Plickers overview

Plickers

Using Plickers in your classroom

Using in your classroom

A free, accessible and engaging educational assessment tool

What is Plickers?

Let's explore Plickers

The Plickers platform has been designed with accessibility as a top priority, meaning it's perfect for the vast majority of educational settings. Students answer questions by holding up unique cards, so there's no need for student devices or accounts, and sessions can even be taken offline if no internet connection is available. As the teacher, you will have access to a free Plickers account. These are designed for individual use, which will allow you to create a bespoke online environment that's tailored to your own unique teaching schedule.

Assess anytime!

How does Plickers work?

How does Plickers work?

There are three main stages to using Plickers:

Prepare classes and questions

Prepare classes and questions

Scan answers

Review results

Review results

Scan answers

The three main stages of Plickers

Three main stages

Before a session Prepare Classes and questions

In the classroom Play questions and scan student cards

After class Store and review student results

During set-up, teachers use plickers.com for two main tasks:

• Add student rosters to Plickers Classes, and assign each student a card number
• Put together a library of multiple-choice questions (in the form of Sets) to play to their students

During class, Plickers teachers display content to their students through the Now Playing feature of plickers.com. Students will provide their answers by holding up their Plickers cards and orientating them in a certain way. The Plickers mobile app is then used to scan the cards to collect student answers, and to control the session by revealing correct choices and moving through questions within a Set.

When a Plickers session is complete, student reports and scoresheets are provided at plickers.com, which can be used to keep track of individual and collective performance over time. It's even possible to download results for further analysis.

Setup

What do I need?

There are three components that make up Plickers.

Your laptop/computer to use Plickers on the web (at plickers.com)

A mobile device to use the Plickers app

and Plickers cards

The three main stages of Plickers

Students are each assigned a card number

and will hold up their specific card to answer your questions. The scanner detects the orientation of the bar code on the card, determines the intended answer choice, and attributes it to the student linked to that card.

Your laptop/computer is the central hub

of the platform and is best used via a laptop or computer. As a teacher, it's where you'll add your classes, write (or search for) questions, and keep track of student results over time.

The main job of the mobile app

is to scan cards in the classroom (so logging student answers). You can also use it to play your content and display instant results, so we like to think of it as the remote control for your Plickers session.

Plickers demonstration

LET'S TRY Plickers

Plickers

Plickers demonstration

1. Watch the screen
2. Grab your plicker card
3. Hold up the correct side to answer the question

In your classroom

How do I get started?

On your laptop/computer, sign up for a free account at www.plickers.com/signup

Add your Classes and students

Create content by building Sets of questions

Print or purchase your Plickers cards

Download the Plickers mobile app

And that's it! For more details, you can move on to our next articles, or if you're already set up and ready for class, feel free to check out Using Plickers in your classroom.

Go get started!

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