Timer for the last 30 seconds of polls
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Gabriel Ferreira Dias
Someones the professors say that they are going to close the poll but it is unclear if it will be in 10 or 40 seconds. Sometimes we haven't finished our answer and wonder if we will be able to finish our sentence or if we just have to stop and find a way to close the idea immediately. Also, sometimes professors simply end the poll without warning, and responses are submitted incomplete. Let the professor have a button to click when they want only 30 more seconds and show this timer to help the students finalize their submission.
Cody Morrow
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A general purpose classroom timer can now be started any time by instructors, allowing all participants to see the countdown.
Philip Sterne
Something that would be useful (and hopefully trivial to implement) would be to add a timer that starts counting
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as soon as the poll starts. The prof can say "I'm giving this poll 5 minutes", or if the class is running out of time can say "We're short on time, I'm giving 3 minutes". Complete flexibility, and can be different for different polls, (if you're in a 2 up configuration, you can drag in a second poll at a later time, and have the different times visible, one in each block).Tomer Perry
I would love if we had a timer that we could create and would be displayed to everyone. not just the last 30 seconds, not just for polls.
Jonathan Powers
Tomer Perry: Strongly agree. Not only more convenient, but also, as Nazar explains, more fair to the students. Not having standard timing is a grading equity issue.
Ben Chun
Merged in a post:
Poll timer and fixed amount of time for the polls.
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Nazar Yaremko
It would be very useful if we had a fixed time for each poll (for example 5 minutes for the prep assessment poll and 7-8 minutes for reflection poll) in the courses. As the courses and professors change it is very annoying how some profs five 10 minutes for a poll and some of them barely give 3 minutes. Everyone has to be in the same conditions and receive equal amount of time for polls especially when the courses are the same and the teachers aren't.
Ben Chun
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Roiman N
I don't know who you are, Gabriel, but I like you. (so many posts :O ) – just check around, I think there are old requests that are duplicates :)