An Active Learning Platform

• Goal• Learn how to use LectureTools as an instructor (with laptops and tablets)

• Learn how to use LectureTools as a student with laptops, cell phones, and or iPads.

• What do you need?• Must use Safari, Google Chrome 10.0+, FireFox 4+, or IE 9+

• Agenda• Create a course, setup a lecture, add polls and interactive elements

• Learn how to invite students to connect to your course

• Practice using LectureTools to present and display activities with laptops and tablets (iPads)

• View LectureTools analytics

• Use LectureTools as student in demo course

Today’s Goal and Agenda

• Go to my.lecturetools.com

• Sign in with existing instructor account or create a new account and course

LectureTools Login

• Add Course Details

• Copy, paste and send invite link to students

Create a Course and Invite Students

• Setup a lecture

Setup a Lecture and Import Slides

• Import Slides• Insert Title

• Click in between a slide

• Select “insert multiple choice”

Insert Activities

• Add Follow Up Question to identify misconception

• Select multiple correct answers and/or upload an image

• Define correct answers for image quizzes

The Most Pedagogically Sound Questions

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• Add videos from YouTube or you computer

More Question Types and Videos

• Select Correct Answers for Images

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• Publish Lectures for students to see.

Publish Lectures for Students

• Click ‘launch presentation’

Present with an iPad or any other tablet

+ Splashtop Remote Desktop

• Display activities to open polling

• Click results to see responses

• Click answer to show answers

• Click polling to close

Transition slides and poll students.

Question Types

Equations feature added

Enter an equation inside quotes: from http://www.onemathematicalcat.org/MathJaxDocumentation/TeXSyntax.htm

Real-time Feedback: The Dashboard

• Open dashboard during or after lecture

• Address questions during or at the end of class• Answered questions

appear anonymously to all students

• Monitor ‘confusion’

• Receive report after class

Receive Personalized Reports After Class

• Personal reports sent to you via email one hour after class

• View and answer unanswered questions

• View most confusing slides

• View polls and attendance

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Student View

Student View: Questions

Student Names

Track Student Participation: Assess

Case Study: Course Evaluations

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 93.00

3.50

4.00

4.50

5.00W10-F10 F11

“Overall the instructor was an excellent teacher.”

+.5

Scores above 4.5: • 2/9 in 2010 • 7/9 in 2011

The Impact of LectureTools

Engagement Learning Attentiveness0

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LectureTools Control

12%

Source: Use of Laptops in the Classroom: Research and Best Practices, University of Michigan CRLT, 2010

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• Supports all browsers– IE 9+, Firefox 4+, Chrome,

& Safari– No downloads

• Instant product updates• Accessible anywhere,

anytime.

Online, Nothing to install

• Phone support 9-5 EST• Email support 24/7• Webinars, blogs, and best

practices• One-on-one trainings,

anytime.

Full Service Provider