Workshopy vs Poll Everywhere
Poll Everywhere is an audience-response system: you embed live questions into your existing presentation and the room answers from their devices. Workshopy is not asking the room questions — it is giving each participant the workshop and watching how far each of them has got. If your lecture needs a pulse check, Poll Everywhere is purpose-built for it. If your session is a lab, a practical or a hands-on workshop, per-step progress is the signal you actually need, and that is what Workshopy provides.
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Two different products
Poll Everywhere
Live questions embedded into a presentation. The presenter asks, the room answers, the aggregate appears on screen.
Workshopy
A live workshop each participant works through. The host watches per-person step progress and status, and intervenes where it is needed.
Side by side
| Workshopy | Poll Everywhere | |
|---|---|---|
| Core signal | Who is on which step, and who is stuck | How the room answered the question you just asked |
| Content ownership | Your Markdown file, exportable at any time | Your slides; Poll Everywhere holds the questions |
| Self-paced work | First-class — participants move independently, host can force-sync when needed | Mostly presenter-led; response links let people answer polls at their own pace |
| Question types | Broadcasts (acknowledge / single / multi choice) and graded quiz steps | Broad: multiple choice, word cloud, Q&A, clickable images, competitions |
| Integrations | Runs in the browser alongside whatever you already use | A PowerPoint add-in; Keynote and Google Slides through its desktop app |
| Participant identity | Named participants by default (display name), so progress is attributable | Random screen names by default, anonymity per question, or named registered participants |
| Help requests | Need help with a note, a help queue taken oldest first, and private messages | Not a feature |
| Post-session artefact | A report per class (steps, students, polls and quizzes; CSV or Markdown export) and a page students keep with the lesson | Response reports and gradebook exports |
Compiled from each product’s public documentation. Deliberately no price comparison — published prices change without notice and a stale number here would be worse than none. Check both pricing pages.
Which one to use
Choose Workshopy when
- Participants are doing the work, not watching you do it.
- You need attributable, per-person progress rather than anonymous aggregate responses.
- Your material is already a document and you want it to stay one.
- You want a report per cohort showing where people actually got stuck.
Choose Poll Everywhere when
- You lecture from slides and want responses embedded directly in them.
- Anonymity matters — you want honest answers more than attributable ones.
- You present from PowerPoint, Keynote or Google Slides and want the questions inside your deck.
- You need a large library of question types for a lecture-hall setting.
Frequently asked questions
Does Workshopy support anonymous responses?
Participants choose a display name when they join, so responses are attributable — that is deliberate, because knowing WHO is stuck is the point of the dashboard. There is no anonymous-response mode today. If anonymity is central to your session, an audience-response tool is the better fit.
Can Workshopy grade quizzes?
Yes. A step tagged `#[quiz]` becomes a graded quiz; questions are `##` headings and answers are task-list items with `- [x]` marking what is correct. Correct answers are redacted server-side before the step reaches a participant, and results are shown immediately or published by the host.
Do I need to install anything?
No, on either side. The host works in the browser and participants join with a 6-character code on whatever device they have. There is no add-in, no app and no account for participants.
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