Once you install the software and receive the demo license via email, you should be ready to go. I am available to walk you through how it works, or if you prefer, you can sign up for one of our web base training presentations at the following link (http://www.turningtechnologies.com/audienceresponsecommunity/onlinetraining.cfm)

I’m interested in hearing your thoughts after you’ve had the chance to use it. Would you mind emailing me those at tcraig@turningtechnologies.com?

Hopefully this information is helpful. Thanks!

I am the K-12 sales manager for Turning Technologies and would be more than happy to discuss with you in further detail your goals and objectives and how our tools might meet your specific needs. If you would like to schedule a time to talk email me at tcraig@turningtechnologies.com

Here are the steps required to use Moodle for student response polling:

1. Log in to Moodle
2. Log into your course main page.
3. Turn editing on.
4. Add an activity by choosing, “Choice.”
5. Create and type a choice name such as “Question 1.”
6. Type the question in the large, white box.
7. Type the answer choices in the smaller white boxes.
8. Make sure that “Publish results” is set to, “Do not publish results to students.”
9. Save changes.

Repeat steps 2-9 for each question/poll you would like to create. Once all of the questions are created, you have the ability to hide each of them by clicking the eye next to each question on the main page of your course.

10. Have the class log into Moodle and your course main page.
11. Un-hide question 1 and have the students reload the browser page. They will now see question 1. Have them answer the question.
12. Once all of the students have completed the question, click the “edit” symbol next to the question (it looks like a hand holding a pencil).
13. Set “Publish results” to, “Show results to a student after they answer” and save changes.
14. Go back to your course main page and change your role to student.
15. Click on the question and tell the students the correct answer. Enter the correct answer and view the results of the poll.
16. Un-hide question 2 and have the students go back to course main page. They may have to reload the main course page to see the next question. Repeat steps 12-15.

Here are the steps required to view how each specific student answered the poll.

1. Switch your role back to teacher.
2. Click on a question that you wish to view the results of.
3. If you had 20 students take your poll, click the link for “View 20 responses.”

Chris

@Tom one thing that Google Spreadsheets misses is the more ad hoc type of feedback – a full questionnaire needs to be created and responded to, rather than a simple “what do you think about what I’m saying now…” kind of thing. Not sure how to better describe what I’m meaning – the teacher/prof/instructor needs to be able to ask questions on the fly, without everyone having to track down the new survey and respond. Ideally, some kind of ajax website that would allow questions to be pushed to the student for response, and then have that response pushed back to the server for display on the big screen…

When I was working in a k12 one to one I always wanted a website that people could join on the fly via password or url invite- essentially performing the basic clicker functionality. Didn’t seem like it’d take a skilled coder too much effort but then (total coding) ignorance is bliss.

It’s a solid survey tool, admin UI is not very friendly, but there is a lot of features; and stats.