Hosting a Vevox Session
Sign in to Vevox
Go to Vevox dashboard .
Click Login with SSO.
Creating a Vevox session
Follow the instructions laid out at https://help.vevox.com/hc/en-us/articles/360001038317-Create-my-first-session. Be advised of the following defaults.
By default, the results of a poll are shown immediately after the poll closes. This can be changed in the Features settings.
By default, participants will be identified and will be required to use SSO (single sign-on, i.e., their UW credentials). This can be changed to Anonymous in the Identification settings.
Linking a Vevox session to LEARN
If you are using Vevox for the assessment of students, you can create a link from your LEARN course to the Vevox Session that will transfer the grade received by each student back to LEARN automatically. See Linking a Vevox Session to a LEARN Course for more information.
Adding Polls to a session
Please see Vevox’s documentation on https://help.vevox.com/hc/en-us/categories/360001607017-Polling.
Inviting Participants to a session
Several options for https://help.vevox.com/hc/en-us/articles/360001047758-Invite-participants-to-my-session are available. However, if you have created a link from LEARN to a Vevox session, that session will only be accessible through the created link.
Starting a Vevox session
Follow the instructions laid out at https://help.vevox.com/hc/en-us/articles/360001038477-Start-my-session .
If you wish to run Vevox through Powerpoint, please see https://help.vevox.com/hc/en-us/categories/360001607057-PowerPoint-Add-in.
If you wish to run Vevox through Microsoft Teams, please see https://help.vevox.com/hc/en-us/articles/360009153397-Using-Vevox-with-Microsoft-Teams.
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