Competition in Poll Everywhere 2.0

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A Competition is a multi-question game-style poll where participants earn points for correct answers. Scores are tracked in real time and displayed on a live leaderboard between questions. It is designed to drive engagement through friendly competition.

Use case: Knowledge checks, review sessions, training assessments, event quizzes, and any context where engagement and motivation are priorities.

Creating a Competition manually

1. From the Home page, click the Other tab in the poll type selector.
2. Click Competition.
3. A new Competition opens in the editor with default questions and a Current Leaderboards slide already added.
4. Click the Question title and type your first question.
5. Click each Choice field and type your answer options.
6. Mark the correct answer by clicking the ✓ checkmark icon next to the correct choice.
7. Use the left panel to add more questions and leaderboard slides.

Creating a Competition with AI

Poll Everywhere's Create with AI tool can generate a full Competition, including questions, answer choices, and correct answer markers, from a single prompt. This is the fastest way to build a quiz from scratch.

To create a Competition using AI:

1. From the Home page, click inside the AI prompt box (the text field below the poll type selector).
2. Type a prompt describing your quiz. For example:
   • "Create a 5-question competition about the water cycle for university students"
   • "Generate a 10-question product knowledge quiz for a sales team"
3. Press Enter or click Create with AI.
4. Poll Everywhere generates a Competition with all questions, choices, and correct answers pre-populated.
5. Review each question in the editor, click any field to edit the question text, choices, or correct answer marker.
6. Add, remove, or reorder questions and leaderboard slides using the left panel.
7. left panel.

Helpful tip: You can also use the AI improvement panel (✨ icon in the right rail) on individual questions after creation, to make questions easier or harder, fix spelling and grammar, simplify language, or add more choices.

All Competition questions can use a multiple-choice format. Each question must have at least one answer marked as correct for points to be awarded. 

Leaderboard

A Current Leaderboard slide is automatically inserted between questions. It shows:

• Participant display names
• Points accumulated so far
• Rank position

Note: The leaderboard updates after each question is completed. You can add or remove Leaderboard slides from the left panel. Points are awarded to participants who select the correct answer. Scoring is automatic, no manual grading required. When Lock is pressed on a question or the timer set enlapse, the question stops accepting responses and the correct answer is revealed to participants (if Show Correctness is enabled).

Participant experience

Participants join via the join code or QR code. For each question, they:

1. See the question and answer choices
2. Select their answer
3. See whether they were correct on the presenter screen (if Show Correctness is on)
4. See the live leaderboard between questions, showing their current rank and score

Presenting

1. Click Present to go live
2. Navigate between questions using the ← → arrows at the bottom
3. Lock each question when time is up to stop responses and reveal results
4. Advance to the Leaderboard slide to show rankings
5. Continue through all questions and end with a final leaderboard
6. Click Exit (bottom left) to return to the editor

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