Instructor guide

Go to sign in with the email and password your administrator set up for you — there is no public sign-up. Students never sign in; only instructors do.

From your dashboard, give the class a title and create it. livepoll mints a 4-digit code that students use to join — it stays valid until you end the class.

Open a class and add as many questions as you like. Each one is either:

• Open-ended — students type free text.
• Multiple choice — you add the options, and pick whether students may choose one answer (radio buttons) or multiple answers (checkboxes).
• Whiteboard— a canvas the whole class draws on together. What you type as the question becomes the board's title; there are no options to fill in.

Any of the three can also carry a picture — a diagram, a photograph, a screenshot of some code. Press Add image, and add a short description for anyone using a screen reader. Large files are shrunk automatically before they are uploaded, so a photo straight off your phone is fine; it just needs to finish uploading before you save.

Reorder questions with the up/down arrows, and edit or delete any of them. Students see them one at a time, in this order.

Press Present to open the projection screen. It shows the join code and the current question. Use Start first question, then Next / Previous to move through them, or Close questionto return to the lobby. Every student's device follows you the moment you advance — only one question is ever live at a time.

Answers stream in live. Switch views with the tabs: an answers feed or a word cloud for open questions, and a bar or pie chart for multiple choice. To moderate, delete an answer to take it off the screen.

Use Download CSV on a class (from the dashboard or the class page) to save all of its questions and answers as a spreadsheet. Whiteboards are listed in the export, but their drawings are not included.

Put a whiteboard on screen and every student can draw on it at once, from their own phone. You can draw on it too — pick a colour and thickness, or use the text tool to type onto the board.

• Each student may erase only the strokes they drew. That rule is enforced by the database, not just the interface.
• Your eraser removes anybody's stroke, which is how you take something inappropriate off the projector without wiping the rest.
• Undosteps back through your own actions — it takes back a stroke you just drew, and brings back one you just erased. It cannot resurrect a student's drawing you erased, since strokes can only be written back by the person who made them.
• Clear all empties the whole board. Only you get this button; it asks you to confirm and, unlike the eraser, cannot be undone.

A stroke reaches the other screens the moment the pen lifts, so expect drawings to appear a line at a time rather than as a moving trail.

End class stops students joining or answering and releases the code. Later, Reopen brings the class back with a fresh code, keeping all its questions.

An admin account sees everyinstructor's classes on the dashboard, not just its own, and can open, edit, present, export or delete any of them.

Admins also get an Admin tools link in the dashboard header, leading to a danger zone that can permanently delete all data — every class, question and answer across all instructors. It asks you to type DELETE to confirm, cannot be undone, and leaves instructor accounts untouched. Regular instructors never see this page.