Vevox

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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

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 Gradebook

 Case studies from other Universities

• Using Vevox for student engagement at University of Oxford

• 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

 Using Vevox