More tools during a session

In an anonymous session, the smartphone joins after scanning without any input. At the top is a device label and next to it the code made of one letter and three digits. With it, the person can continue on another device: choose Already in? Enter code there. A one-time hint explains this on first joining.

11Device label22Code33Hint about the code

1. Device label
2. Code
3. Hint about the code

With Pseudonym, the smartphone asks for a self-chosen name; Join completes joining. The answers belong to the same person throughout the session without you knowing who it is — a good middle ground between anonymous and named. Each name can only be connected once; if it is already taken, the page asks for another one.

11Type a pseudonym22Join

1. Type a pseudonym
2. Join

With With names, the smartphone shows the course list with a search field; tapping one’s own name joins. If guests are allowed, I'm not on the list appears below — then the name is typed in. If someone switches devices, the person picks their name again on the new device and takes over their entry with all answers.

11Search names22Tap your own name33Not on the list (guest)

1. Search names
2. Tap your own name
3. Not on the list (guest)

In the live cockpit, the list icon next to the number of connected devices opens the Participants & groups dialog. It shows who is connected and who from the course list is still missing; guests carry the mark “guest” there. Names only reach the projector if you explicitly choose so.

11Participants & groups

1. Participants & groups

Once everyone is in, a click on Joining open in the header closes access. The button then reads Joining closed: new devices are turned away, and the join QR code disappears from the projector. Anyone already in can still reconnect at any time. A second click opens joining again.

11Joining closed

1. Joining closed

To check a playlist on the projector beforehand, switch on Test run at the bottom left of the start dialog; the start button then turns orange and reads Start test run. The test run behaves like a normal session — projector, devices, reveal, model solution — but does not count as a lesson held. The switch is off again every time the dialog opens.

11Test run22Start test run

1. Test run
2. Start test run

In the live cockpit, the orange Test run badge sits at the top so that nobody mistakes it for a real lesson. The Pause session button is missing: a test run cannot be kept, only ended.

11Test run22End

1. Test run
2. End

End asks for confirmation and discards the test run completely: no answers, no times, no progress, nothing in the analytics. Instant questions and added questions from the test run disappear again; what was in the playlist before stays untouched, and the up next mark stays where it was.

11End and discard

1. End and discard

For a lesson without any prepared questions, the Playlists page has the Spontaneous session button. It starts immediately, without a start dialog, and creates a playlist “Spontaneous · date” for it. The session runs without a course, with the join mode you last chose in the start dialog; if that was Name + student ID, it runs With names, and participants type their name themselves.

11Spontaneous session

1. Spontaneous session

The live page starts empty; a message names the join mode. Every question is created with Instant question — choose the type, add text if you like, Add — as shown in the guide Running a session. Created instant questions are then listed under Topics & Questions with the tag “sofort”. A spontaneous session ends like any other with End.

11Instant question

1. Instant question

The devices now show a button with a speech bubble and question mark at the top. It opens Messages and questions. First, participants choose who the post goes to: To the instructor (default, only you read it) or To everyone. Then they write up to 280 characters and submit with Send.

11Questions22To whom?33Type the question44Send

1. Questions
2. To whom?
3. Type the question
4. Send

Posts to everyone appear on all devices, the one with the most upvotes at the top. With the arrow next to someone else’s post, participants upvote; a second tap takes the upvote back; the down arrow downvotes. That way the question many people have moves up — not the loudest voice. Own posts carry the mark yours.

11Own post with upvotes22Upvote

1. Own post with upvotes
2. Upvote

The projector shows the question in large type below the line “Question from the audience”, with the number of upvotes and without the sender. It stays until you take it down or mark it as answered — or until you open, close or reveal a question: then it leaves by itself.

On the devices, the window Messages from your instructor opens with the text and a Download button for each file — even over an open question, which stays behind it. Whoever closes it brings it back with the envelope at the top. Anyone joining later also receives the messages to everyone; the files apply only to this session.

