What is Turning?
TurningPoint from Turning allows instructors to ask participants interactive questions, more commonly known as “clicker questions”, in live sessions. These questions serve a wide variety of functions ranging from tracking attendance and increasing engagement to delivering quizzes, surveys and exams. It allows you to collect responses, feedback and choices from students answering on their mobile devices or a web browser.
Why use it?
Asking questions can promote increased interaction and student engagement, while also allowing you to check understanding of concepts during a class.
How do I ask an interactive question?
There are several ways you can use TurningPoint to ask questions, depending on how you teach.
An instructor may create TurningPoint questions within Powerpoint and have then the questions display as part of a Powerpoint slideshow presentation during a lecture or class. Find out more here.
An instructor might use Anywhere Polling to quickly verbally poll a question in a live session, or create pre-authored questions, within the Anywhere Polling
Turning also have a product called Turning Pro, in addition to the desktop options above. You can access it via your online Turning account. From this web site you can set up and run a polling activity.
Further details on how to use this web app can be found here
How can students respond?
Students can respond using the Turning app on a phone, tablet, or accessing the weblink http://ttpoll.eu on any web browser.
Students respond by entering their answer on their individual device. These answers are gathered and compiled into a chart. This chart can be instantly displayed on screen, along with the correct answer choice. This provides both student and instructor with valuable real time feedback.
Additional Resources
Turning also run regular webinars. See https://www.turning.com/webinar to sign up to participate.
Next steps
Read on to find out how you can get setup with using Turning at NUI Galway