Maybe you should get them playing on their phones in class then.
I ran a small session this morning with some of our teachers from Accounting and Law about Kahoot – a great free online quiz game.
Learners simply visit http://kahoot.it on their smart phone/tablet/laptop/computer and enter the PIN associated with your quiz game. (Which you are showing through the projector)
They then choose a nickname to use.
Questions appear as your can see in the image above. There is a timer on the side and once everyone has answered (or the timer runs out) the answer is revealed
Points are giving for getting the answer right and also for the speed of answering. At the end there is a final leaderboard and you can download a spreadsheet of results.
This can be a fun and quick way of seeing which areas of content your students have understood and which they might need more support with.
Setting up a Kahoot quiz is also very straight-forward – everyone in the session had a playable quiz game up and running within ten minutes from scratch.
Just go to http://getkahoot.com to set up a free account and get started.
(Yes, looking back, this reads like an ad but I have nothing to do with Kahoot, I just think it’s cool)