The top 50 word cloud questions for brainstorming & icebreakers

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To help you get started, we've compiled a list of the top 50 word cloud questions for crowdsourci...

55 word cloud poll examples perfect for classes

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Read this article to discover 50+ of the best live word cloud questions that can be used in your ...

What is educational software? (And why you should be utilising it!)

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If you're a lecturer, there’s no doubt that it can be terribly difficult to keep your students en...

What is active learning and how to implement it

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Active learning is a teaching method that involves student participation in the learning process....

Introducing the Vevox Community

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The Vevox User Community is here! The community is a user led space for sharing ideas, tips, tric...

3 simple ways to increase classroom engagement

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Lecturers have many responsibilities, but their most important one is to engage their students in...

8 top-rated tools for a Learning Technologist's tech stack

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It’s 2023 and hybrid/blended learning isn’t going anywhere. There's an abundance of tools availab...

3 learning technology trends for 2023

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The Vevox team attended two key education events in 2022. Here are the 3 key trends in learning t...

3 reasons you must try a student response system this year

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Through conversations with education customers, digital learning experts and our own research we'...

Vevox Recognised As Top Meeting Software & Frontrunner in 2022

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Vevox is proud to announce its recognition as a Top Meeting Software by Software Advice in its 20...

5 top-tips from University educators on enhancing student engagement

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At the November 2021 Global Insights EdTech Conference, a panel of University educators discussed...

Are Lecturers and Students Ready for Hybrid Classes?

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We explore some of the focal points of the conversations we’re having with educators, how institu...

5 reasons to use Vevox in class

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Dr Michael Richter, a Vevox user at Liverpool John Moore’s University since 2017, shares 5 of the...

Improving student satisfaction and inclusion at the University of Chester

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Read this customer story with Christina Stanley - Senior Lecturer and Senior University Teaching ...

5 ways customers in Education are using Vevox for virtual classes

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Through speaking to educators and lecturers, I thought I’d share some of the ways we’ve seen peop...

12 things Star Wars can teach your business...

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The Saga Concludes. Updated following the Rise of Skywalker here's how reflecting on the Star War...

News release: Vevox Education response to COVID-19  

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Understanding that in these uncertain times, our education customers are looking at ways to take ...

Vevox Announces Partnership with Canvas

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Vevox, the popular personal response system for in class polling and Q&A is now available through...

ALT Conference 2019: highlights and most liked tweets…

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The Vevox team thoroughly enjoyed another year of being the audience engagement partner and spons...

Guest Blog - Three ways to create an engaging and effective learning experience

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Guest Blog - University of Southampton. In this blog, student intern Simone Andorlini from the Un...

6 questioning tactics to use in your next presentation that maximise audience engagement

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There's no excuses for a delivering boring presentation in this day and age. Engage your audience...

Guest Blog from UCLan - Vevox: An innovative approach to obtaining feedback

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A guest post from Kerry Pollard – Senior Lecturer (School of Community Health and Midwifery). Lea...

Loughborough University reveal their advice for rolling out Vevox institution-wide

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When educational institutions are looking for a new student response system, we often get asked h...

What are the main learning technology challenges for 2019?

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One of the main features that seemed very popular with attendees at ALTC and was mentioned a lot ...

Polling app myths: Dispelling the 3 counter main arguments

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As more and more universities are making the switch over to polling apps from clickers, the reaso...

4 reasons Universities are still using Clicker Student Response Systems

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So, given the clear benefits to an institution of cloud-based polling and Q&A app solutions why a...

Why everyone is moving from clickers to polling software

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In this article, we share the 4 main reasons why polling software is now unrivalled compared to t...

Vevox's 'Back to School' late summer product update

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Since our last product update in June, the product and development teams in Finland and the UK ha...

Bring technology into the lecture theatre to achieve the best of both worlds!

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In this guest blog post, Simeon, a lecturer at LIPA, shares his experience of using Vevox to teac...

