Staff guide: Features, guides, access and training for Vevox live polling.

Why use Vevox?

Vevox enhances online, hybrid, and face-to-face sessions with options for live polling, quizzes, surveys, and Q&A. 

Follow these links for a summary of key features:

• Poll Maker for Live Polling.
• Make an interactive quiz.
• Simple surveys.
• Live audience Q&A Tool.
• Live word clouds.

More information is available from the Vevox website.

Access Vevox

Instructor/ Session host

• Follow the link to Vevox at southampton.vevox.com and select Login with SSO.
• Sign in with your University login details to set up your Vevox account.

More information on creating and sharing sessions can be found on the Vevox help site.

NHS user

If you have registered for federated access with your NHS account, or a University external account, you will be able to access Vevox.

Student

Students do not need to create an account to use Vevox.

To join a session, students :

• Open the Vevox web client straight from a browser at vevox.app on a phone, tablet or laptop. (It can be an iPhone or Android.)
•  Enter the 9-digit Session ID – the host or event organizer will supply this.  
•  Press Join. 

See the Vevox student guide: Join a session

Identifying students

The session host has a range of options to make polls anonymous, share names and identify participants.

• When answering polls, participants can either be anonymous or identified.
• When answering Q&A the host can select the following options:
  • Anonymous – Participant will stay anonymous at all times. This is applicable for all polling, all Q&A feedback and all data reporting.
  • Show names – Participant names will appear alongside any questions they post to the Q&A message board.
  • Hide names – Participant names will be hidden from the Q&A board, but the identity of participants will still be visible in the session data report.
  • Participant choice – Participants can choose if they would like their names to appear alongside any questions/comments they post to the Q&A board. Alternatively, participants can choose to stay anonymous. (The participant identity will stay anonymous in the session data report as well as on the Q&A board).
  • Single Sign-on authentication – for additional security, students will be logged in with their University user name, first name and last name. You still have the option to keep names hidden from other students, but you can identify individual participation if needed.

See the Vevox guide to Identifying participants.

Vevox feature guides

Follow these links to Vevox help guides.

Live Polling

Set up is quick, easy and you can see the results in real-time as your audience vote on any web-enabled device. Display options include Multiple choice, Wordcloud, text, star rating, XY plot, and pin on an image.

Quizzes

The Vevox live quizzing feature can help you to identify knowledge gaps, increase participation and attention levels and give instant feedback.

Q&A

Run a Q&A throughout your session and focus your efforts on the most popular crowdsourced questions and give everyone a truly equal voice.

Surveys

Students can answer survey questions in their own time, which makes them a great option for mid-module and end-of-module evaluation surveys.

This 5-minute video explains how to create a mid-module survey and includes suggestions for the questions you might ask and some practical advice about running the survey and feeding back the results. Learn more about the benefits of mid-module evaluation.

Using Vevox in Common Learning Spaces

You can extend your PC’s display in CLS rooms so that you can view the Vevox dashboard on your main screen while your PowerPoint slides, or the Vevox Projector, are shown to your students on the extended screen. See the guide: Extending your PC display for details

Vevox Integrations

PowerPoint add-in

You can embed Vevox polls within your PowerPoint presentation.

Vevox has a new Office 365 add-in that will replace the original PowerPoint add-in. See this guide for the benefits of the new add-in and how to install it and start using it to deliver polls via PowerPoint.

Teams

Vevox is an excellent tool for improving engagement in online sessions. you can add the Vevox integration to a Teams meeting and also run polls embedded in PowerPoint. See our guide to using Vevox with Teams for more information.

Panopto

It’s also possible to use Vevox as part of a Panopto webcast – bear in mind you will need to allow for a short (30s) delay in what students see on screen.

Training and support

Vevox help site

• Visit the helpsite for links to all guides, FAQs, tips, and technical support.

Webinar Series

• Vevox Webinar series – includes a weekly Zero to hero in a 15-minute session and advanced skills in the monthly Pedagogy Vevox Education Series.

Blogs

See regular blogs for tips and inspiration

• The top 50 word cloud questions for brainstorming & icebreakers.
• 10 interactive quiz styles to engage students.
• 35 of the best icebreaker polling questions.

Technical support

If you need technical help, please contact Vevox support directly or the University ServiceLine –  make sure Vevox is in the short description.

Personal and department advice and training

If you’d like to discuss the educational use of Vevox, please contact Digital Learning.

Vevox Vevox can run bespoke training sessions online or in person. You can contact Vevox support directly to arrange this or contact Digital Learning.