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Overview

The ipal (In-class Polling for All Learners) activity module enables a teacher to design and set polling sessions consisting of multiple choice, true-false, and essay question types. IPAL questions may be used in a quiz and vice versa. Ready to use questions may also be obtained from the ComPADRE database.

The dynamic graphs displayed below the questions can be toggled from spreadsheet view (including student names) to an anonymous display of the answers for the active question -- a histogram for multiple choice questions and a one-line display for essay questions. While polling is on, a question may be answered multiple times until a second question is sent or polling is turned off.

A question may be sent more than once. The spreadsheet view displays the most recent answer submitted at any time.

Polling may be used * To increase student involvement and participation * To gauge student understanding and guide the pace of the class. * To promote greater verbal classroom discussion.


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Features

General Features

  • Start and stop polling with a click of a button.
  • Adding questions (Click on Add/Edit Questions button)
    • From questions already in the question bank
    • From questions that the teacher creates
    • Obtain ready-to-use questions from ComPADRE
    • A generic multiple-choice and generic essay (short answer) question is created automatically. These can be used when the question is given verbally or in another program.
    • A “question” link beside each question which displays what students will see. (In the Add/Select question page, this link is the preview icon )
    • The questions can be sent in any order.
    • Each time the question is sent, it clears out the histogram or response view but not the data in the spreadsheet view.
    • Add “Attendance Questions” if the Moodle attendance module is being used.
  • If a student responds more than once to a “Sent” question, only the last response is displayed.
  • Responses can come from students’ web-enabled devices and/or IPAL Apps in the same session.
  • One click of a button upgrades the attendance record for students submitting the correct attendance code.

Histogram features

  • A dynamic, real-time histogram view (anonymous) of student responses to multiple choice and true/false questions.
  • A “graph” view beside each question which displays a static histogram for responses to that question
  • A link below the dynamic histogram which displays the histogram in a new window/tab
  • An indication “Total Responses” of the number of responding students out of all who have responded to any of the polling questions
  • You can disable the ability of students to submit or change answers by clicking the “Stop Polling” button. When you send a question again, there is a new histogram waiting for answers.
  • When an essay question is sent, the “histogram” view no longer displays a histogram, but displays the text responses.

Responses (text answers to essay questions) features

  • A dynamic, real-time responses view (anonymous) of student responses to “essay” questions.
  • Each student’s answer is on a separate line in the window.
  • A “graph” view beside each essay question which displays a static list of the last text response by each student to that question
  • A link below the dynamic window which displays the responses in a new window/tab
  • An indication “Total Responses” of the number of responding students out of all who have responded to any of the polling questions
  • You can disable the ability of students to submit or change answers by clicking the “Stop Polling” button. When you send an essay question again, there is a new window waiting for responses.
  • When a multiple choice or true/false question is sent, the “response” view no longer displays responses but displays a histogram.

Spreadsheet features

  • A dynamic, real-time spreadsheet view showing student names and all student responses to all questions
  • A link below the dynamic spreadsheet view that displays the spreadsheet view in a new window/tab.
  • You can disable the ability of students to submit or change answers by clicking the “Stop Polling” button. All data is retained and available when you “Start Polling” again. (This can work as a timer.)
  • At any time you can drag over the spreadsheet, copy it, and paste it into a program like Excel.(You may have to use “Paste special – unicode text”)


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