Back to school with Vevox - EdTech tips

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Whether you're looking forward to getting back into a routine or making the last weeks of the sum...

How Vevox supports Self-Regulated Learning

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Self-regulated learning is becoming increasingly relevant in Higher Education as institutions con...

How live polling and Q&A is increasing student success

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Education establishments are often looking for engagement tools like Vevox to enhance the learnin...

Using Vevox: 5 reasons to be cheerful not fearful

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I have used Vevox for the last 9 months with undergraduate students in sessions with between 50 t...

3 decision-making tips when choosing a student response system

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With many factors to consider when choosing a student response system, it's important to assess y...

4 statistics that show the impact of student response systems

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There has been a vast amount of academic research that has been published in the last decade abou...

3 quick and simple tools to increase student engagement

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Often educators look for new pedagogical tools to help them save time and to achieve better resul...

4 vital questions every lecturer should ask their students

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Questions have long been used as an effective teaching tool for educators to gauge student unders...

3 ways to maximize student success with your revision classes

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Just as with lessons or lectures throughout the term, students need to participate and engage for...

We weren't asked to make a speech at the Bett awards...

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It's still sinking in that we're the proud owners of a shiny Bett award. There wasn't time for sp...

If you don’t revise, you shall not pass

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Deciding on how to incorporate revision into taught sessions and make it interesting can be a cha...

3 ways a student response system can help increase student retention and success rates

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Success comes more naturally in the classroom when students enjoy their chosen field of study, fe...

How student engagement apps can support creation of assessments in the classroom

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Educators spend an enormous amount of time not only planning lectures and seminars but also plann...

6 Top Tips for Unmissable Classes

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Student engagement and active learning is important for any lecture as it allows students to reta...

Lectures remain at the core of higher education in the era of e-learning

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At Vevox we believe that the Lecture is not an anachronism that persists solely because of apathy...

Vevox breaks down barriers in Medical Education

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In this guest blog, Dr Emily Farrow from the Royal Free Hospital explains how the use of Vevox ha...

Boost motivation and results in class with these 7 tips

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How can you keep students engaged during your lecture? How do you avoid distractions? This blog p...

How to Use Interactive Learning to Avoid the Brain Drain

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'Brain drain' is frustrating for both lecturers and students. Can interactive learning help avoid...

5 Ways to use Differentiation in Higher Education Classrooms

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The education world has long known that all students learn differently but with the static method...

Fight Procrastination Day: 3 steps to motivate students

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Dr Samuel Johnson produced an anatomy of Procrastination in an essay of 1751. “The folly of allow...

How to use Vevox in a lecture

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If you haven’t yet experimented with live polling and discussion apps in class, the start of the ...

Help students to thrive by providing real time feedback

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Making assessments and providing feedback is a significant part of an educators role. Normally, a...

Do’s and Don'ts for offering workplace training employees WANT to attend

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Workplace training can still carry the stigma of crusty sandwiches and falling asleep at the back...

Putting Students at the Centre of Learning- the Pivotal Role of the Learning Technologist

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Higher education is presently undergoing a far-reaching transformation, enabled by the deploy-men...

How Can Universities Improve Student Retention Rates

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Currently the UK is a leader in terms of the number of students that start and finish a universit...

7 tips for delivering a standout training session (for even the most experienced training providers)

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Following on from my previous blog '4 Essential Elements for Effective Training Sessions'  which ...

Is technology really welcome in today's classrooms?

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As a technology company and a group of tech savvy people, it’s easy to get caught up and assume t...

4 tips to maximise the use of your University’s ICT budget

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Today, student outcome and educational success depends on great instruction/lecturing practices, ...

How emojis are influencing engagement and interaction in our lives

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Emojis have become ubiquitous with 92% of the online population using them. So why are they popul...

TEF, Student Outcomes & Engagement 

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On June 21 2017, in the UK, the Teaching Excellence Framework (“TEF”) was published to an accompa...

How can a polling app like Vevox help to get your new academic year off to a good start?

