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Tuesday, April 16, 2019

Discover how to engage your students with Poll Everywhere

Looking for ways to assess students’ understanding, survey opinions on controversial topics, or engage students during a lecture? Student response systems (SRS) can help you do just that! With SRS you can create planned or spontaneous surveys and immediately visualize student responses. SRS can also be used to enhance or guide discussions, track... More

Tuesday, December 18, 2018

Poll Everywhere – Student Response Systems and Real-Time Testing

Looking for ways to assess students’ understanding, survey opinions on controversial topics or engage students during a lecture? Student response systems (SRS) can help you do just that! With SRS you can create planned or spontaneous surveys and immediately visualize student responses. SRS can also be used to enhance or guide discussions, track... More

Monday, December 3, 2018

Blog: Connecting instructors through the Poll Everywhere Community of Practice

By Kim Loenhart, Educational Technology Development Coordinator, EDC On November 07, 2018, the Educational Development Centre held its first Poll Everywhere Community of Practice (PECP) lunch. Seven experienced professors came together to share lunch and ideas about using Poll Everywhere in the classroom. The participants spanned teaching... More

Tuesday, September 11, 2018

Poll Everywhere – Student Response Systems and Real-Time Testing

Looking for ways to assess students’ understanding, survey opinions on controversial topics, or engage students during a lecture? Student response systems (SRS) can help you do just that! With SRS you can create planned or spontaneous surveys and immediately visualize student responses. SRS can also be used to enhance or guide discussions, track... More

Friday, April 27, 2018

Discover the benefits of Poll Everywhere

Looking for ways to assess students’ understanding, survey opinions on controversial topics, or engage students during a lecture? Student response systems (SRS) can help you do just that! With SRS you can create planned or spontaneous surveys and immediately visualize student responses. SRS can also be used to enhance or guide discussions, track... More

Tuesday, February 6, 2018

Poll Everywhere – Student Response Systems and Real-Time Testing

Looking for ways to assess students’ understanding, survey opinions on controversial topics, or engage students during a lecture? Student response systems (SRS) can help you do just that! The EDC centrally supports the use of Poll Everywhere, a web-based polling tool that allows students to use laptops, tablets or cell phones to participate in... More

Thursday, September 28, 2017

Poll Everywhere in the Classroom

Join the EDC and Andrew Robinson, a contract instructor in the Department of Physics, as he discusses his experiences using student response systems over the past decade to test student comprehension of topics, encourage peer-interaction, and check teaching effectiveness. You’ll also have the chance to experience Poll Everywhere (a web-based... More

Thursday, September 14, 2017

Poll Everywhere – Student Response Systems and Real-Time Testing

Looking for ways to assess students’ understanding, survey opinions on controversial topics, or engage students during a lecture? Student response systems (SRS) can help you do just that! SRS allow you to create planned or spontaneous surveys and immediately visualize student responses. They can also be used to enhance or guide discussions,... More

Thursday, July 27, 2017

Poll Everywhere – Student Response Systems and Real-Time Testing

Looking for ways to assess students’ understanding, survey opinions on controversial topics, or engage students during a lecture? Student response systems allow you to create planned or spontaneous surveys and immediately visualize student responses. They can also be used to enhance or guide discussions, track participation, facilitate live... More

Monday, June 5, 2017

Poll Everywhere: The fidget spinner for higher ed?

By Kim Loenhart, Educational Technology Support, EDC Fidget spinners are all over the news these days as kids adopt this new tool to deal with sensory and attention needs. Keeping the fingers busy has been promoted as a way to refocus students, provide sensory input and stimulate bored minds. While mostly in the realm... More

Thursday, June 1, 2017

Poll Everywhere: Student Response Systems and Real-Time Testing

Looking for ways to assess students’ understanding, survey opinions on controversial topics, or engage students during a lecture? Student response systems can help you do just that! Join us on June 7 from 1-2:30 p.m. and find out how. We centrally supports the use of Poll Everywhere, a web-based polling tool. Come and explore... More

Thursday, February 16, 2017

Explore classroom student response systems at our upcoming workshop

Looking for ways to assess students’ understanding, survey opinions on controversial topics, or engage students during a lecture? Student response systems allow you to create planned or spontaneous surveys and immediately visualize student responses. They can also be used to enhance or guide discussions, track participation, facilitate live... More

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