Plickers

Features

Plickers is a formative assessment tool where teachers use printable paper cards (Plickers) with unique QR codes to collect real-time feedback from students. It allows for quick multiple-choice polling, grading, and tracking of student responses using a single device's camera. Results are instantly displayed and saved for later analysis, making it efficient for classroom engagement and assessment.

Use

The Plickers application can be used both by primary class teachers and teachers who teach subjects other than English. Teaching staff benefit from the support of those who manage this application, through the "Help" service, where they can address questions and concerns, to which answers are provided in a very short time.

Description of the use in class

Plickers app – an interactive tool and also a versatile way to create grid and true/false tests for primary students. The application has an extremely friendly interface, precisely because of the simplicity and ease with which even a less experienced teacher can create a class (by entering the names of the students), a test. The teacher has the possibility to formulate his questions, the number of answers, the type of answers, he can add images based on which he will formulate the questions. Students do not need written work, because the application allows the projection (with the help of a video projector) of the questions and the answer choices, they answer only by picking up a card (unique in shape and personalized) that is offered for free by the Plickers application.

age

8-9 years of age

Learning outcomes

Students can also receive the individual sheet with the given answers, so that self-assessment and self-correction can be carried out, which can be done directly in the classroom.

Reviews / Recommendations

A very useful application, which makes it easier and helps you manage your activity, fascinating and easy to use for both teachers and students.

Example of the tool as a good practice

The application provides alternative solutions close to the classical teaching method.

Inclusion

From personal experience, using this testing method with 8-9th graders, I realised student evaluations are no longer a stress issue, testing time has decreased, self-evaluation has become a much better tool to be managed in class and student level, the objectivity of the grading is indisputable, the students' distributive attention has developed (students following the question, the answer options, using the answer card, monitoring whether the answer was recorded online.