Sample IDC Session Presentation

Instructor Development Course Using Polling Questions in Class

Note: This deck includes animations, but the screens are intended to make sense in Normal viewing mode. However, there are animations that show the progression of field entries when adding, saving, and editing poll questions. If you want to see those builds, you will need to view the presentation in View Show mode.

Objectives

When you complete this course * , you should be able to:

Conduct polls in a WebMeeting and report the results

Use pollling questions to improve the effectiveness of your training

Use polling questions to improve student participation in your classes

*Note: This session is only one component of the complete course.

Expectations

Close all other applications.

Give me your full attention for 1 hour and I’ll let you go in 1 hour

Open your WebMeeting Participants panel (select on View menu).

Locate your Raise Hand button

Participate!

For Those Who Asked for a Basic Overview

Key tasks

Create polls

Open a poll

Share results with participants

Save the results

Forward the results

Also

Determine who has/has not responded

Edit questions

Use folders to select/omit questions during class

Add Questions

Select question type

Click New

Text entry box will appear in Poll Questions window

Add Questions

Create a question:

Type the stem and press Enter (there is a character limit).

Type the answer options.

Click New to add another question.

To change the question type, select a new type and click Change Type .

You can use different question types in the same poll.

Open the Poll

For ad hoc polls during class, type the question and click Open Poll immediately.

Click the Open Poll button

The active poll will display in participants’ Polling panels

To Save a Poll

Click the Save icon

Save window will open showing the atp file.

Navigate to the folder where you want to keep the poll, name the file, and click the Save button.

Default name is “Poll [n]”

Poll text will remain displayed in the Poll Questions window until you clear it.

Tip: If you allow the system to save to a default folder, look for it in the WebEx folder. Instructor Development Course: Using Questions in Class © 2006, Dawn Drake Recommendation: Create a poll folder for the class at a high level on your desktop for easy access.

*Folders Are Your Friends!

Folders let you:

Save and retrieve poll results

Pre-load polls for future meetings

Edit saved polls

Be flexible with the question sets you open in a class

1 Folders containing saved polls allow you to select which question sets you will use during a class. Name poll (atp) files for easy recognition to provide flexibilty during class. Instructor Development Course: Using Questions in Class © 2006, Dawn Drake

You are preparing for a class that you will deliver next week.

Which of the following statements is true?

You must wait until the day of the training to create the polls in WebMeeting.

You can create the polls in WebMeeting today, and then open them next week.

Load a Saved Poll

Click the Open icon

You can do this from a blank Poll Questions window or from one that is already populated

Select the atp poll file that you want to use (if necessary, navigate to the folder), and click the Open button

Question(s) in the selected poll file will appear in the Poll Questions window

Open the Poll

Click the Open Poll button

The active poll will display in participants’ Polling panel

Participant must click on Submit to send answers

Monitor Responses

Click the Polling status buttons to see who is responding

Click the Close Poll button when all responses are in

*To Save Poll Results

Make sure the poll is closed.

Anything you do now will prompt you to save the questions .

Click the Save icon.

The Save Poll Questions As window will appear! You can Save or Cancel.

Next, the Save Poll Results As window will open

File type is .txt

Default name is “Untitled Poll Results”

Assign a name and navigate to the folder where you want to save the results

Will open to last folder used, so set up and open the folder you want to use before class starts

You can rename the .txt files after the class

To Que Up a New Poll

Make sure you have saved the results of the current poll!

Depending on what is showing on your screen:

Click button

Click button

Click the icon and load a new poll

Or type a new ad hoc question

*To Edit Polls

To correct text when you aren’t actively using the poll, simply click in the line to be edited and type

To delete or rearrange questions, or to edit text after you close a poll, click the Edit Questions button (Save requester will appear)

Edit question icons activate

Click on the line you want to edit

Click the Edit icon

Type revised text

Save

Who can create/open a poll?

Host only

Presenter only

Host or presenter

Don’t know

You have saved a poll in WebMeeting and now you want to edit it. Can you navigate directly to the saved file on your hard drive and make the edits, WITHOUT opening WebMeeting?