Sam wants to provide meaningful rapid feedback to students from multiple sources, including class members, tutors and mentors who are involved in the course on a variety of activities. Sam wants to save time not having to collate feedback from the various sources and so allows UpskillEQ to provide this rapidly back to students in real time. Sam is also able to provide in class and online real time feedback on activities that are visible to all students (in real time).

Wants her student teams to pitch their project to a panel of industry judges. She uses UpskillEQ to setup the teams and provides an easy access to judges to rate and judge the teams based on criteria Sally creates. Judges then judge the presentations and provide written feedback to student teams through the platform. This saves Sally time collating feedback and the delay in getting feedback back to students. Students can check their scores and feedback immediately after the presentation. Each team member in the team is able to see the score and feedback for their own team.

Problem

Bill is using a plethora of different services to engage his students. These include polling websites to pose questions to students in class and visually provide insight into collective class responses, scenarios for students to post their responses and for Bill to show the diversity of perspectives in class. Bill often exports data from quizzes on the LMS, graphs them and sends them back to students, a very cumbersome process that is both error prone but also takes up alot of time to do.

Solution

Bill uses UpskillEQ to create the polls and activities and for students to engage in these and be able to have access to the results after class for further reflection. The results are instantaneously accessible to students, while saving Bill previous time by not having to manually manage the data.

Maria wants to understand the impact of her course on her students, in particular in relation to soft skills and leadership skills which are difficult to measure with just quizzes, assignments and tests. She uses a variety of quantitative and qualitative tools to do a baseline measure of where her students are before class course begins and multiple measures throughout the course and after they complete the course to both understand her students’ progressive development. Since Maria is also making this data appears on the student platform, students can reflect on their results and do some reflections on their development. Since Maria also has ethics clearance, she is also able to do longitudinal and cross section research studies on her students’ data by exporting the results of the activities via the export function.

George wants to run some team activities and wants team members to give each other feedback on their communication effectiveness. George uses UpskillEQ to allows students to give each other feedback and score on a response to a “difficult team member” scenario. George then decipher’s why the top best response received the highest score from all the class members. George finds this more effective than being the only judge of the best communication.

Kayla has recently started on the journey of developing a leadership development course and wants to use validated existing instruments and interactive activities as part of her course. She uses UpskillEQ to prepopulate her course with activities and validated psychometric instruments that her students can do and runs discussions around these in class, saving valuable time reinventing the wheel or trying to find these from various disjoint platforms and services.

Susan and Kepler and have developed an instrument that they want to provide to their trainees but have no platform to do it. They use UpskillEQ to implement their instrument and provide this service to their users. Both Susan and Kepler are also able to validate their new instrument and also their participants are able to access this data.

Bob wants to evidence the effectiveness of his class so that he can apply for promotions and awards. He uses UpskillEQ to capture pre and post data to evidence this effectiveness using both qualitative and quantitative means.