I am a writing professor and have used the open text poll this semester to obtain student responses to various prompts. Generally, my prompts are longer, including facts, analysis, etc., and do not fit within the open text poll itself. I have used a couple of workarounds: (1) printing the prompt and then displaying the poll slide; and (2) displaying the prompt on a slide and activating the poll on my phone (then going to the results on the next slide).
I was wondering if there was a simpler way to do this. Am I ignorant of a way to activate the poll within PowerPoint without having to display the poll slide (or clumsily use my phone)?