Increase Interactivity
- You can use Mentimeter, Edpuzzle and Socrative to increase participation of your remote students in lessons and to overcome problems of online learning as to real-time assessment, and feedback.
With Mentimeter, you can get real-time responses from your online students by organizing live polls, quizzes, word clouds, and Q&As. You can check your audience’s expectations, learning needs,and their takeaways from the lesson; get feedback about the session using Mentimeter.Then, you can organize your lesson based on these responses. For many other ideas and templates, you can check here.
A questionnaire example from Mentimeter to check audience’s expectations about the lesson
Using Edpuzzle, you can add open ended or multiple choice questions at any point in your selected video. You can import videos from various resources including YouTube and Khan Academy. It can be assigned to students to complete before or after class, or can be used as a real-time formative assessment tool. Both Mentimeter and Edpuzzle provide a unique code for your activity so that your participants can join.
A multiple choice question is being added at a specific point in the video using Edpuzzle
With Socrative you can prepare various types of questions including multiple-choice, quiz, true-false, which you can implement during class time. You can check your students’ responses in real-time - before, during, or after the lesson. For a quick review of the tool, you can check here.
