Confused in Class? There's an App for that

Our CompSci Prof. uses something built in-house by students to evaluate who understands what &#38; whatnot in real-time too.<p>How long is this around? Two years. Works.<p>He uses his iPad to present his slides wirelessly to our beamer and a student voluntarily manages the polls and when enough people haven't understood a topic, the student hits a button and the slide updates the graph, then the Prof focuses on that topic a little more.<p>That sounds more complicated than it is, it's dead easy and flawless, despite the fact that our Prof is an iDiot or iNerd, hehe :) He's just a huuge fan of everything Apple.<p>It challenges everyone to cooperate, thankfully it's anonymous, so we can fool around too, but the Prof notices that :D<p>In my eyes, the skill to built this is really low compared to the other stuff we've done, but it's a nice tool. Unfortunately most Prof just don't fucking care and go-on with their one-man-show.<p>PS: Our Prof uses the stats and data generated to create the exam also ;)

Nice concept! Although I can imagine this only works in large classrooms, as where I'm used to have pretty small sized classes (~30).<p>I have had the opportunity to experiment with something like a voting system. The teacher mixed his lecture with some (multiple choice) questions the students can answer via the voting system. This created a far more dynamic lecture with instant feedback on the answers provided. Maybe a feature you want to consider? Because with the smartphones and tablet these days you eliminate the need for an extra device (like we were experimenting with).<p>Besides this all, the site looks broken here (Fx 12.0, Vista) because the CSS is not loaded. IE8 in Vista is also messy (with a loaded CSS file).

I'm the developer behind understoodit.com - any feedback on understoodit.com would be much appreciated!

Great concept - quality is definitely an issue in the classroom setting that traditional methods of control do little to address - i.e.: end of term surveys etc.<p>Thinking freely here:<p>Could you produce a report for the school's administration of each professor's confused/understood ratio?<p>As gee-totes suggested, a messaging system would close the feedback loop nicely.<p>Is there a means of authenticating students? If this tool became a means of evaluation, it would be open to gaming by cagey professors.<p>Anyway, nice work, good video, great idea!

Is everyone expected to have a smartphone now a days? I really don't want a class to require a smartphone to participate. This would be much better as a web app.

Really like this. Has wider application than the classroom. Think gathering market/customer feedback to a new advertisement or TV show.<p>This was being used before the smartphone, so imagine similar products exist. However your metrics look meaningful.

Simple solution to a big problem. Well done guys. Get it into the hands of lecturers, get feedback and iterate.

What a fantastic idea for teacher feedback. I can see this being useful in every single classroom.