From January 8th 2024, the way you access your Poll Everywhere account is changing. Rather than having to remember a separate password, you will now be able to use City’s Single Sign-on to access your account. What does this mean for staff? How do I log into Poll Everywhere from 8th Jan? The Poll Everywhere…
Team-based Quizzing with Poll Everywhere
INTRODUCING SEGMENTED QUIZZING Keen to try and add some team-based gaming elements to your teaching, but not sure where to start? Feel like you’ve taken Poll Everywhere about as far as you can in your classes, but would still like to take it to a next level? I might have just this thing for you….
SASS Innovators Lunch Event: Poll Everywhere with Jayne Morgan
On the 3rd of May we ran our first SASS Innovators Lunch. Jayne Morgan, Senior Lecturer in Diagnostic Radiography, School of Health Sciences presented on the effective use of Poll Everywhere in face-to-face teaching and shared with us her top tips on how to use it to enhance student learning. SASS Innovators lunch it’s a…
Active Learning at City – Poll Everywhere User Group
Last month, City, University of London hosted the Poll Everywhere UK User Group. The community event attracted 50 participants from more than 20 UK Higher Education institutions. This was an opportunity to showcase recent developments at the University, like the newly opened entrance and our growing number of enhanced learning spaces, while sharing innovations in technology-enhanced teaching. Poll Everywhere is City’s ‘student response system’, which…
5 Things to Do with Poll Everywhere
In our continuing series ‘5 Things to do with…’, we look at Poll Everywhere. Poll Everywhere is the web based version of the physical clickers. It can be run from any web enabled device via a browser or an app. It offers a wider range of questions than clickers do, allowing lecturers to ask students…
Poll Everywhere User Group, meeting #1
On 8 February I attended the inaugural Poll Everywhere User Group meeting at Regent’s University. The group was set up by Matt.Lingard@uwl.ac.uk and Anna.Armstrong@uwl.ac.uk of the University of West London, “for educational users of Poll Everywhere in the UK…. primarily for staff in FE & HE”*. Matt had shown me Poll Everywhere when he worked…
Audience response using Poll Everywhere
This year I have been using Poll Everywhere in my teaching. Poll Everywhere is an audience response system which allows students to answer a variety of questions in class using their own phones, tablets or laptops, via the web using a data or wifi connection, or via twitter or text message. Here I describe…
Reflections on the MA in Academic Practice Symposium
Main themes of the symposium One central theme that emerged from the event was the importance of reflective practice and continuous professional development. The presenters emphasised how the MAAP has encouraged them to pause, reflect on their teaching approaches, and engage with educational theories and literature to shape and refine their practices. Several presenters discussed…
(This is a "Page")Session 1D: (Lightning talk 1) Using a combinative approach of formative assessment tools to gauge learning throughout a module
Dr Andrew Cobb (Lecturer in Biological Sciences) School of Health and Psychological Sciences, City, University of London [Lightning talk 1] This talk focuses on several formative assessment approaches that are used during teaching sessions and during student independent learning. These tools include the use of poll Everywhere quizzes during lectures, scratch cards during tutorials and…
Learning design and development for a blended programme moving fully online
LEaD’s Digital education team have been working with civil engineering academics to support them in re-designing a programme which changed from a blended to a fully online mode of delivery. The project ran from March 2021 to April 2023; this post covers how we worked with the programme team, from design to development to delivery…