The Prince­ton Word­Press envi­ron­ment has the Pin­nion plu­gin enabled upon request per site. Each site requires a Pin­nion account, which in the case of course blogs, will be set up by a blog admin­is­tra­tor. Only those with administrator-level blog access can cre­ated a Pin­nion poll.

The login and pass­word for the Pin­nion site for your course should be already entered into the Pin­nion set­tings for your par­tic­u­lar blog.

If Pin­nion is acti­vated for your blog, you will see the Pin­nion tool in your WYSIWYG text editor:

Upon select­ing the Pin­nion icon, you will get a drop-down list of com­pleted polls and sur­veys. You can select from this list.

To build a new Pin­ion poll, select the Pin­nion option from the Dash­board menu, and go to Editor.

Select the option to make a “New Pinion.”

Fol­low the steps in the edi­tor to describe your poll, to write ques­tions, and to “Send.” your poll. The last step will make your poll active. You can set dates to make your poll active and to expire your poll.

Hint: if you want to give user feed­back regard­ing cor­rect answers, use the “Set­ting” tab in the Que­si­ton edi­tor to set the quiz type to “Trivia.” You will then be able to indi­cate which is the cor­rect answer.

 

 

 

 

Remem­ber to “Send” your poll to pub­lish it, and set the Dis­tri­b­u­tion Set­tings so that your poll lasts through the end of the grad­ing period for your course.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

To insert the poll in a page (or post) use the text edit­ing tool­bar, and the Pin­nion but­ton described above. You’ll have to select your poll from a list of oth­ers, so name it carefully.