Brief look at three systems which can be used to let students vote in lectures - pedagogical issues, comparison of features, and simple how-tos.

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Audience voting systems in lectures
Terese Bird and Catherine Leyland
Leicester Learning Institute
Focus On: Student Engagement
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Why use Audience Response Systems?
• Students’ attention diminishes after 20 min (Jackson,
Ganger, Bridge, & Ginsburg, 2005)
• Anonymity – no recrimination (Durbin & Durbin, 2006)
• Better participation than without ARS (Siau, Sheng, & Nah,
2006)
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Learning benefits (Kay & LeSage, 2009, p. 822)

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Learning benefits (Kay & LeSage, 2009, p. 822)

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Suggested voting systems
System Supported? Devices Limits What kind of
computer to run
it?
Other notes
Turning-
Point
Yes Borrow from
bookav
None? University-
owned PC with
TurningPoint
installed
System may be
booked out
Participoll Not banned Smartphones,
tablets,
laptops
Wifi Any PC to create
& run; any
browser to vote
Give students URL
Socrative Not banned Smartphones,
tablets,
laptops
50
max,
Wifi
Any browser or
app to run; need
app to vote
Students must get
free app

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TurningPoint
1. Install on university PC
2. Launch
3. Click PowerPoint Polling
4. May need to install on
demonstrator computer
as well
5.
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Participoll
1. Start an account http://www.participoll.com/
2. You create a URL where students will enter answers
3. Install the Participoll plug-in (don’t need admin rights)
http://www.participoll.com/downloads/
4. Open your Powerpoint, click Insert Poll, add questions
5. Make sure Participoll
is installed on demo
computer, click Start
Polling

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Socrative
1. Start a Teacher account http://www.socrative.com/
2. ‘Manage Quizzes’ to begin (quizzes are not part of Powerpoint)
3. Students create a student account, download free app, enter your
Room Number

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Socrative tips
1. Most stable if you run the quiz from browser of a hardwired
networked computer
2. To run the quiz, go back to Dashboard and click Start a Quiz
3. When you close that, you are given options of reports emailed
to you in Excel format

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Try it!
Need help? Email lli@le.ac.uk
References
Durbin, S. M., & Durbin, K. A. (2006). Anonymous polling in an engineering tutorial
environment: A case study. In D. A. Banks (Ed.), Audience response systems in higher
education (pp. 116–126). Hershey, PA: Information Science Publishing.
Jackson, M., Ganger, A. C., Bridge, P. D., & Ginsburg, K. (2005, December 9). Wireless
Handheld Computers in the Undergraduate Medical Curriculum. Medical Education
Online. Retrieved from http://med-ed-online.net/index.php/meo/article/view/4386
Kay, R. H., & LeSage, A. (2009). Examining the benefits and challenges of using audience
response systems: A review of the literature. Computers & Education, 53, 819–827.
Siau, K., Sheng, H., & Nah, F. (2006). Use of classroom response system to enhance
classroom interactivity. IEEE Transactions on Education, 49(3), 398–403.