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Clickers or Phones for Polling: Which Should You Use?
Clickers or phones for live polls? What studies say about distraction, what phone bans and Wi-Fi limits mean, and when to use each, or both.
Phone-Free Classrooms and Meetings: Back to Hands Up
Phone-free classrooms are now the rule in 58% of countries. What the research says, and how to keep every voice in the room without opening a screen.
What Is an Audience Response System? How It Works
An audience response system lets a whole room answer at once and shows results live. The parts, the types, what research says and what to check first.
Exit Ticket Ideas: 25 Prompts for Any Lesson
25 exit ticket ideas grouped by what you need to know, how to sort answers in five minutes, and how to run exit tickets when phones are banned.
Kahoot Alternatives for Classrooms: 7 Options (2026)
Kahoot alternatives for teachers compared by what students answer on and what works in phone-free classrooms, plus how to make quiz games teach.
Check for understanding: 12 techniques for any class
12 ways to check for understanding with the whole class at once, what to do with the answers, and how to write questions that reveal misconceptions.
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Formative assessment ideas: 20 quick checks that work
20 formative assessment ideas sorted by Wiliam's five strategies, with the research behind them and how to act on what you find out.
Quiz in PowerPoint: 4 ways to build one, step by step
How to make a quiz in PowerPoint: triggers, Microsoft Forms, phone polling add-ins or clickers. Steps, requirements and how to write questions that teach.
Student Engagement Strategies for Large Lecture Halls
Student engagement strategies that work with 200+ students: peer instruction step by step, question timing, grading and a 50-minute lecture plan.
Classroom Response System Buyer's Guide: 10 Checks
What to check before you buy a classroom response system: answer devices, Wi-Fi, room size, software, anonymity, reports, privacy rules and a pilot plan.
How to Make PowerPoint Interactive: 6 Methods
How to make PowerPoint interactive: clickable menus, Zoom, click-to-reveal answers, and live polls and quizzes with add-ins or clickers. Exact steps.
Clickers in the Classroom: What the Research Shows
What 20 years of research says about clickers in the classroom: where they raise scores, where they don't, and the teaching habits that matter.
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Phone bans in schools: keeping lessons interactive
Phone bans now cover most US states and England. Here is what the research says, and six no-phone ways to get every student answering in class.
Student Response Systems: The Main Types Compared
Student response systems compared: radio clickers, phone apps, scanned paper cards and low-tech options, on Wi-Fi, phones, setup and student data.
How to Use Clickers in the Classroom: Your First Lesson
Clickers for the classroom, step by step: setup, introducing them, writing questions, timing, using the results and common first-lesson mistakes.
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Tips & tricks from the guidebook
- FlyTips for Smooth SessionsTips to help you run more effective sessions.
- FlyQuestion Types for TeachingThe different types of questions people use when teaching or training with OMBEA.
- FlyOMBEA and Peer InstructionHow to apply Peer Instruction techniques in OMBEA Response.
- FlyRunning QuizzesUse OMBEA to run a quiz with your group.
- RunCompetitionsHow to use the special Competition slides within OMBEA Response.
- RunTracking Live ResultsHow to use the Result Monitor in OMBEA Response.
- FlyImproving AccessibilityKey considerations when designing your OMBEA Response slides to be more accessible.
- FlyIdeas for ConferencesThe different things you could do with OMBEA Response at a conference.
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