xorroq Archives » Xorro Solutions https://new.xorro.com/posts/tag/xorroq/ Engage & Involve your Audience Thu, 05 Apr 2018 09:47:54 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.7 https://i0.wp.com/new.xorro.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/cropped-Xorro-X-Logo-1.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 xorroq Archives » Xorro Solutions https://new.xorro.com/posts/tag/xorroq/ 32 32 163441511 Student Response Systems enable student-centered teaching https://new.xorro.com/posts/student-response-systems-enable-student-centered-teaching/ Wed, 17 Feb 2016 05:17:41 +0000 http://wp.xorro.com/?p=5336 Recently we followed up with Dr Michael Rehm from University of Auckland’s  Business School, on how he uses student response […]

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]]> 5336 Interns Prepare Course Content in Xorro-Q https://new.xorro.com/posts/interns-prepare-course-content-in-xorro-q/ Wed, 27 Jan 2016 05:01:06 +0000 http://wp.xorro.com/?p=5330 This summer, the University of Auckland Department of Civil Engineering has supplied eight student interns to work with Xorro on developing […]

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]]> 5330 Hotspots and Heatmap Visualisations https://new.xorro.com/posts/hotspots-and-heatmaps/ Wed, 28 Oct 2015 04:49:26 +0000 http://wp.xorro.com/?p=5327 A few weeks back, the Xorro team released heat map visualisation for Xorro-Q's hotspot questions. This enables a much clearer interpretation of the many thousands of data points contributed by an audience to a live hot spot question.

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]]> 5327 New label questions add flexibility and speed https://new.xorro.com/posts/new-label-questions-add-flexibility-and-speed-2/ Thu, 15 Oct 2015 04:44:00 +0000 http://wp.xorro.com/?p=5323 In September Xorro quietly released Label questions for the Xorro-Q audience assessment platform. Label questions provide a flexible and fast assessment tool suited to any topic.

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]]> 5323 Assessing Instant Questions lifts in-class engagement https://new.xorro.com/posts/assessing-instant-questions-lifts-in-class-engagement/ Mon, 10 Aug 2015 05:36:18 +0000 http://wp.xorro.com/?p=5316 We know that regularly asking "instant" questions in class is a sure-fire way of lifting and sustaining engagement. Now, using Xorro-Q, assessing instant questions has become easy - even in class. Students' responses to instant questions can be automatically rewarded: either by assessing them for correctness or by recognising the contributor through participation points.

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]]> 5316 Q’s Numeric and Text Questions become Tolerant https://new.xorro.com/posts/qs-numeric-and-text-questions-become-tolerant/ Wed, 20 May 2015 04:54:58 +0000 http://wp.xorro.com/?p=5312 One of the compromises in automatically assessed numeric (and text) response questions is that they demand exact responses from participants.  For […]

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]]> 5312 Free access to Xorro-Q https://new.xorro.com/posts/xorro-free-access/ Sun, 22 Feb 2015 03:54:04 +0000 http://wp.xorro.com/?p=5310 From 1 January 2015, all users - both facilitators and participants - have full access to Xorro-Q for free.

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]]> 5310 Xorro offers Free Algebra Question Banks https://new.xorro.com/posts/xorro-offers-free-algebra-question-banks/ Sat, 21 Feb 2015 03:23:24 +0000 http://wp.xorro.com/?p=5306 We have created and uploaded 2800 linear equations problems (in five levels of difficulty) and 2095 problems around factorising and expanding quadratic equations (in 7 levels of difficulty). These fully assessed resources are shared globally in your Q-Bank. It’s free for any educator to use. They make great quiz or practice tools for any student!

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