The process of teaching and learning has been of great significance since ancient times. Especially over the last few months, teachers and students have experienced an all-new kind of study environment due to the global pandemic. They have had to come to the virtual world all of a sudden. Thus in this world of virtual teaching and learning, the importance of communication is prime. 

The topic of communication brings us to discuss one of the most crucial parts of it-feedback. It helps both teachers and students in enhancing the whole process. It helps teachers analyse their performance and teaching methods from the lens of the students. Whereas for the students it is helpful in the way that an enhanced teaching method will ultimately help them understand the topic better. 

Hence, we have curated this list of polling apps that can help the teachers in keeping their students engaged while finding innovative methods of grasping the topics. 

Google Forms

Google Forms, definitely had to be the first on our list. It allows you to create polls using different types of forms. It also allows you to add elements of multimedia into your forms like images and videos. You can collaborate with multiple students on Google Forms to make your class more engaging while asking them questions on its poll. It offers a neat response that is arranged in a good manner. It offers real-time info charts that make it easy to study the findings.  

Kahoot

This app allows you to curate quizzes and surveys that consist of a wide variety of multimedia elements such as videos, pictures, and text. Each of the quizzes can be accessed by the students over various devices. The app also gives the feature of creating time-controlled quizzes. This allows the students to answer within a limited period. 

QiT

The QiT app gives you a platform that helps you collect your students' opinions confidentially. It allows you to create customised polls with many multimedia features. This makes the app very easy and interesting to use. You can create instant polls and share them online with the students. The app is distinguished by the feature of anonymous posting of questions. 

Quiaalize

This is an interesting app that allows teachers to create classroom exams or homework. It is a live polling app as it allows the teachers to see the results live and analyse the students' strengths and weaknesses. After logging in on the app, you can go to ‘Your Quizzes’ tab and click on ‘Create a new quiz’. To move further, follow all the instructions guided to you. Add all your relevant data for the quiz. Then click on ‘Save’ to save your quiz. To circulate the quiz among your students, click on the ‘Set Quiz’ button and enter the name of your class. After this, a unique code will be generated that you can share with your students. The students can visit www.quizal.me and after adding the code can access the quiz. 

Socrative

This has to be your go-to app for fun and engaging classroom engagement. It allows you to quickly assess the students with the aid of activities or on-the-fly questions. The teachers can also use the auto-populated results to find out the best approach for teaching. 

GoSoap Box

This one is a powerful, innovative, and spontaneous polling app that allows the teachers to effectively use it in their teaching-learning process. With the use of such live polling apps, teachers can create an environment of effective classroom learning. This has enhanced opportunities like never before. 

Survey Monkey

This one allows you to curate online polls swiftly and efficiently. Although this is very popular amongst businesses, it can be effectively used in the school curriculum. You just need to draft your poll questions, email, or post the desired link on your poll online. In the very next step, you can get the results in a comprehensive manner. These kinds of polling apps
help establish a good connection between the two parties. 

Survey Planet

Survey Planet is an effective and innovative polling app that gives you a set of free tools to create your survey and share it online with your students. You can then easily review the survey results on the app. It allows you to enjoy making custom surveys with responsive layouts, images, pre-written questions, different types of questions, etc. The app also offers you to create polls in multiple languages. 

Conclusion

After reading about the diversity of these apps, you can now begin an exciting classroom session by engaging your students in these polls. Either create them in advance or make it instantly while taking the class. Within a few clicks, you can increase the engagement to many folds. Get started with the most useful, innovative, and engaging apps to curate polls that enhance the teaching-learning process.