Interested in increasing student engagement during lessons? Use these tools for live audience participation!
On this page, you will links to detailed instructions on THREE available interactive quizzing programmes: Poll Everywhere; Socrative and Kahoot!. The latter two are free and open for public use, so you can start anytime! The version of Poll Everywhere on this website is free for NUS Medicine teaching faculty and simply requires you to register.
Click on each programme name to access detailed Hands-on user guides and video guides to the respective interactive quizzing programmes.
Poll Everywhere is NUSMed’s institution-subscribed quizzing programme. This programme will let you embed live polls directly into your slide presentation in Powerpoint. Questions may be in several formats such as MCQ, short answer and ‘click on image’ etc.
To request an account, please write to Education Technology at medbox77@nus.edu.sg.
2. Socrative
Socrative is a free interactive quizzing progamme which can be used to do live audience quizzing or online quizzing for students to do in their own time. Choose between MCQ, True/False and Short answer questions. A Pro version is available as well.
3. Kahoot!
Kahoot! is a free live quizzing programme in the form of a game. It is exciting and competitive and pits students against each other, either individually or in groups. Quizzing is limited to MCQ format.
Detailed user guides for all 3 programmes are available on the individual instructional pages. Enjoy exploring!