Response Systems

Using Response Systems
 
With the advent of social networking sites and the growth of journalism and media industry, the world has become a small place. Today, everybody’s opinion counts.  Whether you are electing a minister, constructing a dam, choosing your favourite reality TV star, stating your position on a political issue, sensitizing people about a particular social or economic topic, knowing their opinion about anything that affects them, or teaching students, the one thing that bonds these factors is the use Voting system.

Areas where polling systems are used:

• Electronic Feedback forms
• Quiz shows
• News Shows
• Seminars
• Audience awareness programs
• School/college teaching
• Instant assessment
• Voting for any and all purposes.
• Unburdens the teachers from checking and allotting marks

You might be thinking that in a closed group or at a classroom level voting becomes such an easy task. The presenter, teacher, or speaker might as well ask the audience to raise their hands, or use some such method to conduct polling.

Sounds Easy peasy!?

Well, as they say, ‘Easier said than done.’

Though counting heads and raised hands or taking feedback on paper are still the favoured norms, yet one cannot discount the fact that these methods of polling, feedback and assessment take forever.

Let us now take a look at the drawbacks of this manual polling system.

• Excessively Time consuming.
• High chances of incorrect evaluation. Teachers/Examiners/Evaluators take a lot of time reading, going through the answer sheets, correcting mistakes and assessing the students’ performance. Since it is all manual, there is a big chance that the teacher might overlook some mistakes thereby giving an incorrect assessment.

How does having Interactive Response System save you?

An interactive system effectively enhances the interaction levels of the classroom and makes everything organized and at the same time cost and time effective.

With an interactive response system you can:

• Take polls
• Expect answers to your questions in a variety of formats
• No scope for incorrect evaluation
• Instant assessment
• Evaluate poll results in a variety of ways
• Email results in a various formats, forms and presentations
• Form strategies, formulate plans and reach conclusions based on poll results
• Re-emphasize the key concepts unclear to students (If higher percentage of students answer a particular question incorrectly, then you know that the specific idea is still not clear to the students)
• Redefining teaching methodology as per the response system results.

With so many advantages at your disposal, bring interactive audience response systems for an amazing polling, voting and student response performance.

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Audience Response System- Smarter solution for effective assessment

Can we imagine a world without technology? Appears worst! In my opinion, technology is a driving force for everything. Without advancement in technology; everything becomes lifeless, boring and so deadly routine. Even if a ‘pinch’ of technology gets added into our mundane routines then it can surely bring a ‘spark’ into our lives.

Similar is the case with education system. Technology plays a vital role in taking education system to the next level. A level; where everything is influenced with digital accessories, Audio-visual elements and numerous other teaching tools. Today’s generation is blessed with technologically upgraded gizmos and gadgets. Students and learners of today have easy access to all kind of ICT and AV solutions including Audience Response Systems, Projectors, Interactive Whiteboards, Touch screens, document cameras, PC, Laptop and lots more.
Amongst these gadgets, Audience Response System is a tremendous teaching solution that has changes the whole face of education system.

What is an Audience Response System?
You must be wondering what an Audience Response System is? An Audience Response System is a battery operated or chargeable handset range by which a presenter asks questions from an audience and then they reply back through their personal handsets. The students' responses are then captured by response system software through the receiver and a report gets generated in the form of table, graph, pie chart etc. Eventually, these reports can be easily displayed on an interactive whiteboards, Touch screens, P.C or on any other projection surface for an audience to see.

Inside the classroom, an Audience Response System can be used by teacher to create new quizzes for students, to prepare mock tests, to introduce real-world scenarios, to identify the weak areas of students and to fetch out their responses and feedbacks.

Genee Response systems are market leading Audience Response Systems which consists of one main teacher handset, and a set of student handsets, one handset receiver and response system software. These are used for carrying out formative and summative assessment in a classroom or lecture room. In other words, it is a highly effective interactive response system that builds up a ‘Two Way Active Communication’ between students and a teacher.

This cutting-edge interactive response system allows yes/no, true/false, numeric and multiple choice answers. Moreover, it can be integrated with PowerPoint to create presentations.

Virtual G-pad is an advance version of Audience Response System which facilitates presenters and teachers to collect share and review real time data from their audience without the requirement of battery operated response systems or clickers. It is interactive response system that has replaced usage of handsets or clickers by an interactive graphic displayed on the screen of any PC, laptop or even handheld platforms (iOS) including iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. Moreover, Virtual G- Pad enables students to give responses to questions asked without being physically present in the classroom.