Poll Creators: Export graded poll responses to the Canvas Gradebook

Last updated: October 1, 2024
NOTE:  If you have enabled the new Course Management feature (details about this are in our Updates section) and have applied the feature to a course, you should not use this method to export grades to Canvas.  You should instead use the Grade Synchronization method described on Poll Everywhere’s website to export grades to Canvas. 

You must have at least one participant group created using the new import process to export grades to Canvas.  Please review Poll Creators: Import Students/ Participants in Canvas to learn more.

To run a Gradebook report, polls must have at least one response marked as Correct.  Only Multiple Choice and Clickable Image polls can be set up this way.

There are 3 options for generating a Poll Everywhere Gradebook report:

Creating a Poll Everywhere Gradebook report in Canvas

    1. Go to the Poll Everywhere link in the left-side course navigation.
      Canvas course with "Poll Everywhere" course navigation link annotated with a rectangle
      If you haven’t done so already, log in to Poll Everywhere (learn more about logging in).
    2. In the center of the page that loads, click the Continue to canvas.uw.edu button.
      Poll Everywhere tool in Canvas with the "continue to canvas.uw.edu" button highlighted.
      This will open a new browser tab with the Poll Everywhere page associated with your course.
    3. To generate a new gradebook report, click the Add new gradebook button on this page. Existing Gradebook reports you have created for this course will also be listed here and can be clicked on to access.
      Poll Everywhere Canvas course page highlighting the "sync roster" button, but also shows the "add new gradebook" button and the list of available gradebook reports associated with the course.
    4. In the right-side panel that opens, select the Gradebook report and then the poll activities you wish to include in your report. If you are generating a new report on the Poll Everywhere Reports page, click Create Report to open the menu.
      Menu showing the Gradebook report option from the list of available reports.
    5. For polls you have created, select My Activities. For polls that you conducted that were shared to you by another user (see Poll Creators: Share Polls with TAs, Designers and Other Instructors) select Shared with me.
    6. If you have organized your polls into folders, open the appropriate poll folder, then select the polls for which you wish to run the report.  You can also select an entire folder.
               
    7. Click Create report.
      The report shows response data for each poll in the report.

      1. Once you’ve created the report, you will see the list of participants who have responded to at least one of the polls in the report. To see the entire course roster, go to the menu on the right, expand the Participants pane, and choose the participant group associated with the Canvas roster you imported into Poll Everywhere. This ensures that you are seeing response data for every student in the course, not just those who responded.

             
      2. If you are running a report on polls you shared to another presenter or polls that were shared with you, you will need to select the appropriate presenter from the Select presenter pane on the right side menu.
      3. To update the report after any changes have been made (e.g., re-syncing the participant group tied to the Canvas course roster) click Update report.
      4. To give the report a title, click Rename (single polls in a report will use the poll title/question, multiple polls are titled “Untitled” by default).  


        To save the new title, click Done.

        We recommend renaming the report because when the report is exported to Canvas the report title provides the name of Canvas assignment.
    8. Click the Export option at the bottom right side of the page to push the scores directly into Canvas as a graded assignment.
      Export option buttons in a poll everywhere report. Options are Download, Export, and Print.
      If prompted, select the course from the dropdown list that appears. Only Canvas courses from which you have imported a roster to Poll Everywhere will be shown (Note: the Legacy LMS roster import process on the Add Participants page is no longer available).
      Window showing the menu to choose a Canvas course when exporting Poll Everywhere scores to Canvas.
      You may choose Grade or Participation. Grade will export points for correct responses.  Participation will export points for any responses, correct or incorrect.
      Window showing the menu to choose a Canvas course when exporting Poll Everywhere scores to Canvas. After choosing the course, the next options are to choose grade or participation.
      Click Next.You will prompted to set the point value of the assignment created in Canvas, the default is 100 points (which will create a 100 point assignment in Canvas).  UW Learning Technologies recommends changing this value to reflect the number of polls in your report. One poll = one point, and so on.
      After choosing grades or participation in the export, the next option that appears is to enter a point value
      Click Next.
    9. The grades will export to Canvas as a new assignment in the Gradebook.
      Message stating export to Canvas is complete

Creating a Poll Everywhere Gradebook report from the Participants page

    1. Go to the Poll Everywhere Participants page, select the LMS Courses link.
      The Poll Everywhere Participants page with the "LMS Courses" button highlihgted.
    2. On the LMS Courses page, select the course for which you want to create a Gradebook.
      LMS Connections page in Poll Everywhere. Canvas Course title button is highlighted.
    3. Go to step 3 in Creating a Poll Everywhere Gradebook report in Canvas.

To export response data to a .CSV file, use the Download option.