Polling software such as PollEverywhere, Kahoot, and Quizlet are increasingly common ways to get targeted feedback during classes for specific questions.
However, the frequency of this feedback may be too low. For instance:
- Did students understand the slides you just went through? (you can't continually have polls to test every single concept!)
- Do they think you're suddenly speaking too fast? (as opposed to polling for this once during a class)
- Do they have a question? (but don't want to interrupt your flow?)
Core idea: Instructors and students may need a more real-time way of receiving and giving feedback on the current class.
ClassEQ aims to be a system for genuine real-time classroom feedback that is not structured around polls / quizzes / etc.
It should be used to augment the existing targeted feedback tools mentioned above.
- Students should be able to join a "session" based on an ID or link name
- Once joined, they should be presented with an interface with a minimal number of buttons that give live feedback to the presenter
- Such buttons could be grouped as:
- Speed: OK (default) / Too fast / Too slow
- Understanding: OK (default) / Do not understand recent concept
- Question: No question (default) / Have a question
- Should be able to set up a session
- Should have an interface during the talk (a window) to view the current live status of the students
- React + Websockets frontend for students
- React + Websockets frontend for instructors
- Websockets backend to link the two together via unique link codes / names.