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Vevox

Vevox is an audience engagement tool primarily used to enhance online, hybrid, and face-to-face sessions

Overview

Vevox is a platform that allows the creation and deployment of interactive quizzes, real-time polling, anonymous Q&A, and live word clouds that enhance engagement and measure understanding in a course. To learn more, visit Why use Vevox? 

NDSU will be conducting a fall pilot of Vevox for the fall 2025 semester.  If you would like to participate in the pilot, please contact the IDC at instructional.design@ndsu.edu.

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Intended Audience

  • Faculty
  • Students
  • Staff

Using this solution

Availability

24/7/365 [*Standard outages]

Cost

University-funded: no charge.

Requirements

Must be a campus-supported product

Getting Started

How you get started depends on whether you're a host or a participant. Use the Learn More/How To’s section as your starting point.   

Best Practices

  • Share with your class the reasons behind using Vevox, such as checking knowledge levels, allowing questions to be asked anonymously, and getting feedback.
  • Communicate with your participants if the sessions are anonymous or user-identified. 
  • Have students complete a “low-stakes” Vevox task to learn and familiarize themselves with the tool.  
  • Give clear instructions and guidelines 

Learn More/How To's

Host

  • Getting Started – Vevox’s How To resource site.   
    • Creating sessions, inviting participants, reusing sessions, and much more!    

  • PowerPoint Add-In - Vevox’s resource site   
    • Installing the Add-in, creating Vevox sessions embedded in a slide, and much more!

Participant

  • Participant User Manual – Vevox's resource site   
    •  Joining a session, answering polls and questions, and much more!  

  • Participant Login Instructions: Depending on how your host has the Vevox session set up, you will either log in using Backboard or the NDSU Vevox login page.     
    • If you log in using the NDSU Vevox login page, select Login with SSO and use your Bison Login credentials.  Do not create your own Vevox account.  

      Image showing the Login page for vevox

FAQs

Use Cases

  • Attendance 
  • Student Participation 
  • Knowledge Checks 
  • Student Engagement 

Universal Design/Accessibility


Keywords:
vevox, ndsu, Overview, How, To, interactive quizzes, real-time polling 
Doc ID:
110520
Owned by:
Sharley K. in NDSU IT Knowledge Base
Created:
2021-04-26
Updated:
2025-07-30
Sites:
NDSU IT Knowledge Base