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

2012/03/01 plagwitz Leave a comment

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

Replace clickers with students’ phones using PollEverywhere.com

2012/02/29 plagwitz Leave a comment

PollEverywhere.com allows teachers to set up polls with answer options that students choose by sending a number code as text message.
Pro’s
1. Freemium.
2. Low- to No- university infrastructure requirements. Best-used in a non-computerized classroom or during startup time of students’ computers.
3. Content can be managed online.
Con’s
1. Freemium:
  1. “You get what you pay for”. “You may be the business”. What happens with your data
  2. Not free for students unless you consider a phone plan that comes with unlimited texts free. With increasing use of other messaging options over SMS, that may be not a given even if you deal mostly with an affluent student population.
2. Low- to No- university infrastructure requirements:
  1. you are relying on students providing the infrastructure. Are they better keeping their phones in service (on them, charged, turned on) than we are keeping our computer labs up and running?
  2. you are relying on mobile network operators, including the choices of operator that your students made.
3. Anonymous: Not useful for assessment purposes.
4. The number codes are long (6 digits, while 1 could be sufficient).
Competitors
1. The university has a clicker infrastructure which is partially outsourced to students (purchase and bring).
2. The LRC has a Classroom Management system infrastructure which supports clicker-like activities.
  1. Sanako Study 1200 comes with Live Feedback and Voting.
  2. NetOp School comes with an examination/polling feature also.