We all (I hope) know how important feedback is to students as part of their learning. Often though the people who understand this least are the students themselves and they can find it easy to overlook or disregard feedback as soon as they have seen their grade.
Qwiqr seems like a very good solution to that problem and is a great way to get students to take notice and follow up on feedback.
How it works
Qwiqr uses QR codes that you can attach to homework that provide digital feedback for students that they can access through their phone.
This feedback can be written, audio recorded or can come in the form of a web link or video. Students just scan the code with their phone and they’ll instantly be able to access your feedback. This is an ideal system for language learning as the audio element enables you to provide models of pronunciation, target language and new vocabulary that students can listen to repeatedly.
Using Qwiqr you can even make feedback an interactive process and students can record a reply to your message and send it back to you.
Qwiqr is very safe for students, as only someone with the QR code can access the recordings.
To create your Qwiqr QR codes you simply print and select the number of QR code stickers you want and then just print them off (using sticky paper will work best).
Then when you want to give some feedback, you scan the code with any scanner and then record and save your message. This will store the message on the Qwiqr server. Then you just give students the same QR code and they can scan it and access their feedback and review it at any time.
Qwiqr doesn’t require that students download a specific app and work in the browser with any QR code scanner.
This is a really great way to get your students really engaging with their feedback and to create a dialogue around their work so that they can check their understanding of anything they got wrong or still need to know.
Pricing
On the free account you can send audio, image, text or links as feedback and the feedback stays on the server for up to 3 months.
If you like it and find it works with your students you can upgrade to premium for just £1.50 a month (that’s about $2) and this will enable you to send video feedback and your students will be able to reply and your feedback will be editable, reusable and on the server forever.
Personally, I think this is a great way to get students to really take notice and engage with their feedback. If you have a collection of code stickers ready in the classroom you could also be recording individual feedback for students while you monitor their speaking activities or you could record an overall summary for the end of the lesson that all students could scan.
Qwiqr isn’t limited to being used only for feedback though. These are some other suggestions.
You can find links to many more tools like this and activities for the digital classroom in my ebooks at: https://payhip.com/peacheypublications
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Qwiqr seems like a very good solution to that problem and is a great way to get students to take notice and follow up on feedback.
How it works
Qwiqr uses QR codes that you can attach to homework that provide digital feedback for students that they can access through their phone.
This feedback can be written, audio recorded or can come in the form of a web link or video. Students just scan the code with their phone and they’ll instantly be able to access your feedback. This is an ideal system for language learning as the audio element enables you to provide models of pronunciation, target language and new vocabulary that students can listen to repeatedly.
Using Qwiqr you can even make feedback an interactive process and students can record a reply to your message and send it back to you.
Qwiqr is very safe for students, as only someone with the QR code can access the recordings.
To create your Qwiqr QR codes you simply print and select the number of QR code stickers you want and then just print them off (using sticky paper will work best).
Qwiqr doesn’t require that students download a specific app and work in the browser with any QR code scanner.
This is a really great way to get your students really engaging with their feedback and to create a dialogue around their work so that they can check their understanding of anything they got wrong or still need to know.
Pricing
On the free account you can send audio, image, text or links as feedback and the feedback stays on the server for up to 3 months.
If you like it and find it works with your students you can upgrade to premium for just £1.50 a month (that’s about $2) and this will enable you to send video feedback and your students will be able to reply and your feedback will be editable, reusable and on the server forever.
Personally, I think this is a great way to get students to really take notice and engage with their feedback. If you have a collection of code stickers ready in the classroom you could also be recording individual feedback for students while you monitor their speaking activities or you could record an overall summary for the end of the lesson that all students could scan.
Qwiqr isn’t limited to being used only for feedback though. These are some other suggestions.
- Record video of pupils talking about their work and put the QR next to the work on display boards.
- Record spoken conversations that students can listen to at home.
- Create treasure hunts using images and videos that give clues for students to follow.
- Create ‘praise cards’ and let students take them home to play for parents
You can find links to many more tools like this and activities for the digital classroom in my ebooks at: https://payhip.com/peacheypublications
Check Out My Books:
- Hacking Creativity
- 10 Short Image Lessons
- 10 Lessons in Digital Literacy
- Digital Video
- Thinking Critically through Digital Media
Best
Nik Peachey
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