Poll Everywhere offers seven basic prompt types for presenters to share with their audience:
- Multiple Choice (participants choose from multiple options for the poll)
- Word Cloud (participants submit text responses and the responses are organized into a word cloud with repeated responses getting bigger)
- Q&A (participants can submit open-ended responses and others can up or downvote other user's submissions)
- Clickable Image (participants can drop pins on an image to signify their answer to the prompt)
- Survey (participants can respond to a pre-built series of questions and submit according to their own pace)
- Open-Ended (participants can submit longer responses to the prompt
- Competition (Participants can compete with other users in this time-sensitive prompt)
PollEverywhere also offers respondents three options for submitting their responses:
- SMS text message submissions
- Web site submissions
- Poll Everywhere mobile app submissions
