A Note on Terminology: This article, along with many throughout the online help, uses the term "video" to refer to some media. Know that wherever "video" is used, the information and procedures provided also apply to any audio-only files you may have. Interactive media (video/audio with embedded polls) are referred to specifically where applicable.
Polls are activities or questions used as question slides in your presentation slide decks, or as embedded gating questions in your videos. Embedding a polling into a video turns it into a piece of "interactive media". Polls are designed to elicit student responses that you can review later.
Editing polls can be done in three places:
- the presentation editor
- the interactive media editor
- your Library
All three methods of accessing the poll editor are shown in this article.
For details on working with the five different kinds of polls available and the options each contains, see:
- Create or Edit a Multiple Choice Poll
- Create or Edit a Short Answer Poll
- Create or Edit a Numerical Poll
- Create or Edit an Image Poll
- Create or Edit an Ordered List Poll
The REALLY IMPORTANT thing you need to understand about polls is this. Editing a poll in one place does NOT change that poll anywhere else it exists.
As stated in Creating Polls, when you create a poll for a presentation or interactive media, that new poll also resides in your library for use again later. But if you EDIT that poll in the interactive media, the library poll remains the same. And vice versa. The two items, while related at one time, are now two separate objects.
One way to think about it is to consider the polls in your library as "templates". When you add one of those templates to media, you can then edit the details within it to make it specific to the media, without affecting the original. This "disconnect" also allows you to delete unneeded polls from your library without affecting any media they may have been placed into.
Editing Polls in Interactive Media
Editing the polls already resident in interactive media is done from the interactive media editor. To access the interactive media editor, find the media in your library and do either of the following:
Hover your mouse over the media tile, then click on the menu button that appears.
Select More Actions from the menu, then select Edit Polls, as shown below.
OR
Click ON the media tile to open the Media Details page, then select Edit Polls from the command options provided below the playback panel.
Once in the Interactive Media Editor, the Embedded Polls tab is active by default, showing currently embedded polls.
Click on any poll then click the menu button that appears, and select Edit as shown in the below figure. OR you can click the Pencil icon, also identified in the below figure.
From there a pop-up window appears with the details of the poll you want to edit. For more details on working with the various polling activity types see the poll type links at the top of this page.
Editing Polls in Presentations
Editing the polls already resident in a presentation is done from the presentation editor. To access the presentation editor, find the media in your library and do either of the following:
Hover your mouse over the media tile, then click on the menu button that appears.
Select Edit Media, as shown in the below figure.
OR
Click ON the media tile to open the Media Details page, then select Edit Media from the command options provided below the playback panel.
Once in the Presentation editor, hover over any poll then click the edit button (looks like a pencil) located in the top left corner of the slide. This is identified in the below figure.
From there a pop-up window appears with the details of the poll you want to edit. For more details on working with the various polling activity types see the poll type links at the top of this page.
Editing Polls in your Library
Remember: Changing a poll in your library, as described below, has NO AFFECT on the polls already embedded in any media. The Polls in your library are more like templates, re-usable and sharable with other users, that can then be added to presentations or videos/interactive media, then edited there (as described in the above sections of this article) to be specific to the media they are in.
Editing Polls works the same as editing any other media in your library.
Find the item you want to change, hover over the tile and click the Menu button that appears, then select Edit Poll from the tile menu as shown below.
OR
Click ON the tile and then select Edit Poll from the command options below the preview panel, as shown in the below figure.
From there a pop-up window appears with the details of the poll you want to edit. For more details on working with the various polling activity types see the poll type links at the top of this page.