April 15, 2007
Creating polls using Polldaddy
Whilst spending a pleasant Sunday in the garden enjoying the weather and surfing the Internet, I came across this free poll tool.
It was easy enough to set up my poll and responses - click on the polldaddy logo above to access my poll.
Polldaddy instructions indicate that pasting in the html for my poll should allow the poll to appear in my blog. I tried this a few times, even using the flash embed, however I couldn’t get this to work successfully.
For the time being I am happy to create a link from my blog to the poll.
The Democracy plug-in for Wordpress is easier to use in a blog, but the Polldaddy poll creator would be easier to use in other contexts.
Polldaddy would be a useful tool for students to create their own polls. There are plenty of polling tools so it would be unlikely that schools or teachers would want to use Polldaddy.
It is straight forward to use and would allow students to easily create a poll. A link could be added to a discussion board or emailed to fellow students. Being web-based removes issues of software to create a poll for students.
Polldaddy has a custom style option using CSS. This would allow those with an understanding of cascading style sheets to create a poll with the same look as their website.
Many learning platforms provide online environments that offer the ability to create a poll. Polldaddy is comparable in terms of outcomes and is as easy as the simplest to create a poll.
Filed by Paul at 1:05 pm under collaborative, web tools
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