New for Spring 2025, Wooclap has been selected as the University of Alberta's centrally supported student response system. Wooclap is an online polling application that can be used through Canvas to interact with learners during and after lectures. The service offers numerous workflows for creating engaging questions that can be delivered to students in live lectures and afterwards. 

Adding Wooclap to a course

WooClap needs to be linked into a Canvas course using an assignment:

1. First set the Submission type type to external tool:

2. Click Find:

3. Click Wooclap to add the tool url and click Select to set up the integration. Even though the Wooclap display is responsive, when working as an instructor in Wooclap (creating polls, adding/editing questions, etc), it can be useful to have more screen real estate to operate so checking Open in a new tab is recommended; this is not as important for student poll delivery so that setting can be switched as necessary.

4. Once the Assignment is saved, clicking the tool will show a button to Open [assignment name] in new window and Clicking there will open the Wooclap interface with a new poll matching your assignment title and you can begin creating questions: 

Note it is not possible to create a Canvas assignment that links to an existing event in Wooclap - if users have already created questions, these can be easily imported to an event by clicking Import questions then selecting any or all questions from other events.

Creating Questions and Events

Once you are working directly in Wooclap and you have accessed an Event, clicking New question you can select from a wide variety of question types - hovering over each question type will provide additional details and usage guidelines:

For additional information on creating and delivering events, Wooclap provides built-in help through the question mark icon in the bottom right:

For users who want to begin with a more formal guided overview, please see Wooclap Essentials for Presenters as well as this guide for beginners.

Using Wooclap Outside Canvas

Note: Students must access events through Canvas to ensure their answers are passed back to the gradebook. 

Direct access to Wooclap is available at https://app.wooclap.com/auth/login by clicking on Continue with Google and using a UofA gmail account (which identifies a user account as part of the Wooclap institution license.) Upon first access, users will need to select the correct google account to pass through to Wooclap:

This email must be in the format ccid@ualberta.ca and not an aliased email (e.g., first.lastname@ualberta.ca) otherwise users may not be able to also access via Canvas and access their created content. Using the email in the correct format should allow instructors to access using either mechanism using the same account.