Wooclap is an 'Audience Response Tool'. While teaching/presenting, you can use this tool to present questions or statements to your audience. Attendees can respond to these using their smartphone or laptop. The results can be displayed directly on the screen of the presenter.
Wooclap helps to activate students and increase their involvement. In this way, the material covered is better remembered. As a teacher you can use this tool to test (prior) knowledge and respond to this during or after the lesson. Apart from that, Wooclap can just be a fun and interesting tool to promote interaction with (and between) students.
The tool can be used both in the classroom, and online. All UvA staff and students can log in to Wooclap and create and start their own sessions.
Watch the promotional video of Wooclap to get an idea of what the application does.
After you have successfully logged in you will be directed to the page My events in Wooclap.
When you are logged in into Wooclap you can select your language in the upper right corner.
Questions in Wooclap are part of an Event. How do you create a new event?
Questions asked to the audience in Wooclap are called interactions. There are several question types you can add to the event. Try the different types in Wooclap.
Watch the DEMO: How to create an event to see how to create the questions, or follow the instructions below:
When using Wooclap during teaching or presenting, you will often want to alternate the interactive slides with questions with informational slides (for example, from a PowerPoint or a PDF file).
You can do this in two ways:
It is recommended to use the web application. The only disadvantage in this is that PowerPoint animations are not available. If it is really important to be able to show animations we advice you use the PowerPoint add-in.
Always test your presentation before using Wooclap live while presenting. This is especially true if you use the PowerPoint add-in on a different computer than the one you used to create the Wooclap presentation.
In the web application of Wooclap you present from the online Wooclap environment (via wooclap.uva.nl). Watch the DEMO: How to create an event to see how to add informative slides to your Wooclap session, or follow these instructions:
In the online environment of Wooclap, animations (moving elements in PowerPoint) cannot be used. If it is important to show animations, we advise you use Wooclap via the PowerPoint add-in. It is available through the Microsoft Office store, for users with a UvA MS365 license. Using the Wooclap add-in is slightly more complicated and limited in functionality, compared to the web application.
Important: The Wooclap add-in is linked to your personal MS365 profile. Therefore it cannot be pre-installed on computers in classrooms. When using Wooclap via the PowerPoint add-in, it is advised to run the presentation on the same laptop that was used to create the presentation. If you do want to present on another computer, please test in advance whether Wooclap is also installed on it and works properly in combination with your PowerPoint file and your MS365 profile.
If you use the PowerPoint add-in you still have to create the questions in the web environment of wooclap (wooclap.uva.nl). To do this, follow the instructions under the headings Create new event and Create questions earlier on this page.
You will now have access to the questions you created in Wooclap via the web environment.
Please note that participants' answers are stored online on Wooclap's servers. The UvA has a processing agreement with the supplier for this purpose. Never ask your audience to share sensitive personal data and allow participants to participate in the session anonymously whenever possible. Read the instructions on the possibilities to let students participate anonymously or not.
There may be reasons for not allowing students to participate anonymously. As a teacher you may want to introduce a game element (gamification), where students compete against each other and a winner must be determined. It is also conceivable that a session is disrupted by an uninvited guest. By asking students to log in you can keep them out. If you ask students to log in, always use the SSO / University login, so students log in with their student number and password. Never use the Email and Social login methods.
If after a session you find that students have entered (too) personal answers that should not be stored, delete these results after the session.
In Wooclap you can also make exports of events that have taken place, with the responses of individual students. As a teacher, you need to be careful sharing this data. Do not share the exports with others, unless you have a good reason to do so.
Do you want to get even more out of Wooclap? Then take a look at the additional options.
When you are logged into Wooclap you can click on the question mark in the right bottom corner. You might find the answer to your question. In the Wooclap Help Center you can also find a lot of information.
If you cannot find the answer yourself, please contact your faculty support.
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