Proactive Check-in

NAME

Proactive Check-in

WHO

In-person, online, and concurrent participants. Activity helps instructor check-in with participants at the beginning of class. The information can provide a proactive and quick read on how participants feel about a specific area. This can be used to revisit or suggest different content or gauge comfortable level of audience before a workshop.

DURATION

5 - 10 minutes

DIRECTIONS

• Start at the beginning.
• Introduce the prompt.
  • Examples:
    • What is your comfortable level with this XYZ content area? 
    • Do you feel prepared for the exam this week?
    • How clearly did author XYZ explain content XYZ?
• Optional: let participants know they can give a short explanation.
• Give participants around 30 seconds to think.
• Consider starting out to model expectations and create ease. Choose a number and explain why.
  • E.g. I’m feeling like a 7 today because I stayed up late studying.
• Variables:
  • Polling and Jamboards and save time.
  • Depending on class size, ask for a few volunteers or give each participant a chance to share their number and explain.
  • Polling or jamboard have anonymous features.

Available Tools

• Poll Everywhere (example)
• Zoom Polling
• Jamboard (example)
• A non-tech option is to ask students.

Modalities

• Inperson:
  • Poll Exerywhere
• Online: 
  • Jamboard
  • Poll Everywhere or Zoom poll
• Concurrent:
  • Poll Everywhere or Zoom poll