Few Simple Tips to Use Mobile Student Response Systems

As a teacher or a trainer you are always committed towards making your classroom engaging and participative. From preparing interesting lessons, creative presentations, to adding a touch of humor to your delivery different strategies often help improve the productivity in the classroom or online training sessions. But is there more than you can do to make your classrooms interactive? Yes, mobile student response systems can go a long way in making classrooms productive and increasing the retention levels among students. Let us look at simple tips that will help you make your classes engaging and participative using mobile student response systems

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Recording Attendance – While recording attendance may be a mundane task before the start of each lecture or training session it surely remains an important one. So why waste time in recording attendance of your students the old way when amobile response system can do it for you. This is helpful when you are conducting a virtual class with students spread across different locations. Attendance would be recorded and compiled on a database for you to review it at a later stage.

Streamlining Presentation – By integrating polls and feedbacks at different phases of your presentation you would make the classroom more interesting. You can integrate polls at the end of a class or when you are discussing a complicated topic. This helps you in getting your students engaged and also clearing their doubts and queries before moving onto the new topics. Polls at different intervals streamline your presentation and allow the students to grasp difficult topics faster compared to linear presentations where you move from one topic to another without resolving the doubts and queries, they might have.

Assessing Knowledge Levels – Assessing knowledge levels of individual students and the group as a whole is important part of the training process. This allows you to tailor the content of the lectures to make the training sessions productive. Using a response system and by asking a variety of questions you will be able to easily assess the knowledge levels of individual students as well as your class before you start the training and also during different stages of the training. This will put you in a better position and also make sure you tailor your lectures to make it comprehensible for your students.

Increasing Participation – A mobile student response system will help you increase participation among your students or trainees. Traditional classrooms weren’t participative in a true sense as only a handful of students in most classrooms would interact while the vast majority would remain as passive listeners. With the use of technology you would be able to make the entire classroom take part in the debates and discussion. Since they can participate in the session by tapping on their smartphones or using hand-held clickers it is easier to increase participation. There would be no more passive listeners in your classroom.

Student-to-Student Interaction – Classrooms and training sessions aren’t merely meant to be an interaction between the teachers and the students. It is also meant to encourage healthy debates and discussions between peers. Using a mobile response system you would be able to create a conducive environment for your students to interact among themselves in the classroom.

Recording Results – During the course of a session you may have conducted multiple polls or even put your students through several tests. Compiling results for all the tests conducted and the polls in classrooms can be a herculean challenge. However using a mobile student response system you can leave aside all such worries. These systems record results and can create performance charts for individual students. This would allow you to review the performance of your students and share the results with them. These results can also be made available to your higher-ups for their review when required.

Gathering Feedback – How good are you as a teacher? How good was your last presentation? Are there areas where you need to work such as communication or the content? As a trainer you need to constantly learn and improve and for this you need to have a fair assessment of your performance during the course of training. While students may be hesitant to share the feedback with you in person or write that in a piece of paper these response systems would allow your students to share the feedback anonymously. This will help you improve your performance as well as the content you are presenting.

To sum up these are some of the basic uses of mobile student response systems in your classroom. Trainers and teachers are using these systems in more meaningful ways. Technology is often said to be an empowering tool and with the use of these response systems you will not only empower your students and trainees but also become a better teacher.

Summary – In this write-up we take a look simple ways in which you can use the mobile student response system and how they help in making classrooms and training sessions productive.