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Overview
Since Poll Everywhere will be discontinued by June 30, 2025, this instruction will guide you on how to migrate Poll Everywhere to MS Forms.
Migrating from Poll Everywhere to Microsoft Forms is a manual process, as there’s no migration tool to automatically move your polls and surveys. The best approach is to rebuild your activities in Microsoft Forms.
Microsoft Forms does have a Quick Import feature, which allows you import questions from a Word or PDF document, but you need to format your file in a certain way for it to work well. Even with this feature, some manual adjustments will likely be needed.
Recorded Workshop: Migrating Poll Everywhere to MS Forms and Teams
Migrate Surveys/Activities from Poll Everywhere and MS Forms
Access Your Poll Everywhere Poll Activities
Login Poll Everywhere using your SPU credentials. https://www.polleverywhere.com/
Click "Go to activities" on the Home page.
Click on the activity you would like to migrate to MS Forms.
You can see the questions included in the activity on the left side.
You can view the details of each question by clicking the "edit" button.
Keep this window open so you can copy and paste content into Microsoft Forms easily. In a new browser tab, open Microsoft Forms to start recreating your polls.
Access Microsoft Forms to Rebuild Your Poll Activities
Login MS Form using SPU credentials. https://forms.office.com/
Click "New Forms".
Enter a title and choose an appropriate format of the first question.
Go back to your Poll Everywhere and copy and paste the question and options into MS Forms.
Mark the question as required.
Click "Add a New Question" to repeat the steps above.
After done, click "Present" to collect responses.
You will see a similar display to Poll Everywhere. You can toggle the "Treemap" or "Bar" button at the bottom to change the display of the responses.
An Alternative Method: Quick Import (Requires Proper Formatting)
As an alternative method, you can copy all questions from a single Poll Everywhere activity into a Word document, format them properly, and then import them into Microsoft Forms.
Example of the correct Word document format for Quick Import into Microsoft Forms:
Formatting Guidance:
Arrange content vertically in-line with the title and the section title.
Ensure questions and answer options are clearly separated.
Remove figures or complex equations.
Refer to the Import guidance below (also available by selecting See import guidance on the import page of MS Forms).
Go to MS Forms and click "Quick import".
Select the word document you created.
Choose Form.
Click "Start Review" to review the Form you just imported.
Modify the Form as needed.
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