Audience Response System- Smarter solution for effective assessment

Can we imagine a world without technology? Appears worst! In my opinion, technology is a driving force for everything. Without advancement in technology; everything becomes lifeless, boring and so deadly routine. Even if a ‘pinch’ of technology gets added into our mundane routines then it can surely bring a ‘spark’ into our lives.

Similar is the case with education system. Technology plays a vital role in taking education system to the next level. A level; where everything is influenced with digital accessories, Audio-visual elements and numerous other teaching tools. Today’s generation is blessed with technologically upgraded gizmos and gadgets. Students and learners of today have easy access to all kind of ICT and AV solutions including Audience Response Systems, Projectors, Interactive Whiteboards, Touch screens, document cameras, PC, Laptop and lots more.
Amongst these gadgets, Audience Response System is a tremendous teaching solution that has changes the whole face of education system.

What is an Audience Response System?
You must be wondering what an Audience Response System is? An Audience Response System is a battery operated or chargeable handset range by which a presenter asks questions from an audience and then they reply back through their personal handsets. The students' responses are then captured by response system software through the receiver and a report gets generated in the form of table, graph, pie chart etc. Eventually, these reports can be easily displayed on an interactive whiteboards, Touch screens, P.C or on any other projection surface for an audience to see.

Inside the classroom, an Audience Response System can be used by teacher to create new quizzes for students, to prepare mock tests, to introduce real-world scenarios, to identify the weak areas of students and to fetch out their responses and feedbacks.

Genee Response systems are market leading Audience Response Systems which consists of one main teacher handset, and a set of student handsets, one handset receiver and response system software. These are used for carrying out formative and summative assessment in a classroom or lecture room. In other words, it is a highly effective interactive response system that builds up a ‘Two Way Active Communication’ between students and a teacher.

This cutting-edge interactive response system allows yes/no, true/false, numeric and multiple choice answers. Moreover, it can be integrated with PowerPoint to create presentations.

Virtual G-pad is an advance version of Audience Response System which facilitates presenters and teachers to collect share and review real time data from their audience without the requirement of battery operated response systems or clickers. It is interactive response system that has replaced usage of handsets or clickers by an interactive graphic displayed on the screen of any PC, laptop or even handheld platforms (iOS) including iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. Moreover, Virtual G- Pad enables students to give responses to questions asked without being physically present in the classroom.

How Audience Response Voting System helps in building a ‘Two Way Communication’?

An audience response voting system is an effective means of engaging audience in interactive meetings and group discussions; in both corporate and educational environment. In seconds, Real time data can be collected with an audience response voting system. Presenters, educators and trainers can rapidly and efficiently collect responses and replies in the form of real-time data from learners, trainees or participants with these audience response voting systems.

Audience response voting systems includes battery operated and rechargeable handset range which is wisely designed to ‘Communicate’ in an extremely quick, efficient and accurate manner. With an audience response voting system an audience can send out their autonomous and true opinions; free of any ambiguity or biasness. An audience response system helps in building a ‘Two Way Communication’ between an audience and a presenter. In other words, audience response voting systems are considered to be the best means of creating a ‘Communication Loop’ between the both.

An audience response voting system allows an audience to respond to queries raised or a poll initiated in the form of True/False, Yes/No, Open Format and Multiple choices.

Genee’s Audience response system is one such voting system which is exclusively designed to be used in a prompt, effective and a hassle free manner. Genee’s voting handset range is designed ideally for early years and special educational needs students. These streamlined voting systems support complete interoperability and flexibility. These voting systems work excellently with the latest versions of Genee’s Class Comm and CenS Us software. With the help of Genee’s voting systems any presenter or a teacher can easily create presentation data, briefings, lectures or lesson plans, as it is also compatible with PowerPoint.

Genee’s Audience response voting system also allows entry of mathematical symbols as well, making it an ideal gadget for formative and summative assessment. A presenter or a trainer can work with utmost ease and comfort with these simple to load and easy to use Class Comm and CenS Us software packages. Class Comm software works with PowerPoint so there is no need to learn new software as you can use pre prepared PowerPoint slides to save time and effort! Voting system software packages can even compile the reports into an excel spreadsheet so as to save a lot of time in compiling the results.

Virtual G pad is another highly advanced form of voting system which carries all the features of voting system handsets and Class Comm software package without the need of any handset. Virtual G pad voting system can be used on the screen of any PC, mobile phone or laptop which, in turn, enables students to give responses to questions even by being physically nonexistent during a poll or a lecture.