Use of Tools for Questioning

Your videoconferencing system may include interaction tools. Below are several types of tools that can be used for questioning in a session and sample situations for which they can be used:

Polls

(Multiple Choice, Multiple Answer, or Short Answer)

Asking learners real-time survey questions in a variety of forms; allowing learners to answer anonymously; quickly displaying answers or response statistics to learners.

Chat

Asking questions that require brief or direct answers; eliciting questions from learners; keeping a record of important questions that can be referred to at a later time.

Notes

Typing specific questions in advance in order to display them to learners during a session; avoiding the need to repeat a verbal question multiple times.

Whiteboards

Getting learners to ask or answer questions in a collaborative space; collecting questions or responses that you will return to later in the session; asking multi-part questions.