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Protected: Mock exam for Spanish combines various learning technologies in the LRC

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Clicker-like exercises: A comparison what the LRC has to offer

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PollEverywhere.com
Sanako Study 1200
1. Live Feedback
2. Voting
3. Exam (not currently installed)
NetOp School: TBA

Categories: audience-is-teachers, classroom-management-system, e-learning, Student-response-systems-AKA-clickers Tags: sanako-study-1200

Face-to-face-teaching exam using Sanako Study 1200

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Sanako Exam is an add-on at additional cost and not currently available in our setup.
1. Sanako Exam teacher-created content is stored locally, file management beyond that is up to the user. This makes such polls less portable, but potentially sharing within a department might be easier.
2. Student Results can be identified by student, and saved.
View here a screencast demo of how a Sanako Exam can be
1. authored and
2. deployed.

Categories: audience-is-teachers, classroom-management-system, documentation, e-learning, Institution-is-Aston-University, Presenter-Computer, proposals, Screencasts, Student-Computers, Study-program-is-any Tags: Exam-Module, sanako-study-1200

Live Feedback and Voting for clicker-like activities in Sanako Study 1200

2012/02/29 plagwitz Leave a comment

(Images are from the Sanako documentation, screencasts my own) .
Sanako Study 1200 comes with Live Feedback.
1. This is what it looks like:
2. The teacher enables students to give Live Feedback from their student player interface by pressing the Live Feedback button.
3. Live Feedback is designed for students sending basic information whether they are following or confused or neutral.
  1. These up to 3 answer options could possibly be repurposed, and the question displayed by separate means. Polls can only be anonymous, results cannot be saved.
  2. More importantly, the results are not anonymous, but appear on the student icons in the classroom layout so that the teacher can attend to those students that are confused or otherwise struggling.
Sanako Study 1200 also comes with Voting.
1. A brief demo screencast of Voting is here:
2. The teacher enables students to give Voting from their student player interface by pressing the Voting button, entering questions, answer options, optionally marking one (and only one) answer as the right answer and clicking “send’ to the students,
3. on whose computer a window with will pop up with question and answer option
4. while the feedback voting results window pops up on the teacher from where the teacher can “send the correct answer” to the students once everybody has voted, and “create new” polls.
5. Results can be viewed by the teacher and displayed to the class, but cannot be stored (there is no storing mechanism. One could however save a screenshot of the teacher voting result window).
6. The Voting is also “live” insofar as no content can be archived and reloaded. Maybe this Live Voting can be both accelerated and extended through the use of a simple PowerPoint displayed on the classroom screen, by just using live Voting’s result aggregation features and forfeiting filling out/displaying the question and answer options within the live voting interface for the teacher/students.
Not free, but less limited: Sanako Exam.

Categories: audience-is-teachers, classroom-management-system, e-learning, Presenter-Computer, Student-Computers, Student-response-systems-AKA-clickers Tags: Exam-Module, Live-Feedback, Live-Voting, ms-powerpoint, sanako-study-1200, trpTeacher

How to restrict student in-class web browsing activity with Sanako Study 1200

2012/02/25 plagwitz Leave a comment

In the Group pane, from the Activity dropdown selector, choose web browsing.
if your students
1. do an open-ended web quest, choose radio button: open policy to be able to provide a list of non-allowable websites (e.g. YouTube.com may be useful for your students’ online research activity, but Facebook.com not)
2. take a well-defined and –confined assessment like an online quiz, choose radio button: strict policy to be able to provide the list of allowable websites
3. either way, put just the site address (e.g. http://www.dict.cc), without the protocol (NOT: http://www.dict.cc), or else…
the web browsing activity,
1. prevents any other browser from being opened by the student but IE
2. begins with opening for the student the table of contents page in IE, listing the allowable websites; whenever the students closes the IE, Sanako reopens it on the table of contents page .
3. each web activity of your student will be verified against your allow list:
Note that
1. there are some caveats, errors&glitches.
2. the Respondus Lockdown browser (see screencast at min 18:00) installed in the LRC also can also be used to prevent students from accessing non-web-based programs on the computer they are working on; but can not be restricted to a number of web pages, nor can students receive a Table of Contents of the web pages they are allowed to go to .