Using Moodle's Realtime Quiz

I heard about Moodle plugin Realtime Quiz from a colleague so thought I'd give it a go. To learn how to use it, I viewed a YouTube video made by the creator of the plugin, Davo Smith. I found the video extremely useful because it gave a demonstration of Realtime Quiz  in use and it talked me (teacher) through the process. (Videos are great because they can be replayed and I would not have understood the reason for each of 3 options at one stage.) Also, I learnt about the significance of naming a session and easily being able to test it beforehand.

When I set up the questions, they had to be single option multi-choice, so I needed to re-word some of the questions.

I like the fact that you can choose a "No right answer" where an opinion, not a fact is needed. This was useful for asking people about what topic the felt least confident in using and giving a set of options.

Issues in my session

The issues are to do with the way I set it up, not the plugin. It worked beautifully.

The timing, especially having a wordy question in question 2.  (I could have changed individual questions' times and the default time.)

Answering skills

Apart from the wordy question 2, the lowest response was for question 1... this may be because all of the people in the group had tablets (Android or iPad) that were new to them and some had problems. Also on at least one occasion, someone pressed an option accidentally... Realtime Quiz is very unforgiving and takes the first "press", not allowing anyone to change their mind.

Next time

What I would do next time - yes, there will be a next time! 

• Make question 1 a longer response time.
• Build up to more complex questions.
• I had the opinion questions after the scoring questions and stated on more than one occasion that they were not for scoring. I think that worked. I might try alternatives.