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If you're using Poll Everywhere 2.0 for grading, participation tracking, or attendance, setting appropriate audience restrictions is essential. These settings ensure only authorized participants, such as enrolled students or organization members, can respond to your activities.
What Are Audience Restrictions?
Audience restrictions control who can access and respond to your Poll Everywhere activities. When a restriction is applied, participants must log in using their email address and password before they can respond.
This helps:
Ensure data accuracy for grading and attendance
Prevent unauthorized or duplicate submissions
Align responses with participants in your LMS course or organization
How to Set Audience Restrictions
You can apply audience restrictions while creating or editing a poll:
Navigate to the activity or presentation.
On the right-hand panel, click the "people" icon to open audience restrictions.
Choose from the following restriction options:
Your organization: Only users within your organization can respond.
Specific team or user group: Limit access to members of selected teams or groups.
Course-based restriction: Restrict participation to enrolled students in a selected course.
Once applied, the restriction affects all questions in the activity or presentation.
If you select a course restriction, only students enrolled in that course will be able to participate during the session.
When to Use Audience Restrictions
We strongly recommend enabling restrictions when:
You're collecting attendance through Poll Everywhere
Activities contribute to course grades
You need to prevent non-students from responding
You're tracking participation for compliance or engagement
Note: If you select a course restriction, only students enrolled in that course will be able to participate during the session.Participants who are not logged in, or who do not meet the restriction criteria, will be blocked from responding. Changes made to audience restrictions are applied in real-time.