TurningPoint interactive polling software allows you to interact with learners and identify their understanding, but that’s just touching the surface of what it can do. Here are some great tips for thinking outside the box to get the most out of the technology.

10. Ice breaker
Create and use TurningPoint slides to emphasise a theme, incident or character important to the day’s session. Include students in the discussion of the results.

9. Practice makes perfect
Ask a question, allow for peer discussion and then re-ask the same question. Display results using the comparative slide function.

8. Word clouds
Generate word clouds of the students short answer responses for a more visual representation of results.

7. Friendly wager
Encourage team competitions and post participant or team leader boards.

6. Using teamwork
Add group demographics to track group achievement levels.

5. Long distance works
No location is too far or remote. Involve many locations at the same time with TurningPoint’s mobile polling solution. This also allows you to use the software in a flipped classroom scenario.

4. On the fly
Use TurningPoint’s Anywhere Polling for “agile instruction” by inserting questions during an active session.

3. Formula for success
Conduct research experiments and view statistics including mean, median, standard deviation and variance.

2. Not a trick question
Ask fill-in-the-blank questions to have learners submit unclear terms and topics.

1. Talk data to me
Track the success of student learning using TurningPoint to collect data.