Getting Started with EVS

1. Getting Started with EVS Improving the student experience in learning, teaching and formative assessment

2. Outline of the session: • Why use EVS • What the students think • EVS Hardware & Software • A step by step approach on how to use EVS • Suggested uses of EVS • Student information • Where to get help

3. Why use EVS? Could this be your lecture? I’ve just had a new text Where shall we go tonight? Now does everyone understand? I don’t, but I’m not saying Yes! No! – but you can’t hear me can you?

4. Why we use EVS? • Encourage active student participation • Engage with the whole class • Check and capture student knowledge • formative/summative • Give prompt feedback • Give quiet students a voice – including international students • Add interest and fun UH Assessment-for-Learning Principles, 2012 • Engages students with the assessment criteria • Supports personalised learning • Ensures feedback leads to improvement • Focuses on student development • Stimulates dialogue • Considers student and staff effort

5. What does an Electronic Voting System do?

6. Suggested uses of EVS • Question and answer sessions – formative or summative • Seek opinions – e.g. ethical issues • Maths diagnostic tests • Drop quizzes e.g. best 4 from 5 scores • Team-based learning • Introduce competitive element to learning e.g. team-based learning

7. What do the students think? EEVS project survey 590 students, 2011-12 EVS had highly positive (perceived) impact on students’ learning and satisfaction • Responding to questions made me think about the course material (84%) • EVS provided me with an immediate check of understanding (83%) • Using the EVS allowed problem areas to be identified (75%) • I enjoy using EVS in my learning (71%) Summative use of EVS has in some cases created unnecessary tension, anxiety and indicated inadequacies of the technology for formal examinations. • Not given enough time for answering questions • Not testing how easily you can use device but how much you know about the subject • Should be able to cancel answers as it is possible to press a wrong button accidentally • Unable to amend your answers once the question has moved on • Using the handsets for a test , made the test feel less important, almost ‘gimmicky’

8. Terminology • TurningPoint (TP) is a type of Electronic Voting System (EVS) or Personal Response System (PRS) • Software – TurningPoint is free to download from the website • Receiver has a USB connection already in all classroom computers • Interactive slide – a slide that takes voting (response) • Scanning unit – assigns Student ID to handset • Handset (Response Card) has a unique Device ID on the back

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10. How to download TurningPoint for PCs • Install TurningPoint 5 software • This version is being used by the University 2013-14 onward(Note, you will be asked to register your details). • Click on the link to download below to download TurningPoint software

11. Download the ‘Turning Point’ software to your computer desktop http://www.turningtechnologies.com/responsesystemsupport/downloads/ Save it as an icon to your desktop

12. Activity 1: Please vote to demonstrate our live exampleQuestion:Which of these do you find most challenging in a class?Answers: • Engaging students • Giving feedback • Bridging the gap between teaching and learning • Teaching international students • Maintaining student motivation

13. Creating an EVS activity • Start TurningPoint (you must not have PowerPoint open) • Click on ‘New’ • Select the slide type, and insert question e.g. Vertical slide • Add question at the top and answer in the box below

14. Writing an Interactive slide

15. Converting existing PP presentation to an interactive slide • Paste in slide from ordinary PP • The question must be in the top line and the answers in the box beneath (as in the interactive slides you set up from scratch) • Select ‘Object’ then click on ‘charts’ • Select choice your choice of chart (graph) and the slide will be converted to an interactive question slide

16. Example: What day is it? • Monday • Not sure • Wednesday • Friday • Sunday

17. Setting the correct answer Click here

18. Modifying an interactive slide • Add more choices of answer • chart will be updated • Insert object • Correct answer indicator • Insert Countdown timer, edit the time

19. Activity 2. • Create a MCQ as an interactive slide in TurningPoint • Add the correct answer • Insert object to show the correct answer • Add a count indicator

20. How to pre-test your interactive MCQ/session 1. Click here to get drop down menu. Click on ‘Simulated Data’ 2. Run presentation – using ‘slide show’ 3. Don’t forget to reset to ‘Live polling’ before you start your session.

21. Activity 3: • Use the ‘simulated data function’ and run a session • See if you can work out how to run a report

22. The TurningPoint Showbar The showbar appears when running your interactive slides. • % Toggles between % and counts on your chart • Repoll the Question • Response Grid, to see which participants have responded • Non-response Grid • Indicates the number of responses received during a poll. • Countdown timer • Indicates that polling is open and responses will be accepted. • Polling closed 1 2 3 4 6 5 7

23. Quick check: • Always start in TurningPoint programme (which will run PowerPoint). Make sure PowerPoint is not open. • Make sure the presentation is not in simulated mode • Have some spare handsets with you • Make sure students know how to use the handsets • Check everyone is on the right channel • Run a test slide to check everything is working • Run the interactive session. • Only use a compatible ‘presenter card’ • Ifsaving session data in a teaching room save to a memory stick 9. Re-set the session after saving ready for next time

24. Activity 4:Discuss how you could use EVS in your teaching

25. Some good practice points when using EVS…. • Let the teaching approach lead the use of technology not the other way round • Always start with a test slide, read out the questions and answers in full and tell the students when polling is opened and when it is about to close • Consider inclusivity and accessibility • Use formatively before using summatively (Burnstein & Leaderman 2001). • When ready to use summatively, ensure expectations clear and test conditions implemented (and contact an experienced colleague or the Assessment team for further support)

26. Student information • Handsets are issued to students free of charge • Replacement handsets carry a charge – equivalent to the loss of an ID card. N.B. student may be marked as a debtor if payment outstanding • Students are responsible for replacing the handset battery • Giving handsets to another student or being in possession of another’s handset is considered an academic offence – equivalent to cheating (like “loaning” an ID card) • Further help is available on the EVS page within Studynet (via EVS search on home page or go via LTI site). Put link on the programme page!

27. Getting help • Help Desk tel. 4678 • Hints and Tips postcards • LTI Knowledge Exchange • Help with Technology: EVS • Getting started Camtasia Video • Software download & online tutorials: • www.turningtechnologies.co.uk

28. Any questions