Tips to Improve the Effectiveness of Computerized Audience Response Systems

Presented By: Meridia Interactive Solutions

Here are some tips to make the use of these response systems more fluid and efficient.

1. Keep Questions Short and Simple

2. Maintain a Maximum of Five Answer Options

3. Simple Questions Work Best

4.Discussion Reinforces Response System Usage

5 Clear Instructions

6. Encourage Active Discussions Alongside Responses

1.Keep Questions Short and Simple

• The biggest challenge with response systems is their relatively limited capacity for audience input.

• This means that questions that are focused with shorter answers often have the best legibility, which in turn produces the best results with any given audience.

2. Maintain a Maximum of Five Answer Options

• Too many answer choices can have just as much of a negative effect as complicated questions.

• Allow for no more than five total answer choices of any given question.

• This will ensure that audience members promptly choose an answer to ensure that the response systems continues to run smoothly.

3. Simple Questions Work Best

• Questions should be simple.

• Simple questions give best results.

• Shorter questions keep the session enjoyable for audience members.

• Simple questions keep the attention of audience members better.

4. Discussion Reinforces Response System Usage

• Learning is a complex process.

• After acquiring information, individuals often need to discuss .

• Discussion is most effective factor for truly understand a new topic.

• Allotting for discussion time reinforces any learning that happens.

5 Clear Instructions

• Instructing the audience with clear directions is a vital part of ensuring that computerized audience response systems can be leveraged to their full potential.

• Computerized audience response systems encourage audience members to respond due to their relatively anonymous nature.

6. Encourage Active Discussions Alongside Responses

• The value of active discussions cannot be overstated.

• They reinforce the knowledge that audience members acquire, which in turn allows them to better utilize the knowledge they acquire.

• It also gives audience members a significantly better reason to pay attention during lectures.

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