Use OptionPower to add interactive
questions to PowerPoint presentations.
Pose an interactive question. Students
respond with wireless keypads.
OptionPower immediately tabulates and
displays the results.
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OptionFinder IQ, our latest keypad for
interactive classrooms!
Sample Student Report
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Sample Instructor Report
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Turn your classroom into a dynamic, interactive learning environment where students pay close attention and show dramatic improvement in learning. The OptionPower® System is an interactive student response system that combines the unique capabilities of PowerPoint® with wireless response keypads.
As you present your PowerPoint-based lectures, you can pose multiple-choice interactive quiz or test questions authored in
OptionPower software, an easy-to-use add-in for PowerPoint. Students respond to each question with wireless, handheld OptionFinder®
keypads. Results are instantly tabulated and a graph can be optionally displayed showing the number or percentage of students who selected each choice.
Easy-to-use and easy to setup, this combination of tools will turn your classroom into a state-of-the-art learning environment. Click on benefits outlined below to learn how OptionPower helps you achieve some very powerful benefits:
Improve Student Attentiveness and Retention
OptionPower enhances peer interaction and harnesses all the proven concepts of adult learning. By discussing the results after each interactive question, students share opinions and learn from the practical experience of others. As participants anticipate the next question, interest is stimulated and they retain more.
Studies show that interactivity improves attentiveness as much as 88% and retention as much as 27%. Because students retain more, they show dramatic increases in test scores.
Click here to review studies about the effectiveness of interactivity in classroom learning.
Automate Quizzes and Tests
You can save a great deal of grading time by using the OptionPower system to automate your quizzes and tests. Individuals can be assigned a keypad and OptionPower records their responses. After each class, students can be automatically graded. OptionPower also has pre-formatted Excel reports, including feedback reports for individual students and instructor reports with results for every student in your class.
Energize Class Discussions
Create a classroom filled with interaction and discussion by using OptionPower to help students explore complex, thought-provoking topics. As you display the distribution of responses after each interactive question or series of questions, you can engage the class in meaningful discussions about their underlying beliefs.
For more in-depth studies, you can capture “demographic” information about your students and use it to show how different groups respond to questions. For example, a political science professor may use OptionPower to pose a multiple-choice question about a controversial topic. After students enter a choice on their keypads, you can show the class response by their political affiliation (see image below). By highlighting and discussing these differences in opinion, each person in the class will learn from the knowledge and experience of their peers.
Explore how various sub-groups respond to thought-provoking questions
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Take Attendance
Finally, OptionPower lets you spend less time worrying about taking and tracking attendance. Many of our keypad systems give students the ability to
"log-in" during class. Using their keypad, students enter a pre-assigned number that is captured in our class roster tool. This roster serves as your class roll and can be exported to a pre-formatted Excel report.
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