{"id":4065,"date":"2016-05-17T09:45:06","date_gmt":"2016-05-17T08:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/tel\/?p=4065"},"modified":"2016-06-10T16:52:49","modified_gmt":"2016-06-10T15:52:49","slug":"plickers-easy-use-quizzing-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/tel\/2016\/05\/17\/plickers-easy-use-quizzing-tool\/","title":{"rendered":"Plickers! An easy-to-use quizzing tool"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Plickers

Demonstrating Plickers with the question ‘what do you think Brighton pier should be called’?<\/p><\/div>\n

The TEL team recently demonstrated <\/span>Plickers<\/span><\/a> at the annual <\/span>University of Sussex Teaching and Learning Conference 2016<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The theme of the conference was inclusivity. <\/span>To build on this theme, we\u00a0demonstrated how to use technology to encourage participation with two TEL favourites, Padlet<\/a> and Plickers<\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n

Padlet is an online wall that students\u00a0can\u00a0add to with just a double-click (text, a document, a video clip or\u00a0audio file). Plickers are paper voting cards that combine with a clever little app to\u00a0receive feedback. We\u00a0will look at Plickers in more detail in this post.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Why use Plickers?<\/b><\/h3>\n
\"Plicker\"

Print your own Plickers (available in sets of 40 or 63). C is selected by this Plicker as C is at the top.<\/p><\/div>\n

You can use Plickers in a variety of\u00a0situations such as teaching, training, research \u00a0–\u00a0any time that you want to get\u00a0feedback or encourage interaction within a group.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Plickers are readable paper shapes. You distribute these to\u00a0students who then interact with a question that you \u2018push\u2019 to a LiveScreen view. Each student uses the Plicker to\u00a0indicate\u00a0their answer\/opinion which you can receive by\u00a0scanning your students with the\u00a0Plickers app.<\/span><\/p>\n

The great thing about Plickers is that only you, the tutor needs a working Smartphone.\u00a0Even if students all have their own\u00a0Smartphone, they may have phones that don\u2019t work effectively to participate in an activity that relies upon an app. For example, they may have\u00a0limited memory with no space for a new app or a battery that doesn\u2019t last the length of a seminar.<\/p>\n

There are additional issues that you need to be aware of when using polling technologies that rely on Smartphones:<\/p>\n