A Classroom Response System That Fits Your Budget

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Classroom response systems (CRS) or clickers have been attempting to enter the mainstream of educational technology for the past decade. While they are an excellent way to boost student interaction and provide almost instant feedback to the instructor, hardware costs and requirements have been the greatest impediment to its widespread implementation. Now there is a more affordable alternative that works in a similar way.

BooRoo is a website that lets anyone to create free online polls easily. As long as Internet is available in the classroom, students can participate in the poll created by the teacher. Unlike clickers, web polls do not require any special hardware. But just like clickers, the results are tallied automatically and immediately.

With BooRoo, the live results can be viewed and shared through different ways:

" On BooRoo.com. Log in to your account to see a list of your polls, then select the one you want to display on your computer in the classroom for all to see.

" Export data for offline analysis. See when each response was received by viewing detailed poll results. Data can be downloaded as CSV files which can be opened in any spreadsheet program such as Microsoft Excel, Apple Numbers, or Google Spreadsheets.

" Publish to a blog or website. Quickly publish the poll results in web pages, online forums, blog posts, conference websites, digital signage, courseware, or interactive art displays "" practically anything that works in a web browser.

When BooRoo receives a response, the results are automatically updated, making it a really convenient tool for classroom interaction and feedback.

BooRoo"s online polls are fully customizable. The style, colors, and font sizes can be edited to match the look and feel of your presentation. The best part is, you don"t have to install anything. All you need is a BooRoo account and you can start making your own polls.

Try BooRoo today. Sign up for a free plan to create unlimited polls and receive unlimited responses. If you need to ask more than twenty questions per poll, you can upgrade to a larger plan for a month and downgrade back to free afterwards.


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