Now you no longer have to wonder if students understand what you’ve taught them. The Senteo interactive response system is designed to enhance interactive teaching and learning. With it, you display or speak prepared or ad hoc questions, students anonymously key in answers with their remote, and responses are tallied, then, if desired, displayed immediately on a projection screen or interactive whiteboard.
To assess student understanding, you can use a variety of question types, including true or false, multiple choice, numeric response and more-than-one-right-answer. Decimals, fractions and negative numbers can also be incorporated into questions and answers.
Senteo allows frequent questioning and feedback, which engages students more actively in the material being studied. When the data is used to provide relevant in-class feedback, and to adjust instruction according to identified needs, then large gains in student understanding can be achieved. Students send their responses privately, so they are free to answer without feeling judged by peers.
SMART Notebook software is used to create the questions so you can embed pictures, sound, video and Flash files from the Gallery.
Each library on campus will have a Senteo system available for checkout. If you are interested in learning more, email Jen Uhl.
Getting Started with the Senteo Interactive Response System
Designing an assessment with the Senteo Interactive Response System and SMART Notebook software
Research on how to use clickers by the University of Colorado and The University of British Columbia
