This is the slide I use when I do sharing during the eFiesta.

1. Blackboard i-SMS
Presented by : Sally Loan
National Institute of Education
Senior Educational Technologist

2. Share items
• NIE SMS
• NIE i-SMS
• Future Plan

3. NIE SMS
• SMS is an building block in Blackboard
customized in-house for instructors to contact
student(s) via phone message

4. • Instructor can send phone messages to
various recipient types

5. i-SMS
• Interactive SMS is an in-house customized
instant lecture feedback feature in GeNIEus
available to instructors only.
• Instructors can use this feature to display
questions or votes to students.
• The system receives input via mobile devices.

6. Why i-SMS?
• “i” stands for interactive
• Tapping on what the students already have ..
Mobile devices
• Enhancement upon NTU’ solution on mobile
feedback
• A mean for teaching staff to engage the
students during the lesson

7. Launch i-SMS
• Access any course
• Click “Communications”

8. Launch i-SMS
• Click “SMS Messaging Tool”
• Click “Interactive SMS”

9. Start the i-SMS session
• Click “Start Session”
• E.g. student enter the message on phone
• 302 Can you give some example of problem-based learning?

10. Message option
• Switching to vote option

11. Voting option
• Toggle from message to vote option

12. Voting (T/F)
• Safe Assignment is a plagiarism tools in
GeNIEus (Blackboard)?
“T” or “t” for True
“F” or “f” for False

13. Voting (Y/N)
• You can send SMS via GeNIEus (Blackboard)?
“Y” or “y” for Yes
“N” or “n” for No

14. Voting (MCQ)
• Which software allows you to create the
test/survey questions offline and publish to
GeNIEus (Blackboard)?
“A” or “a”: Wimba Voice Tools
“B” or “b”: Respondus
“C” or “c”: Hot Potatoes
“D” or “d”: Quandary

15. Simple guide
• http://bit.ly/vWGOLZ

16. E.g. question posted by students

17. E.g. Vote reply

18. Feedback received
• Students like the fact that they can use mobile
to post question anonymously
• Instructors appreciate the feature to enable
them to gather response without any
installation of additional software
• No additional gadget

19. Future Plan
• Next phase for i-SMS

20. Future Plan
• Mobile enabled
• Allow instructor to create question before
lesson time

21. Future Plan
• Student are allowed to join the session when
instructor is also in the same session

22. Future Plan
• Allow instructor to review the result after
lesson time

23. Future Plan
• Using twitter as a back channeling?

24. Future Plan
• Using mobile app (eClicker Host)

26. eClicker

27. eClicker Host & eClicker

28. Socrative – student response system

29. Socrative - Teacher Clicker

30. Socrative – Student Clicker

31. Technical specialist
• Eric Bonneau, Project Manager from
Computer Service Centre
• Lum Hon Pheng, System Analyst from
Computer Service Centre