University of Wales Trinity Saint David
Learn how Ffion uses Vevox to increase gamification of her sessions, leading to an increase in student engagement.
University of Wales Trinity Saint David
Founded in 2010 (formerly Saint David’s College, Lampeter which was founded in 1822), the University of Wales Trinity Saint David is a relatively new University, currently home to around 17,000 students. The University has three campuses across south west Wales – in Carmarthen, Lampeter and Swansea.
The University was the first in the UK to place sustainable development at its core, and is known for its tradition of research in humanities.
Ffion Cumberpatch, a Senior Lecturer and Program Manager at the University has been using Vevox for around 4 years. She explained why Vevox helps to increase student engagement while also underlining the importance a student response system has in helping students pay attention during class.
Vevox has increased engagement massively.
Why does Ffion use Vevox?
Ffion has been working in Higher Education for around four years across different courses – she currently looks after a level 4 course at the University of around 400 plus students. Many of the students she teachers are adult learners who have been out of education for long periods of time – therefore meaning coming back into education can be difficult and remaining focused for long periods of time during lectures can be a struggle.
Ffion first became aware of Vevox when she was searching for a way to engage her students more, while also getting feedback & allowing students more opportunities to ask questions and make suggestions. It was while looking for a suitable tool that she became aware that the University had a Vevox license that she had access to use.
She first started using Vevox as a recap tool – asking questions to students as a knowledge check, to find out what they had remembered from previous sessions.
The students really liked using Vevox and loved the leaderboard
Gaining real-time feedback was another important element for Ffion and Vevox allowed her to collect feedback from students when trying new things during class – and Ffion says that the anonymity was really important for this, as it allowed students the space to contribute with honesty.
Ffion also uses the Q&A in Vevox – putting the QR code up on the screen at the start of every session, allowing students to begin populating the Q&A with questions & comments right from the off.
Ffion’s favourite features
Leaderboards for gamification
"I really like the ability within Vevox to have leaderboards, as I am really into bringing gamification to the classroom. I use this when recapping students’ knowledge – and they enjoy the competitive element."
Anonymity creates helpful, honest feedback
"I love that I can easily collect feedback all in one place – anonymity allows the students to provide honest feedback"
Quick, easy & intuitive
"Vevox is easy to use & so quick and simple to setup before a session – it’s also very intuitive - I really like how easy it is to download data - say student feedback, from a session and put it into an excel spreadsheet to share."
Saving time with the AI quiz generator
"I really like the AI quiz generator. I mainly use it to help me create some recap questions, and then go in and edit them to make them precisely relevant to the topic I want them to be on."
Does Vevox increase student engagement?
Ffion says that using Vevox has "increased engagement massively" – with an example of this being her having a 100% response rate when asking students for feedback through Vevox.
She also feels that Vevox helps hugely to increase engagement amongst students who have conditions such as ADHD:
"They may struggle to focus during the session, but they’ll engage with the Vevox quiz because they’re motivated to be at the top of the leaderboard."
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