EchoPoll

Currently, when we export attendance back to LMS, it is accumulative with only one column displayed in our Grade Center. Would it be possible to export the attendance for that specific session like we are exporting scores for the polling sessions? This means that we are exporting attendance session by session as shown in the attached image.

As a user of both EchoVideo and EchoPoll, I would like to be able to use EchoVideo media as a resource in EchoPoll. At present I can use YouTube links but not EchoVideo public links.

Currently, UWA is doing a full integration of EchoPoll with our Anthology LMS. What we discovered is that when a user has dual accounts (staff and student), it affects the authorization process when they are logged in as students. A colleague - UAT specialist - outlined the steps for when this situation occurs: (1) In a normal context when the learner has only one account and wants to join the EchoPoll session using their mobile, they just need to authorize their ID the first time they log using their mobile. After that, they won’t need to authorize it again—just enter their user ID to log in. (2) In a context where the user is both a staff and student, e.g. a post-doc research fellow, they would have two accounts. When the user is registered into EchoPoll as a staff in one course 1 and as a student in another course 2, the student in this instance when participating in course 2 as a student with their mobile device, would be prompted to complete the authorization process again as an authorization email is sent to Outlook, and the student can only participate in the session after completing the authorization process. This happens repeatedly every time the user as a student is using her student account. This does not give the end user - the learner - a good seamless experience. The recommended solutions were for the user to: (a) log into LMS --> click on the EchoPoll link to be redirected to their course in EchoPoll and take the new session from there OR (b) log into the authentication process using a different browser as their staff account. The above works but again, the user has to remember this everytime they have to use EchoPoll as a student. Again, not a very good seamless experience. We are hoping that the EchoPoll Team will look into this moving forward for HE institutions who are considering doing a full integration of EchoPoll with their LMS.

It would be great to have the option of Online polling for Mac users that use the equivalent of Power Point for Mac - Keynote. Thanks!

It as reported that a colleague tried using the EchoPoll + app for a live session with learners/students and encountered some issues when the instructor has more than one display connected to their laptop. During the session where multiple displays are used, if the slide is a presentation or results slide, the display on the student’s device gets cut off, and the slide doesn’t fully appear on mobile devices. See error captured in attachment file. On the other hand, polling slides are displayed in full screen in mobile browser. We expect regardless of the number of displays used during a lesson, both presentation and results slides should display fully on all learner devices. However, when using a single display, both the presentation and results slides are displayed correctly on the learners' mobile devices. Instructors frequently use multiple displays to present materials in lecture halls. If slides are cut off on students' devices, it compromises understanding and engagement, especially since many learners access sessions via mobile devices. Ensuring proper display on all devices is essential for inclusivity and accessibility practices.

-Having access to faculty rosters and session data for both desktop and web applications -Being able to access data for reporting and troubleshooting -The ability to remove users no longer at our institution -The capability to create our own announcements/branding/message section for the desktop and web app (would lessen overall frustrations and greatly lend itself to a more satisfied user support experience on both our customer service ends)

The current integration between EchoPoll and the LMS/VLE is complicated and doesn't work the way we're expect. Using LTI 1.3 for EchoPoll roster sync and for pushing grades from EchoPoll back to the LMS/VLE gradebook would be ideal.

Poll responses only display in lower case when using the Echo Poll PowerPoint add-in, even when upper case is used. We have medics etc who need to use acronyms and who want to use PowerPoint for polling, so it would be helpful if the text responses could be case sensitive.

The colours on the projector and the ones on the learners’ devices don’t always show the same for WordCloud.

Evan Beasley Oct 16, 2024, 23:50 EDT The .csv file downloaded for attendance appears to be a .xlsx file with the tabs and formatting that entails. .csv files are simply values separated by commas and lines, but the attendance file is a lot more complicated than that with formatting - presumably so it’s easier on the eye. Most versions of excel, when opening it, determine that it is actually a .xlsx file, prompt the user to ask if they still want to open it, and open it in that file format, but this function is actually a feature that can be turned off. UWA’s desktop engineering team have it turned off for our enterprise managed devices as it’s a measurable security risk. it is not something we’re likely to be able to change on our end given it would expose UWA to more technological risk than we seem to have an appetite for. I imagine from here our only recourse is to ask for a feature request for a parallel download button for .xlsx or something like that…? I’m not sure why it downloads in .csv format anyway, given it’s clearly not a typical .csv file, but I imagine there’s a reason. I cannot even upload the file as an attachment in this instance :(