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How Students Answer Questions on Responders and NEO 2
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Short-Answer Questions
On NEO 2, students type their answer and press
enter
.
On Responders, students use common phone
texting techniques to enter their responses. If you
received overlay templates with your Responders
like the one shown to the right, students can place
them over their Responders to help them see
which buttons to push for each character.
As on mobile phones, the very first letter that a
student enters (or the first letter after “.” or “?” or
“!”) is capitalised by default, with the lowercase
letters following (i.e. 2ABCabc). After that, letters
default to the lowercase letters, followed by
uppercase letters (i.e. 2abcABC).
For example, to enter the word “The”, students
would press the
8
button twice for “T”, the
4
button three times to get “h” and the
3
button
three times to get “e”.
Students press
Select
to enter a space or to go to the next character, and they
press
Clear
to delete the previous character. After entering their answer, students
press
Enter
.
The table below shows what buttons students press to get each character.
Responder Key
Characters (in Order) or Function
1
1 , % < > ( ) ? ! " ' : ; $ £ € & @ #
2
2 A B C a b c
3
3 D E F d e f
4
4 G H I g h i
5
5 J K L j k l
6
6 M N O m n o
7
7 P Q R S p q r s
8
8 T U V t u v
9
9 W X Y Z w x y z
0
0
+/-
+ / - * =
.
.
Select
space or next character
Clear
back or delete
Enter
takes you to next question
The True and False
buttons have no
function for short-
answer questions on
Responders. Pressing
Menu
takes you back to the main
menu.
To enter a fraction in
an answer,
enter a “/”
between the
numerator and denominator.
