Learner Response Systems
NIC Partners and Promethean offer three incredible solutions for Learner Response Systems (LRS). Each system provides students and teachers the opportunity to interact both independently and as a team.
ActiVote
Classroom participation is a huge (and sometimes complicated) part of the learning experience. It takes courage to speak up, and nearly psychic abilities to know who understands the lesson. ActiVote offers teachers and students a clearer answer—a friendly Learner Response System that makes sure every voice counts.
With A–F voting capability, a fun to hold shape and intuitive buttons, ActiVote makes 100% class participation fast, fun and easy. Students build confidence with every vote and can track their progress through both instant feedback and scores tallied over time. Teachers find that spontaneity enters the classroom with ActiVote—polling can be performed on the fly, debate can be started at the drop of a hat, and assessment guesswork ends. ActiVote can download student results into spreadsheets and lesson plans for clear achievement records over time, and no one worries whether they’ll be called on and called out in front of the class.
Focus on assessment for learning has increased around the world, and so has the demand for ActiVote - Promethean’s market-leading, student learner response device. ActiVote empowers students to take an active role in their own learning and enables educators to connect with an entire class, while teaching based on the needs of individuals.
Ask a question via ActiVote and watch as the classroom comes alive with participation. Students click to respond and answers are instantly viewed, shared and analyzed on the interactive whiteboard in easy to understand formats such as bar graphs and pie charts. With ActiVote, the answer to the most challenging and important question for a teacher - do they understand the lesson? - is provided by the students.
ActiVote VR
Promethean ActiVote VR is the software version of ActiVote, our market-leading learner response system. It enables any networked classroom computers, laptops and handheld devices to look, act and report like ActiVote electronic devices.
A virtual, interactive ActiVote is displayed on students’ desktops, allowing them to respond to assessment or ad hoc questions directly on their computer using a mouse or keyboard.
Maximize your student technology investments and enhance your ability to track individual student progress with Promethean’s ActiVote VR. Experience all of the formative assessment benefits of ActiVote—virtually!
Focus on assessment for learning has increased around the world. ActiVote VR empowers students to take an active role in their own learning and enables educators to connect with an entire class, while teaching based on the needs of individuals.
ActiVote VR makes votes, quizzes, debates, and the spontaneity that comes with instant assessment and evaluation within reach of any classroom—with or without an interactive whiteboard. Just install the ActiVote VR program on student laptops, computer lab PCs, or even handheld devices, and the right answer is both efficient and cost-effective.
ActivExpression
Students have amazing things on their minds, and very little of it fits the standard multiple choice format. ActivExpression turns question and answer into query, communicate and check comprehension. Full text-capability enables students to respond in full sentences as well as in numbers, symbols, math equations, true/false, Likert scales and more. Self-Paced Learning allows teachers to assign full quizzes of varying difficulty and gives students the opportunity to register answers at their own pace. Teachers can alter the assignment’s length of time to challenge learners.
Question Leveling is used for differentiated instruction. Teachers customize the level of each question to target learner profiles and enable students to venture deeper into the curriculum.
Familiar Form offers students a fun wireless communication tool like those they’re already used to connecting with. Wire-free radio connectivity means ActivExpression works anywhere in the classroom with no line-of-sight needed.
Wonder Wheel interface floats over (and can be used with) most applications for full class participation and engagement throughout the entire lesson.
The ultimate collaborative learning tool, ActivExpression allows students to express themselves through words, numbers, symbols, Likert scales and more. Self-Paced Learning functionality encourages students to work at their own pace and level.
With Self-Paced Learning ActivExpression provides real time, immediate response details for each student per question. This facilitates immediate intervention enabling teachers to support individuals on exactly what they need, or identify individuals who need to be challenged further. With the ability to combine the progression of questions with an increase in difficulty; differentiation is achieved on a per pupil basis, enabling students to work at their own pace and level.
ActivExpression is available in seven languages.