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. 

As a starting point, instructors can watch this screen recording of CTL's Introductory Wooclap webinar delivered June 11. 2025.

New for Summer 2025, we have deployed a new version of the Wooclap Canvas integration that allows users to select from existing events/questions when adding assignment.

Adding Wooclap to a course

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

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

2. Click Find:

3. Click Wooclap to open the resource link modal:

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 changed as necessary.

4. On the resource link modal screen, select either Create from scratch or Duplicate an existing event then click Continue:

5. Configure the other assignment settings and click Save. Once added, clicking the tool link will show a button to launch the tool.

Once the tool loads, you will land on the new Wooclap event -- either blank or containing existing questions -- where you can add or edit questions and configure your event:

If you select Duplicate and existing event, you will see a dialog that allows you to search through all your existing Wooclap events and select one to copy all of the existing questions from. This will leave your existing event unchanged:

Once an event is selected, scroll to the bottom and click Confirm choice.

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.

Instructors can also register for training webinars provided by the vendor.

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 then logging into and selecting their UofA Gmail account:

Upon first access, users will need to Choose the correct Google account to pass through to Wooclap:

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

Once instructors create events in Wooclap, they can click the Display button at the top of live meetings to have learners join the poll (whether authenticating or not). They can also get a direct participation link to share in advance for their event at the bottom left of that screen: