What is Vevox?
An online polling/survey/quiz engine integrated into Blackboard Learn. This means you can quickly add interactivity such as quizzes, Q&A discussions and feedback surveys into your existing Blackboard modules.
Why use Vevox?
Vevox complements the student experience. According to the UU Student Digital Experience 2023 survey 2023, 77% of students regularly use a smartphone for their learning, nearly a third are engaging in live polling (32%) and nearly half are using online quizzes (49%).
Benefits of Vevox:
Create polls/quizzes, feedback surveys or interactive Q&A quickly and easily
Quickly gauge student understanding and opinions in real time, during lessons
Encourages engagement from less confident students
Enables student participation in class via smartphone
Quickly integrate interactivity into existing Blackboard learning modules
Link marks through to the Blackboard grade centre
Generate topical questions with the Beta AI quiz generator
No student Log-in
Getting started with Vevox - sessions
Suggested uses of Vevox
At the start of the class:
Live word cloud polls can be to set expectations, gauge knowledge, act as ice breakers and establish a culture of participation for the class e.g.
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During Class:
Knowledge check polls allow you to assess student understanding:
Q&A allow students to asks questions anonymously during class:
End of class:
Quizzes can be used to gauge understanding and reinforce knowledge
Gather student feedback in a survey:
After class
Self-paced quiz links through to the grade centre
Case studies from other Universities
Real-time polling to help corral university-learners’ wandering minds - University of New South Wales
Vevox for in-class engagement - Digital Learning University of Southampton
Ready player one: using Vevox to elicit student participation in lectures
Educational Vevox Case Studies from universities in UK and Ireland
Vevox guides
Getting started with Vevox - sessions
Creating Live Wordcloud Polls with Vevox
Creating a live multiple-choice quiz with Vevox
Creating a self-paced student feedback survey from Vevox sample