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:

• Direct and anonymous feedback in teaching
• Warm up & activation of your students with feedbackr
• Self-assessment by students with feedbackr

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.