Audience response & polling
Student engagement in every lecture Immediate feedback for teachers and students - Personal response systems enable responsive teaching, peer learning and active learning in large-group teaching.
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Affordances
Polling tools enable students to respond to a set of questions during a lecture and make contributions, anonymously or not, even in large classes. Students can respond via their phone, tablet or laptop. Responses can be tracked live, and displayed to the class when ready or captured for later analysis.
- Gauge and strengthen understanding while identifying gaps in knowledge
- Address misconceptions and identify threshold concepts
- Promote an active learning environment and peer learning
- Encourage student engagement via anonymous participation
- Give and receive instant feedback from students
- Engage with large cohorts, offering responsive teaching
Vevox
Vevox is primarily a browser-based tool, through which we can pose questions in lectures, get real-time feedback and run surveys.
- Add slides to existing PowerPoint presentations (Windows, Poll question)
- Use Polling and Q&A question types to get overview of class understanding
- Keep track of responses live and give imediate feedback
- Control when, or if, responses are displayed to class (?)
- Browser based participation means more ways for students to participate
Accessibility statement for Vevox
EchoVideo
EchoVideo now has two additional media types to accompany the video, audio, and presentation types. Polls and Interactive Media.
- Polls: Question/activity panels requesting viewer responses.
- Interactive Media: Combines polls with video/audio, requiring viewer responses to continue playback.