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It might have been a tough slog to get to the end of this final semester/term but the end is in s...

Harnessing Disruptive Technology in Higher Education

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The business of colleges and universities is the creation and diffusion of knowledge. The commonp...

How Can Social Media Be Successfully Used in the Classroom?

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Today, an increasing number of lecturers are integrating social media channels such as Facebook, ...

Tips for choosing the right tool to engage students

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Increasing student engagement and lecture participation can be difficult, even for the most exper...

Can Collaborative Learning Be a Benefit to Students

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The aim of education is to provide students with the skills they will need for later life.  Yet a...

How Technology Ensures That The Lecture Remains At The Core Of Education

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The first University in the Western Hemisphere was founded at Fez in Morocco in 1059, followed by...

Four reasons why students love Vevox

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From student research UCLan conducted using Vevox, we know that all students said they enjoyed us...

Does Educational Technology Spell the End of the Traditional Textbook?

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Educators have long known that students learn the most when they are immersed in a subject and th...

How Neo-Millennials Learn Best

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We have all become vaguely familiar with the term ‘millennials’ to describe the age group in thei...

Show them they're valued... a history lesson from the 90's

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Things have changed, and whilst yes, some old tech can still ‘do the job’, up to date options are...

RAID 2017 - How technology can amplify levels of engagement and insight

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RAID, Europe’s leading Conference on the nature, scale and impact of technological change, was he...

10 Reasons you need a Polling App in your training sessions…

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The arrival of polling apps has transformed the landscape meaning that live polling and text base...

4 Essential Elements for Effective Training Sessions

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For any training to be justified it must add value to an organization and to individual employee'...

Making the Most of that Eight Seconds

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Keeping students engaged and interested in a lecture topic has always been a challenge, even for ...

Vevox Declares an Amnesty for Clickers

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Vevox, a global leader in real-time audience engagement, has declared an amnesty for ‘Clickers’ t...

The Key to Adding Value within Training Sessions Lies with the Smartphone

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For many corporations the ultimate aim of training is to make more money. Of course it’s also abo...

The Surprising Reason Why Students Leave

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I have spoken many times in front of audiences ranging from a few to many 100s of people. So why ...

5 Effective Ways to Use Vevox in the Lecture Theatre

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Large classes present a number of challenges for many lecturers. Students typically sit back in s...

“Involve me and I understand” - Harnessing Technology to Drive Student Engagement

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The Taoist Lao-Tze wrote, “Tell me and I forget. Show me and I remember. Involve me and I underst...

Falling out of love… with your audience response system provider?

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Have mobile apps made audience response systems redundant? Will 2017 be your turning point?

5 interesting facts about Valentine's Day that will surprise you

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As attention turns towards Valentine's Day, I came across 5 interesting facts about the celebrati...

Why our customers fell in love with Vevox…

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Keeping in theme with valentine's Day - here are some reasons why our customers fell in love with...

BETT 2017 – We’ve come a long way in a year!

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Returning to BETT last week, a year on from our launch into the education sector at BETT 2016, I ...

Will virtual reality become part of everyday life?

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The Vevox team experienced the virtual reality world and discussed the future of VR. The question...

Have a merry Vevox Christmas and enjoy the Christmas Quiz!

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Both our Vevox and Lumi teams have had a very busy year and have enjoyed every moment of the past...

Bringing interactive storybooks to life in the classroom

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I was thrilled to see Ian Livingstone’s keynote speech at this years’ ALT-C conference* since he ...

Lagging or Leading - How Vevox helps to understand where your students are in their learning

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There is a lively, and intensifying, media debate at present concerning both the mechanics of tea...

Exit tickets go digital

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Aleksandra Perisic looks at the benefits of exit tickets and why it makes sense to do it via an a...

How knowing what’s correct will help students and teachers alike

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Last month Vevox Product Manager Matt Kelly explained how customer feedback was so important to t...

Smartphones - a game changer for learning

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The smartphone has become an essential part of everyday life. We use it for everything from keep...