Personal Response System

Is it a challenge to get your students to participate, especially in larger classes?

response pad To help meet this challenge, CIRT has been working with faculty members to deploy classroom response system technology campus-wide. Using a classroom response system, a faculty member can survey students during lectures with results displayed real-time. In a classroom that is equipped with these response systems, each student has a handheld device at their desk and presses their choice upon the direction of the faculty member. All responses are collected by infrared transmission and then summarized results are displayed automatically as a histogram. Instructors can save and download this data for analysis and grading.

The InterWrite PRS (Personal Response System) web site offers documentation and short training videos, discussion groups, and more.

histogram To see a demo of the PRS Classroom Response system, contact Heather Millick, Academic Technology Support Specialist. She may be reached by phone at 2479 or by e-mail at h-millick@indstate.edu.

To find out how you can have this system available for use in your classroom, contact the Help Desk x2910