Poll Everywhere is a web-based application that allows you to embed interactive polls and questions (called Activities) into presentations, including Zoom, to help engage your audience. Poll Everywhere is available to all faculty and staff at UMB.

Accessing Poll Everywhere

To access your UMB Poll Everywhere account, view Accessing Poll Everywhere for full instructions.

• Go to PollEverywhere.com
• Click Log-In in the upper right-hand corner
• Enter your UMB Email address
• Click Next
• Click Log in with your UMID

Follow the prompts to sign-in through SSO and Duo and you will then be directed to your Poll Everywhere UMB account.

How to Use

Poll Everywhere offers self-guided training on various topics.  To view all the training options, visit Poll Everywhere Training.

• Poll Everywhere 101
• Poll Everywhere for Educators
  • Guide: Linking Poll Everywhere to a Blackboard Ultra Course
  • Guide: Linking Poll Everywhere to a Blackboard Original Course
• Poll Everywhere for Zoom

Poll Everywhere Teams & Roles

Poll Everywhere Teams allows a group of users (Presenters) to share activities.  In order to utilize this feature, a Team needs to be created and assigned a Team Leader.

If you are interested in using Teams and being a Team Leader, please contact PollEverywhere@umaryland.edu.

Questions or Issues

If you have any questions or issues, please contact PollEverywhere@umaryland.edu or contact the Help Desk at help@umaryland.edu.