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.
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.
- What equipment do I need to use Vevox?
- How to check the Microsoft Office Version and update the Version for Vevox PowerPoint Polling Add-in
- How to download & install the Vevox PowerPoint Add-in
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!
- 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!
- 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.
- 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.
FAQs
Use Cases
- Attendance
- Student Participation
- Knowledge Checks
- Student Engagement
Universal Design/Accessibility
Related resources
- Polling
- Converting Turning Point slides in Vevox (1:19)
- YouTube Playlist - PowerPoint Polling
- YouTube Playlist - Live Polling and Quizzing Questions
- Vevox Education Series
- Education's ‘Easy Wins’ in getting started with Vevox
- 5 Ways educators use Vevox for virtual classes
- Vevox Getting Started – Faculty Training Recorded session