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…
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…
Revisiting LEaD Light Lunch 20/21. Whole Group live teaching ideas by Stian Reimers
This is the first part of a set of three resources, shared in a LEaD Light Lunch session on teaching online with Zoom, by Stian Reimers, Reader in Psychology (School of Arts and Social Sciences)…
Revisiting LEaD Light Lunch 20/21. Part 3. Best Digital education tools
This is the third blog revisiting LEaD Light Lunch sessions and it brings together some favourite digital educational tools available here at City: Firstly, there are polling tools. Snigdha Nag (City Law school Professional Programmes) presented an interactive session on the use of Microsoft Forms for multiple-choice questions in class. Snigdha showed us how she…