Opinion Polls & topic identification with feedbackr

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Your students can contribute to the lessons with feedbackr: For example, let them choose from a selection of topics to be covered. Students can also use feedbackr to choose which exercise to do as homework. Any decision-making in the classroom that has an impact on your students can be ideally mapped.

Use single or multiple choice questions if you want your students to choose from a set of topics. If you want to get ideas from your students, you can also use free text questions.

Benefits

  • Students can actively participate in the configuration of the lesson.
  • Teachers get a sense of which topics are interesting for the students and can adjust the lessons accordingly.
  • Decision making within the group can be dealt with quickly.

Recommended settings in feedbackr

Multiple Choice question

Show results immediately: disable, if the results should remain “secret” until the resolution. Activate this setting if you feel that there is a “competition” among students with the aim that their favorite subject wins.

multiple choice: Depending on the type of question, a multiple choice may make sense.

Free text question

Show answers:

  • never: The students never see the topics that have been entered. Regarding transparency, this adjustment is rather not recommended.
  • once stopped: the students see all the suggested topics of the others as soon as the voting is stopped.
  • immediately: the suggested topics become directly visible to all students. This is especially useful in combination with the setting “Answer Ranking”.

Multiple answers: enable this setting if you want your students to submit more than one suggested topic.

Answer Ranking: only effective in combination with “Show answers: immediately”. Thereby Students control the prioritization of answers / topics.

You find other use cases in our blogpost series:

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Repetition of lecture with feedbackr

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At the end of the lesson, students should be able to answer questions about the subject that has just been dealt with. Therefore, you can ask some questions at the end of the lesson. This has the effect that your students are once again actively involved in the topic. On the other hand, it is also an indicator for teachers of how well the material was understood and where to go in the next lesson.

You can use single or multiple-choice questions with the option “Show correct answers”.

Benefits

  • You quickly get an overview of what the students understood and where there are still problems. You can react accordingly and lessons are constantly improved.
  • Students are once again actively involved with the presented material. This will consolidate what they have learned.
  • Students get a sense of what they understand and where they still have shortcomings.

Recommended settings in feedbackr

Multiple choice question

Show results immediately: To avoid interference, this setting should be disabled.

Multiple choice: depending on the type of question, if multiple answers can be selected, activate.

Mark answers as correct: If you ask knowledge questions, you can also mark answers as correct. To do this, in the edit mode of the question, click on the circle (for single choice questions) or the square (for multiple choice questions) in the answers that you want to mark as correct. The correct answers will also be shown to your students after stopping the question.

Feedback on presentations / seminar papers / exercises with feedbackr

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In seminars or exercises, presentations or solving a problem in front of a class are common. In addition to the teacher’s assessment, the anonymous and therefore sincere feedback from the other students can be incorporated. For example, the students could vote on the following areas:

  • understanding
  • presentation
  • rhetoric
  • design
  • etc

Use single or multiple choice questions for quantitative evaluation. If you also want to obtain qualitative feedback, you can use free text questions.

Benefits

  • Anonymous, valuable feedback from students
  • By focusing on the strengths / weaknesses of the speakers, students get a sense of the quality of their own performance.
    In addition to the own assessment of the presentations, the teacher can incorporate the feedback of the students.

Recommended settings in feedbackr

Free text question

Show answers:

  • never: the answers are only visible to you. This setting is useful if you want to collect feedback, but only visible for you or the organizer.
  • after stopping: this setting causes the answers to become visible to the participants when you stop the question. This way you can prevent mutual interference.
  • immediately: the answers are immediately visible to the entire audience. This is especially useful if you want to collect questions or topics.

Multiple answers: enable this setting if you want your students to answer more than one answer.

Answer Ranking: allows you to prioritize questions by your students. Only in combination with “show answers: immediately” available.

Single choice question

Show results immediately: deactivate to avoid mutual interference

 

With this variant, you can collect valuable feedback for your students and further develop the way they create presentations.

