
  2. Tip: You may want to hide the graph while students are voting, to ensure they are not influenced by other students’ answers.
  3. Click on the HIDE button to hide the UQpoll graph while responses are being entered.

Reset question button

  1. Optionally type your question into the Your Question textbox (maximum 64 characters for textbox).  
  2. Click on the SAVE button.
  3. Click on the MANAGE button again to close.

Add question

 

Note: You will only be able to enter the question (stem) without the response options (A to E).  Therefore you will need to pose the response options either:

  • Verbally
  • Written on the whiteboard
  • In a PowerPoint presentation

Tip: Entering the question (or a shortened way to identify the question posed) into Your Question textbox, will enable you to better search for the question responses using the SHOW HISTORY button for purposes of downloading a record of the student responses in the future.

UQpoll – Student View

  1. Instruct students to browse to their instructors’ (your) UQpoll student view webpage (contribute here) address. 

Student view - web address

  1. Alternatively, students can access the relative application through the UQ Active Learn suite.  Students will need to:
    • Browse to the website: https://apps.elearning.uq.edu.au/
    • Check that they are accessing the applications under their instructors’ (your) Active Learn ID
    • Click on CHANGE ACTIVE LEARN ID button if the Active Learn ID does not match their instructors’ (your) Active Learn ID.

Change Active Learn ID

  • Get students to enter their instructors’ (your) Active Learn ID

  1. Click on the relative application to enter their responses (UQpoll in this instance).

Select application

 

Students should then:

  1. Click on the letter that corresponds with the correct answer.

Select an option

Student View – changing responses

  1. Students can change their response by clicking on a different answer letter option. UQpoll will only record their most recent response.
  2. To stop students from changing their responses, click on the STOP button from UQpoll – Instructor View.

Stop button

UQpoll - Collecting responses

Your UQpoll graph will automatically update as the students enter their responses.

Note: If you browse away from the webpage while students are submitting you will need to refresh the browser to ensure all results are displayed.

  1. Click on the START button to begin /continue collecting student responses.
  2. Click on the STOP button to end/pause responses coming in
  3. Click on the HIDE button to hide the UQpoll responses graph
  4. Click on the SHOW button to view the UQpoll responses graph

Start and Hide buttons

 

Stop and Show buttons

UQpoll display

Your UQpoll graph will automatically update as the students enter their responses.

Note: If you browse away from the webpage while students are submitting you will need to refresh the browser to ensure all results are displayed.

  1. The graph will display the number of students (left hand side) that have entered A to E as their response.
  2. The total number of students who have submitted their response is displayed.

Tip: Hover your mouse over each of the A to E response bars to see how many students chose that answer option.

UQpoll display

UQpoll – Clearing responses

  1. Click on the MANAGE button.
  2. Click on the RESET QUESTION button.

Click on Manage

  1. To clear the current graph displayed, click on the RESET QUESTION button.

Reset question

  1. Refer to UQpoll setup section for details on how to setup a new question.

UQpoll - Saving results

Refer to the Saving results -UQ Active Learn guide.