We know that regularly asking “instant” questions in class is a sure-fire way of lifting and sustaining engagement. Now, using Xorro-Q, assessing instant questions has become easy – even in class. Students’ responses to instant questions can be automatically rewarded: either by assessing them for correctness or by recognising the contributor through participation points.
One of the compromises in automatically assessed numeric (and text) response questions is that they demand exact responses from participants. For example, in asking a group of participants “Who was the leader of Nazi Germany?” – we might demand “Adolf Hitler” as the “correct” answer, but we will in fact receive variations such as “Hitler”, “AdolfHitler”, […]
Xorro News Archive
- “E-Learning Tools to Facilitate Instruction of a Large Enrollment Structural Engineering Course”A significant challenge in teaching large civil engineering courses is engaging and providing feedback to students in a meaningful and timely manner. This paper presents a solution that uses e-learnin...
Peer Assessment now available through Xorro-Q for team based learning and project workXorro-Q has released a new Peer Assessment module which helps educators and instructors use peer feedback to support team-based learning and improve group projects and student team outcomes....- Reporting Frequency (Text and Numeric questions)When asking an "open" question such as a text response or numeric response question, instant assessment of responses can pose challenges in a live setting. Xorro-Q collates respondents' use of key "te...
New Gradebook simplifies course management in Xorro-QXorro has added a new course summary tool, “Gradebook”, to its range of engagement reports for facilitators. Gradebook provides the ability to view summary data for any course (group), for...
Making it clearer with Prefixes & SuffixesThrough the first semester of 2017 facilitators started using the prefix and suffix functionality for numeric questions (released March 2017). The use of prefixes and suffixes on numeric questions gre...
Student Response Systems enable student-centered teachingRecently we followed up with Dr Michael Rehm from University of Auckland’s Business School, on how he uses student response systems such as Xorro Q in his courses. According to Michael, the student r...
New Xorro Workbook 2.2 Supports PDF ImportThis week Xorro releases version 2.2 of its Workbook whiteboarding software, co-branded Alphateach in the UK and Europe. The new version includes features such as PDF import, enhanced design of the ru...
Interns Prepare Course Content in Xorro-QThis summer, the University of Auckland Department of Civil Engineering has supplied eight student interns to work with Xorro on developing a targeted learning solution. These interns have been worki...
Hotspots and Heatmap VisualisationsA few weeks back, the Xorro team released heat map visualisation for Xorro-Q's hotspot questions. This enables a much clearer interpretation of the many thousands of data points contributed by an audi...- New label questions add flexibility and speedIn September Xorro quietly released Label questions for the Xorro-Q audience assessment platform. Label questions provide a flexible and fast assessment tool suited to any topic....
- Xorro Workbook 2 arrives: Get it here!This week, after months of beta testing and progressive improvements of Workbook 2, Xorro finally released this latest version (2.0) of the powerful whiteboarding software Workbook (alternately brande...
Assessing Instant Questions lifts in-class engagementWe know that regularly asking "instant" questions in class is a sure-fire way of lifting and sustaining engagement. Now, using Xorro-Q, assessing instant questions has become easy - even in class. Stu...
Q’s Numeric and Text Questions become TolerantOne of the compromises in automatically assessed numeric (and text) response questions is that they demand exact responses from participants. For example, in asking a group of participants “Who...
Free access to Xorro-QFrom 1 January 2015, all users - both facilitators and participants - have full access to Xorro-Q for free....
Xorro offers Free Algebra Question BanksWe have created and uploaded 2800 linear equations problems (in five levels of difficulty) and 2095 problems around factorising and expanding quadratic equations (in 7 levels of difficulty). These ful...
Instant Hotspots sharpen assessment and engagementJust as you'd expect from a Xorro "instant hotspot" question, no preparation is required whatsoever. When the relevant image is on display - perhaps in a slide show, or maybe within a paused video - t...- Xorro-Q adds free learning activities to BYOD classrooms & lecture theatersXorro has released free access for school educators to its gamification and real-time assessment solution, Xorro-Q....
Xorro wins research grant linking audience engagement to learning outcomesFollowing the debut in mid 2014 of Xorro's faculty-wide engagement dashboards, the kiwi edtech innovator has been awarded a $90,000 grant......- Audiences build instant wordcloudsXorro-Q's wordcloud algorithm filters for the most relevant content, and scales this to reflect frequency of use within the audience. Words are then assessed for size and fit, and positioned dynamical...
- Social leverage enhances in-class participationWe make it easy, fun and completely risk-free to answer a question. Using this, Facilitators can easily motivate their audience to get involved....
Text Response Scores HighlyFollowing hard on the heels of the April release of scored numeric response questions, Xorro has released a simple scoring template for its text response question type. Scoring is achieved by compari...
More Ticks for Hotspot Questionswe've added a new multi-select hotspot question type....- Dashboard for Xorro-Q Provides Insight to Faculty ManagersXorro's Institution Dashboard (released July) provides an instant view on the participant experience over multiple sessions and across multiple facilitators in an institution....
- New to Q: New Question Types & AssessmentsText response questions now allow scoring ................. multi-select hotspot image questions...........................bulk editing tool for Q-Bank....
Using Powerpoint with your IWBUse ink to annotate into your slides, when your presentation is in slide show mode....
Calibrating your 2Touch Interactive WhiteboardCalibrating your 2Touch IWB is sooooo easy – and you don’t need any special software! Just have your computer connected through to the USB and the projected image displayed on the IWB....
- 2Touch Workbook 1.8 releaseOverview of whats new in Workbook 1.8 ...
- Using the Transcribe tool for Windows 7...
- Setting up your On-screen Keyboard (in Windows)...
- Care and Maintenance of your 2Touch IWB...
Recent News
- “E-Learning Tools to Facilitate Instruction of a Large Enrollment Structural Engineering Course”A significant challenge in teaching large civil engineering courses is engaging and providing feedba...
Peer Assessment now available through Xorro-Q for team based learning and project workXorro-Q has released a new Peer Assessment module which helps educators and instructors use peer fee...- Reporting Frequency (Text and Numeric questions)When asking an "open" question such as a text response or numeric response question, instant assessm...
New Gradebook simplifies course management in Xorro-QXorro has added a new course summary tool, “Gradebook”, to its range of engagement repor...
Making it clearer with Prefixes & SuffixesThrough the first semester of 2017 facilitators started using the prefix and suffix functionality fo...
