by Laura Plotts | Feb 9, 2016 | Assessment, Engagement, Formative, Games, Immediate Feedback, Immediate Feedback
Socrative is a great tool for collecting immediate feedback from students via mobile apps or the internet on laptops or tablets. With Socrative teachers gather assessments via short answer, multiple choice and/or true or false questions. Socrative auto-grades multiple...
by Chris Meshanko | Jul 31, 2015 | Assessment, Audience Response, Engagement, Formative, Immediate Feedback, Immediate Feedback
Updwn is a free, online (Web 2.0) application that allows users to create and share simple group polls in real time. To get started, visit updwn.co. Next, type a question and click go. Enter your initials, add some options, and share the poll with your students or...
by ratcliffcr | Apr 13, 2015 | Assessment, Audience Response, Content Delivery, Engagement, Formative, Immediate Feedback, Immediate Feedback, Lecture, Mobile, Mobile, Mobile, Summative
What is Nearpod? Nearpod is an all-in-one presentation and polling application that allows teachers to deliver interactive lectures to students by pushing content to students’ mobile devices. Teachers control the presentation while students follow along. With...
by Kaitlin | Jan 11, 2015 | Assessment, Audience Response, Engagement, Formative, Immediate Feedback, Immediate Feedback, Lecture, Summative
Poll Everywhere is an excellent tool for polling or surveying students during class, and it’s a great alternative to clickers. It’s such a versatile and popular tool that we have a campus license at College of Charleston, which makes it free for instructors to use and...
by Mendi Benigni | Sep 13, 2014 | Assessment, Engagement, Formative, Games, Immediate Feedback, Immediate Feedback
Kahoot! is a classroom response system which creates an engaging learning space, through a game-based digital pedagogy. It is a collection of questions on specific topics. Created by teachers, students, business-people and social users, they are asked in real-time, to...
by Mendi Benigni | Sep 10, 2013 | Assessment, Audience Response, Engagement, Formative, Immediate Feedback, Immediate Feedback, Summative
Poll Everywhere is a free, online polling application (a.k.a. audience response system) that allows you to quickly gauge student understanding using their computers, tablets, or cell phones. The Poll Everywhere educational license purchased by CofC now allows faculty...
