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improving the student experience in learning, teaching and assessment
Getting Started with EVS
Outline of the session:
• Why use EVS• EVS Hardware & Software• A step by step approach on how to use EVS• Activities to take you through the process• Suggested uses of EVS• Regulations• Where to get help
Why use EVS?
Where shall we go
tonight?
No! – you can’t hear
me can you?
Yes!
I’ve just
had a new text
I don’t, but I’m
not saying
Now does everyone
understand?
Could this be your lecture?
Why we use EVS?
• Encourage active student participation• Engage with the whole class• Check and capture student knowledge– formative/summative
• Be a proactive teacher• Keep everyone awake!• Give quiet students a voice – including
international students• Add some fun
What does an Electronic Voting System do?
• Allows all students to respond to questions
• To give instant and timely feedback
Formative feedback
• Enables answers to be collated, saved and processed for:• The whole class• Subgroup of the class / teams• Individual students
Summative feedback
Terminology· TurningPoint (TP) is a type of Electronic Voting
System (EVS) or Personal Response System (PRS)
· Software – TurningPoint is free to download from the website-Knowledge Exchange.
· Handset (Response Card) has a unique Device ID on the back
· Receiver has a USB connection already in all classroom computers
· Presenter-must be Turningpoint compatible.
· Interactive slide – a slide that takes voting (response)
EVS hardware
• Handsets– Uniquely coded with
six alpha-numeric digits
• Receiver– Plugs into USB port,– Installed in all PCs in teaching
classrooms
SRN Name Evs09234561 John
Smith04427F
EVS software
How to download TurningPoint
• Install TurningPoint software, version 4.3.2.1178, onto your computer. This version is being used by the University in 2012-13.
• Click on the link below to download the TurningPoint software
• http://www.studynet2.herts.ac.uk/ptl/common/technical_support.nsf/turningpoint
Download the ‘Turning Point’ software to your computer desktophttp://www.turningtechnologies.com/responsesystemsupport/downloads/
Save it as an icon to your desktop
Activity 1: Please vote to demonstrate our live example
Question: Which of these do you find most challenging in a class?Answers:
25%
50%
25%
0%0%
1. Engaging students2. Giving feedback3. Bridging the gap between teaching
and learning4. Teaching international students5. Maintaining student motivation
Creating an EVS activity· Start TurningPoint (you must not have
PowerPoint open)
· Open powerpoint.
· Click on Insert slides
· Select the slide type, and insert question e.g. Vertical slide
· Add answers where it says ‘enter answer text’
Writing an Interactive slide
Slide types• Slide types• Vertical• True/False• Picture
Insert Object• Correct answer indicator• Response counter• Countdown
Objects you may find useful
Setting the correct answer
Click here
Modifying an interactive slide
· Add more choices of answer· chart will be updated
· Insert object· insert correct answer
· Correct answer indicator
· Insert Countdown timer, edit the time
The TurningPoint Showbar
The showbar appears when running your interactive slides.
1. % Toggles between % and counts on your chart
2. Repoll the Question
3. Response Grid, to see which participants have responded
4. Non-response Grid
5. Indicates the number of responses received during a poll.
6. Countdown timer
7. Indicates that polling is open and responses will be accepted.
8. Polling closed
1 3 4 56 72
Activity 2.
• Create a MCQ as an interactive slide in TurningPoint
• Add the correct answer• Insert object to show the correct answer• Add a count indicator
‘Downloading’ the class list from the StudyNet module site
Right click and save target as ‘class.tpl’
How to ‘upload’ the class list to TurningPoint
Creating a participant list
· Can run it anonymously?
· Import an participant list
· Select participant list to be used in session
How to pre-test your interactive session
1. Click on ‘Response Devices’2. Click on ‘Simulated Data’3. Run presentation – using ‘slide show’4. Don’t forget to reset to ‘response devices’ before you start your session.
Reminder:1. Start TurningPoint programme
(which will run PowerPoint)
2. Open your TurningPoint file from your memory stick.
3. Upload your participant list from your memory stick.
4. Select your participant list for the session
5. Run the session (slide show)
6. Save session data to your memory stick if your have used the PC in the classroom.
How to create a report?· Click on tools, select reports
· Choose the session you want to create a report on
· Can use saved information from your memory stick
· Go to Reports, and choose the type of report
· Click ‘Generate Report’
· Report generated in Excel
‘Pause for thought ‘
Turning Point:• Enables the report to capture
the data to a “participation list” Challenge: – not all students collect their handsets – participation list needs to updated regularly
Activity 3:• Use the ‘simulated data function’ and run a
session
• Create a report as above
Example:
Use of EVS for ‘Drop Quiz’
Example:• A number (4-7 in total) of
unannounced quizzes to be included in coursework (10%)
• Best (2-5) scores to be counted, ‘no resits’
• Brief quiz of 4-5 questions at start of lecture (~10 min)
Objectives:• To encourage greater
engagement in module• Better level of attendance• Reinforce active learning
throughout the year• Provide ongoing feedback
on personal understanding throughout the year
Drop quiz
• Drop quiz – occur randomly, best x out of y count.
• Absence from a drop quiz, ‘forgetting’ the handset or a flat battery – lose a life!
Activity 4: work in groups
Work in groups to reflect on:
1. How are you going to use EVS and2. What problems do you envisage and what can we do to help.• LTI – educational• IH – hardware
Suggestion of uses of EVS be used?
• Question and answer sessions – formative or summative
• Give instant feedback• Seek opinions – e.g. ethical issues• Maths diagnostic tests• Record attendance• Drop quizzes: best 4 from 5 scores• Team competitions
Some good practice points when using EVS….
• Formative use before summative (Burnstein & Leaderman 2001).
• Test slide.• Summative- expectations of students and
organisation of summative test.
Have a go…• Download TurningPoint software• Set up a few slides (TP & PPT slides)• Run the slideshow• Save the data• Reset the date• Save the presentation• Check channel (and presence) of receiver
tools ->settings->response device• Look for likely issues• Get help if you need and try it out..
Handsets
• Handsets are issued to students free of charge• Replacement handsets carry a charge – equivalent to
the loss of an ID card• Students are responsible for replacing batteries –
equivalent to the use of calculators. Students can buy the batteries at the student union shop.
Regulations
• Giving your handset to another student or being in possession of another’s handset is considered an academic offence – equivalent to cheating. Equivalent to “loaning” an ID card.
• A student not returning a handset is considered a debtor
UH Assessment for Learning Principles
• Engages students with the assessment criteria• Supports personalised learning• Ensures feedback leads to improvement• Focuses on student development• Stimulates dialogue• Considers student and staff effort
Getting help
• LTI Knowledge Exchange– Help with Technology: EVS– Getting started Camtasia Video
• Online tutorials:– www.turningtechnologies.co.uk
• Blip paper on ‘How to use EVS’:– www.herts.ac.uk/blip
Thank you and any questions
ITEAM: Julie Vuolo [email protected] Robins [email protected] Entwistle [email protected] Webber [email protected] Gormley-Fleming