A polling widget is available in a virtual ethics-for-employees class. How should the instructor use that interactive medium?

Interactive media must serve the objective, not novelty. A polling widget in a virtual ethics-for-employees class should check understanding of the ethics points so the medium supports learning. Running novelty polls about favorite snacks to keep energy high regardless of the ethics objective wastes the tool. Disabling all polling because interactive media “cannot serve” public-sector ethics content invents a false ban. Polling only after class ends so results cannot affect instruction removes formative value. Exam caveat: CTT+ interactive media are justified by objective alignment and instructional use of results. Operational check: write poll items that probe ethics rules just taught, display anonymous results, reteach missed points immediately, and skip entertainment polls. Ethics polls diagnose misunderstanding in time to reteach; snack polls do not. Interactive media earn their place through objective service. CTT+ interactive-tool items reject novelty for its own sake. Publish poll items with the session plan and expected correct rationales for facilitators. Maintain that civic standard in the session file so auditors and future instructors can see how design integrity was preserved under real municipal constraints.