In a traditional teaching environment, if we have a big class with about 100 students or even more, it will be very hard for teachers to manage interactive activities or to hear everyone’s voice, because of the large class size and time limitation. However, if we could use educational technology in the big class teaching circumstance, it would be easier for teachers to conduct interactive activities and enhance students’ engagement.

 

The JazzQuiz activity is designed to be used in face-to-face lessons, with a classroom full of computers/tablets/phones. A teacher can prepare the questions from a question bank and start the quiz during the lesson. All the students can join the session and take the quiz, and the teacher can see the responses immediately.

 

In short, JazzQuiz is a tool for the teacher to manage the live test in a big class. The functions, such as “re-poll” and “jump to”, are also friendly to be used.

 

 

Shaofeng Lu had a big class with about 200 students in one big classroom a few years ago. In order to better interact with the students and enhance engagement, he used JazzQuiz a lot in his teaching sessions. With the help of JazzQuiz, he said, the students’ engagement was highly improved, and as a teacher, he could adjust his teaching method according to the feedback from students during the session.