Find tools to get feedback from students online in real-time, such as during lectures, or outside of any designated time. All tools recommended by the LT Hub have passed a UBCPrivacy Impact Assessmentand receive central technical and pedagogical support.
Synchronous Feedback
Asking students questions during a live session like a lecture can be done with built-in features of web-conferencing and collaboration tools like Collaborate Ultra and Zoom or with a dedicated student response system like iClicker Cloud.
General Tips
- Use polls regularly during synchronous online sessions to increase student interaction and engagement.
- Including pre- and post-activity polls helps you gauge students’ understanding of course topics before and after learning activities.
- Analyze poll reports after class sessions to diagnose where students are encountering challenges with subject matter and could use more guidance from you.
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Cost for use:
None
带宽需求:
High(a slow Internet connection may impact access)
Requirements for FIPPA compliant use:
None
Collaborate Ultra Polling
Conduct polling during real-time online lectures, presentations, or meetings with Collaborate Ultra’s built-in feature.
What are the benefits?
- You can create on-the-fly, multiple-choice questions with up to five answer choices or yes/no responses.
- After the session, you can download a report that includes the poll question and how each participant responded.
Cost for use:
None
带宽需求:
Low(a slow Internet connection should not impact basic access)
Requirements for FIPPA compliant use:
None; but students may use pseudonyms to protect their privacy, as some account data is hosted outside Canada.
iClicker Cloud
Collect and optionally grade responses to in-class questions that students answer individually using the iClicker Cloud web interface on their own computer or mobile device.
What are the benefits?
- You can check student knowledge and opinions in real time through polls (single questions) and quizzes (sets of multiple questions), conducted anonymously or for marks online.
- You receive the responses instantly, and you can use these results to inform your teaching and/or share them with the class.
- iClicker Cloud poll and quiz results can automatically count toward student grades in Canvas, if you set up syncing.
Cost for use:
None
带宽需求:
High(a slow Internet connection may impact access)
Requirements for FIPPA compliant use:
None; however, you should advise students not to sign in to free Zoom accounts, as these accounts store metadata about tool use on U.S. servers
Zoom Polling
Conduct polling during real-time online lectures, presentations, or meetings with Zoom’s built-in feature.
What are the benefits?
- You can create multiple-choice questions (where you can have students pick one or multiple answers) ahead of time. You can also create these polls on-the-fly during a session.
- Polling outcomes are available anonymously after the session, so you can get a sense of overall responses but can’t track individual student participation.
Asynchronous Feedback
Get in-depth feedback by running a survey for students to take at a time of their choosing.
General Tips
- Use a survey tool to gathermid-course feedbackfor a course or program to formatively shape the remainder of the time.
- In research-focused courses, give students the opportunity to design and distribute their own surveys.
Cost for use:
None
带宽需求:
Low(a slow Internet connection should not impact basic access)
Requirements for FIPPA compliant use:
None
Qualtrics
Securely collect student feedback with UBC’s main survey tool.
What are the benefits?
- You and your students can choose from more than 100 question types as well as add advanced branching and other workflow customization.
- You can collaborate on surveys with other UBC users and/or privately share outcomes with specific individuals using the built-in automated reporting, visualizations, and analytics.
- The Survey IQ feature allows you to assess your survey’s accessibility and design before you send it out.