Take a look at our previous blog posts on education topics!

Have fun using feedbackr in your lectures!

 

Partner / Group discussions with feedbackr

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In a partner or group discussion, students should actively and intensively deal with a topic and discuss it. To do this, ask a question at the beginning and let all students vote but without naming the correct solution. If many wrong answers have been given, ask your students to discuss the question and the different answer options or convince the neighbor of their solution. After the discussion, the same question is asked again and the correct answer is resolved.

Use single or multiple choice questions. For the second round of questions, you can use the “show correct answers” option.

Benefits

  • Students intensively deal intensively with the topic and get further perspectives through the discussion.
  • Students are given the ability to present and represent arguments in a coherent manner.

Recommended settings in feedbackr

Multiple-Choice-Question

Show results immediately: deactivate to avoid mutual influence.

Multiple choice: depending on the type of question

Mark answers as correct: to do this, in the edit mode of the question, click on the circle (for single choice questions) or the square (for multiple choice questions) in the answers that you want to mark as correct. The correct answers will also be shown to your students after stopping the question.

The question can be prepared several times by duplicating.

With this variant you can make the lessons even more lively and varied.

 

Next week, we will introduce the uses of feedbackr for feedback on presentations, seminar papers or exercises.

feedbackr can be used in a wide variety of ways in teaching:

 

Exam preparation using feedbackr

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There is often a tense situation among students before examinations. Every teacher hears the question “what will come to the examination” several times. feedbackr can be ideally used to give your students a sense of what they need to prepare for, or to create awareness of where there are still deficits.

To give your students an insight into what an exam might look like, use feedbackr to create a questionnaire. Your students answer your questions and get a sense of where they are in the development of the learning material and are actively concerned with the topic.

Use single or multiple choice questions with the “Show correct answers” option.

Variants

  1. Calculation of examples or derivation of formulas: provide a calculation example. Your students can calculate the example manually and select the appropriate answer via feedbackr.
  2. Knowledge questions: ask general knowledge questions.

Benefits

  • You get an overview of the learning status of your students.
  • Students can better understand what the exam might look like and what kind of questions are asked.
  • Students can better assess their level of knowledge.
  • Students are once again actively engaged with the topic area.

Recommended settings in feedbackr

Multiple Choice Question

Show results immediately: deactivate to avoid mutual interference

Multiple choice: depending on the type of question, if multiple answers can be selected, activate.

Mark answers as correct: If you ask knowledge questions, you can also mark answers as correct. To do this, in the edit mode of the question, click on the circle (for single choice questions) or the square (for multiple choice questions) in the answers that you want to mark as correct. The correct answers will also be shown to your students after stopping the question.

 

Next week, we will introduce the uses of feedbackr for partner and group discussions.

feedbackr can be used in a wide variety of ways in teaching:

Self-assessment by students with feedbackr

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Self-assessments give students the opportunity to consciously reflect on their strengths and weaknesses. Also for the teachers, the collected anonymous results of the self-assessment provide valuable additional information which can be integrated into the lesson/course. This gives the teacher a clearer picture of the students’ overall learning progress.

Use multiple choice questions and make sure that only one answer can be selected (“Multiple Choice” disabled). Important: make sure that the “Show results immediately” setting is deactivated so that students do not influence each other.

Benefits

  • Students reflect on the material presented.
  • Teachers receive an assessment of the learning status of their students.

Recommended settings in feedbackr

Single choice question

Show results immediately: depending on the question, you can activate this option. If you want to avoid mutual influence between students, deactivate this setting.

Multiple Choice: If students are supposed to give multiple answers, activate this setting

Free text question (available in feedbackr education advanced)

Show answers:

  • immediately: if all students should be able to see the answers of others immediately
  • after stopping: The answers will be visible to the students if you stop the question.
  • never: the answers are only visible for you, never for your students

Multiple answers: activate that option if you want your students can ask more than one question

Answer Ranking: this allows your students to prioritize the answers. This setting is only effective in combination with “Show answers: immediately”.

