TRSAQ

TSARQ REAL TIME SMS QUIZZES Mika Sepp채l채 and Yuri Lebedev

TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS DEMO

TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS DEMO 1

Make sure that your cellphone does not add signatures to your messages.

TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS DEMO 1

Make sure that your cellphone does not add signatures to your messages.

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Send the message SUB TSARQ to 41411.

TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS DEMO 1

Make sure that your cellphone does not add signatures to your messages.

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Send the message SUB TSARQ to 41411.

3

Send the message TSARQ E 5735 to 41411.

Students taking a calculus quiz and answering by SMS messages.

STUDENTS’ COMMENTS I believe that the quizes were the best part of this class.

At first I was unhappy with the use of the PSR system, as a stand alone quiz. However towards the end I enjoyed the integration of the quiz in a lecture/ review, ‌ .

ANONYMOUS ASSESSMENT Over 77% of respondents to an anonymous survey said that they find the Real Time Quizzes useful.

ANONYMOUS ASSESSMENT Over 77% of respondents to an anonymous survey said that they find the Real Time Quizzes useful.

Only 6.6% say that they are not useful.

WebALT SMS Services enable students to answer surveys and quizzes by sending SMS messages to the WebALT server

WebALT Moodle

SMS Gateway

AUTHENTICATION

AUTHENTICATION Students enter their cellular telephone numbers in their profiles.

AUTHENTICATION Students enter their cellular telephone numbers in their profiles.

The system receives messages that get authenticated by the number of the telephone sending the message.

WHAT DO THE STUDENTS DO? Students send the message SUB TSARQ to the number 41411.

WHAT DO THE STUDENTS DO? Students send the message SUB TSARQ to the number 41411.

This needs to be done only once. After a student has subscribed to the service, the student can use it until he or she unsubscribes from the service.

TO TAKE A QUIZ….

Quizzes are being run from the class’ moodle site.

To join a quiz, students send the message TSARQ A <quid id> to 41411.

Let us next take a quiz.

Correct Answer

Correct Answer

Next Question.

Correct Answer

Next Question.

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Next Question.

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WebALT Moodle

SMS Gateway

WebALT TSARQ

PRS Clickers

Works with cell phones.

Special device needed.

WebALT TSARQ

PRS Clickers

Works with cell phones.

Special device needed.

$9

WebALT TSARQ

PRS Clickers

Works with cell phones.

Special device needed.

$9

$ 39.50

PRS Clicker.

Cell phone.

WebALT TSARQ

PRS Clickers

Works with cellphones.

Special device needed.

Answers stored in moodle grade books. No postprocessing.

Answers stored in class computer.

Postprocessing needed.

PRS Clicker Post Processing.

WebALT TSARQ Post Processing.

www.webalt.com Dr. Yuri Lebedev yuri@fsitrust.com