Many universities use Classroom Response Systems (CRS) to actively involve students during class. In addition to long-established hardware-based CRS, there are more and more web-based solutions being developed, which allow students to... more
Many universities use Classroom Response Systems (CRS) to actively involve students during class. In addition to long-established hardware-based CRS, there are more and more web-based solutions being developed, which allow students to participate by using their own smart devices in order to vote. This way the final price of the system does not depend on the number of students, so even courses with more than 1000 participants may implement Peer Instruction, which is a teaching method that utilizes CRS. As a side effect, the functionality of the mobile devices exceeds the Clickers used in hardware-based CRS. The improved input capabilities enable developers to implement new types of questions. A market analysis, which was conducted as part of this thesis, shows that many existing web-based CRS fail to take advantage of this opportunity. Therefore, a web-based CRS was developed as part of this thesis, which is very easily extensible to include new question formats. The system already contains some question types. In the future even more question types may be tested effortlessly, based on this system. This will hopefully improve teaching with CRS in the long term.
