Fun and engaging attendance questions for students

One of the questions we are commonly asked is how to write fun and engaging attendance questions for students. Before we go any further, any question can be used as an attendance question if it gets your students thinking! Here is a list of our favorite types of attendance questions to ask your students. Play…

Four uses of Echo360Point student affairs professionals need to know

Run effective orientation programs Orientation programs are often the first comprehensive opportunity for students to interact with the university campus and community. However, student affairs personnel are challenged to make these long, information-heavy sessions engaging learning experiences. The use of interactive polling questions during orientation can serve to: Spur interactive discussions Allow staff to more…

Four ways to support Team-Based Learning with Echo360Point

Research has shown time and again that active learning enhances the learning process and bolsters student engagement. The big question is how to smoothly integrate these educational theories into the classroom – especially large classrooms – without overburdening instructors. Team-Based Learning is one instructional method designed to address this challenge. With TBL, instruction is based…

Five instructional strategies to increase student success

Persistence. Retention. Student Success. Colleges and universities dedicate committees, task forces and even entire departments to improving these measures in response to nation-wide calls for improved graduation rates. Even more important, these factors are fundamental to fulfilling the promise of a college education for the millions of students that enroll each year. Despite all of…

Express yourself: Make debates count

It would be fair to say that my days of passionate debating are behind me, but learning to challenge opinions and create positive change is an invaluable life skill.