To send a digital exit ticket in Gmail, compose an email to your class list, open the Polls for Gmail add-on, pick a rating scale, yes/no, or open-ended question, and insert the poll. Students answer right from their inbox — no accounts, no apps, no new platform to roster — and responses tally themselves before you're back at your desk.
Step-by-step
Click Compose and address your class list or group — the same email you'd send anyway.
Click the Polls icon in the compose sidebar.
Rating 1–5 for confidence, yes/no for pace, open-ended for reflections. All included free.
One switch per poll. Anonymous for honesty; named when you need to know who to help.
Responses tally live in your dashboard — and you get an email when answers land.
Example
The Friday-afternoon classic: confidence check plus one open question.
Subject: 30-second exit ticket — today's lesson
Before you close your laptop — one click, totally anonymous:
See you Monday,
— Ms. Rivera
FAQ
No — the poll lives inside the email. Students click their answer right in the inbox: no sign-ins, no installs, nothing to roster. Works fine from school Chromebooks.
Yes — voter identification is a per-poll switch. Off for honest temperature checks; on when you want to know which students to follow up with. You can also hide the running tally from students so early answers don't influence later ones.
Free to install, with three starter polls and then one free poll every month — every question type included. Teachers running exit tickets weekly usually land on Standard at $75/year. Buying for a school? See how schools purchase — there's no tax paperwork.
The classic three: a 1–5 rating for confidence, yes/no for pace ("ready for Friday's quiz?"), and open-ended for reflections ("one thing you learned, one thing that's fuzzy"). All are one-click for students.
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Install free in two clicks. Three starter polls included — plans from $75/year.