 

Give your students the opportunity to self-assess and try it out now!

Do you already know our other articles about use cases in education:

Next week, we will introduce you to the uses of feedbackr for test and examination preparations.

Warm up & activation of your students with feedbackr

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Entering a new teaching unit has a lot of potential to activate your students. Previous knowledge can be queried with certain questions and lectures be planned and structured together. The students are already familiar with the topic in advance and are attuned to the course. Here are a few examples of the questions that can be used:

  • query prior knowledge
  • estimation questions
  • planning of the lecture
  • self-assessment of students
  • what is still unclear about the last unit?

Use single or multiple choice questions. You can use the function “Show correct answers“, if you ask knowledge questions. You can also use free text questions to collect questions about the last unit.

Benefits

  • You get the attention of your students
  • Students are activated to participate
  • You will learn more about the interests or the level of knowledge of your students and will be able to respond even better to them

Recommended settings in feedbackr

Multiple Choice Question

Show results immediately: depending on the question, you can activate this option. If you want to avoid mutual influence between students, deactivate this setting.

Multiple Choice: If students are supposed to be able to give multiple answers, activate this setting

Mark answers as correct: If you ask knowledge questions, you can also mark answers as correct. To do this, in the edit mode of the question, click on the circle (for single selection) or the square (for multiple selection) in the answers that you want to mark as correct. The correct answers will also be shown to the students after stopping the question.

Free text question (available in feedbackr education advanced)


Show answers:

  • immediately: if all students should be able to see questions of others immediately
  • after stopping: The answers will be visible to the students if you stop the question.
  • never: the answers are only visible for you, never for your students

Multiple answers: activate that option if you want your students are able to ask more than one question

Ranking of answers: this allows you to have your students prioritize the questions. This setting is only effective in combination with “Show answers: immediately”.

 

Have you ever used feedbackr to make it easier for your students to get started? What are your experiences with it? We are looking forward to your comments!

Do you know our blog post about direct and anonymous feedback in teaching?

Next week we will present opportunities for self-assessment of pupils and students with feedbackr.

Direct and anonymous feedback in teaching

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feedbackr education can be used in a variety of ways in teaching. We are presenting in a series didactic recommendations for your lessons and lectures, which have already proved their worth in media didactic. We explain the common application possibilities and the steps to be taken.

One way of using feedbackr education is to receive direct and anonymous feedback from your students. This feedback can simplify planning and structuring your lessons and significantly increase the learning success and motivation of your students. The feedback helps you to find out where there are difficulties or problems with understanding, but also what works well and is well received.

You can use both free text and multiple choice questions.

Variants to obtain feedback

  1. Get feedback throughout the entire course. Leave a free text question open until the end of the course. Free text questions are available in feedbackr education advanced.
  2. Punctual/specific feedback: Get explicit feedback on specific topics. The feedback can be obtained quantitatively with the help of multiple-choice questions or qualitatively with free-text questions. If you use multiple-choice questions you should disable the “show results immediately” setting to prevent students from influencing each other.

Benefits

  • You receive feedback during the lesson and can respond promptly.
  • Your students can directly interact with you and post topics immediately, not just after the lesson, where it is often forgotten.

Recommended settings in feedbackr

Multiple-Choice question

Show results immediately: deactivate to prevent mutual influence.

Multiple Choice: optional, depending on your intentions

Free text question (available in feedbackr education advanced)

Show answers:

  • immediately: if all students should be able to see the other’s feedback immediately
  • after stopping: The feedback will be visible to students if you stop the question.
  • never: the feedback is only visible for you, never for your students

Multiple answers: activate this setting if you want your students to enter more than one answer

Ranking of answers: enable this feature if you want students to be able to rate and weight responses. This setting is only effective in combination with “Show answers: immediately”.

 

 

Have you ever used feedbackr to get feedback from your students? What are your experiences with it? We appreciate your comments!