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Using the Teacher-Paced Session
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Starting a Session for Verbal Questions
5.
On the next panel, leave
Include Short Answer Questions
ticked if you want
to use short answer questions on the assignment. Then, click
Next
. (Some
Responders may not be compatible with short answer questions; see
page 14.)
6.
Choose whether you want the assignment to be scored and choose the
responder type.
Click
Yes
or
No
to choose whether the assignment will be scored. If you
choose
No
, you can tick the first box
C
if you want to allow an anonymous
login, which means students do not need to identify themselves to participate.
You can tick the second box
D
if you want to use this session for a survey,
voting or polling instead of an assignment; if you tick this box, the questions
have no correct answer.
Click one of the responder type options
E
to choose how students will enter
their responses: using either a Responder or a NEO 2 (if you choose
Responder), or using a NEO 2 only.
Both Responder and NEO 2 sessions allow you to ask multiple-choice,
true/false, yes/no, numeric-response and short-answer questions.
(Responders need firmware version 3.x or higher if students will be answering
short-answer questions; see page 14.)
When you are ready to continue, click
Next
.
7.
If you chose to
score the
assignment, the
next screen will ask
you to enter the
assignment details.
Enter the title,
choose a subject
and enter the
number of points to
award for each
item. Click the
Category
drop-
down list to choose
whether the session is for in-class work, a test, a quiz or extra credit.
The Responder
types available
depend on the
Devices preference.
For
example, NEO 2 will not be an
option for sessions unless you
open the Devices preference
and tick NEO 2. For more
information, see page 136.
C
D
E
You can add
assignment
categories
using the
Categories preference; see
page 136.
