What is the voting in Curipod?
After the participants have been asking questions, answering questions or brainstorming ideas in Curipod there is a new round where students vote.
When creating a Curipod activity you can choose if they should be voting for the "best", "most relevant" or "creative" response, and much time the voting should take. The default is 60 seconds.
How does it work?
Every participant get 2 random responses on their device, and they have to give a vote to one of them.
When they click on one response, that response get's one vote, and a new pair of responses appear.
This continue until the time is out, or the participant has voted through all the questions.
Note that a participant can also choose to "skip" meaning that none of the alternatives gets a vote. Below the students are voting on the best response for the question: "What caused the Civil War?"
But how do I know that the best responses actually get most votes?
If you have more than a handful of participants, the law of larger numbers will help make sure the best responses on average come to the top.
💡 Why do I need the voting if I don't like ranking student's responses?
The voting is important for several reasons 🙌
The participants get to learn what the others have responded with. Maybe they see something they hadn't thought about, but now want to learn more about?
It requires reflection and engagement to choose between the different options.
As a teacher you can now see what the participants agree on are the best ideas, questions and answers. Does everyone understand? Or do the class have it all wrong?
And don't forget that everyone is more motivated to discuss and learn about the responses when they are the ones who voted it up.