11Message22Download

1. Message
2. Download

A question with the red ↻2 runs in two rounds (switched on in the playlist via ⋮ More actions → Turn on peer instruction, see the guide Playlists). First everyone answers silently on their own. The main button now reads Close → discussion: it closes round 1 without revealing. Questions where between 30 and 70 % are right are ideal.

11Close → discussion22Connected devices

1. Close → discussion
2. Connected devices

After round 1 is closed, the projector automatically shows the discussion slide — without the distribution, so that the discussion stays open. The smartphones show their own answer and the same task: discuss with the neighbors, then vote again. Two to three minutes are enough.

11Task

1. Task

In the question tree, the discussion slide is a row of its own between the two rounds. When the discussion is over, the main button Show round 2 (or the space bar) opens the same question again. For round 2, LehrPuls suggests half of the planned time, at least 30 seconds.

11Show round 222Discussion slide

1. Show round 2
2. Discussion slide

After round 2 you reveal as usual. The projector compares both rounds: each bar shows the share from round 1 and round 2 side by side. The shift toward the correct answer is the learning effect — and visible to everyone. Cockpit and smartphones state the same share from round 1.

Select a question on the left that has already been played. The main button then reads Ask again: it appends a new run — with its own answers — and opens it immediately; the first run stays unchanged with its answers and analysis. If the selection is still on the question played last, Ask again is a small button below the main button. Peer instruction questions do not offer this — they have their two rounds.

11Select a played question22Ask again

1. Select a played question
2. Ask again

The second run is a row of its own below the first one in the question tree and runs like any question: close, reveal. In the analytics both runs appear separately, so you can compare what the discussion achieved.

11Run 222Close

1. Run 2
2. Close

If you want to walk through the room while asking, you control the session from your own smartphone. Remote in the header (smartphone icon) shows a QR code with the address and a six-digit code. The code is valid for ten minutes and for one device only. The remote needs the shared Wi-Fi or the hotspot, because the smartphone talks directly to your computer; it does not work via the Relay.

11Scan the QR code22Code33New code

1. Scan the QR code
2. Code
3. New code

Scan the QR code or type the address into the smartphone’s browser, enter the code and tap Connect. The cockpit then says “Smartphone connected”. The smartphone shows the question selected in the cockpit and four buttons below it: the large main button with the same label as in the cockpit, ‹ Back and Next › for browsing, and Reveal.

11Smartphone connected

11Selected question22Main button33Back44Next55Reveal

1. Smartphone connected
2. Selected question
3. Main button
4. Back
5. Next
6. Reveal

The main button on the smartphone works like the space bar in the cockpit: here it reveals the second run, and the projector shows the result immediately. Next › and ‹ Back work like the arrow keys, Reveal like the R key. New code or End access in the dialog sign the smartphone out; access always ends with the session.

If the question you need right now is not in the playlist, Add questions … next to Instant question helps. From the question pool … opens the same selection dialog as on the Playlists page, From another playlist … takes over a playlist, a section or a question block. Add exit ticket adds three ready-made questions for the end of the lesson: a scale about the lesson and the open questions “What are you taking away from this lesson?” and “What remained unclear?”.

11From the question pool22From another playlist33Exit ticket

1. From the question pool
2. From another playlist
3. Exit ticket

Added questions land in the section Added later at the end of the running playlist and are immediately waiting entries in the session; the selection jumps to the first one, nothing is opened. The devices stay connected — nobody has to rejoin. The main button carries on as usual.

11Section Added later22Show question

1. Section Added later
2. Show question

Whether participants may look up the revealed questions on their device is set by the Allow recap switch in the start dialog. In the header of the live cockpit, Recap on or Recap off shows the state and switches it with one click. Leave the recap off if the questions should not leave the room, for example exam questions.

11Recap on/off22Podium

1. Recap on/off
2. Podium

After the first revealed question, the devices show the line Session recap at the top with their own score.

11Session recap

1. Session recap

A tap opens the page Your session: the score at the top, below it every revealed question marked correct or not correct, with the own and the correct answer and — if you sent it — the model solution. Save as PDF opens the device’s print dialog. The recap is built solely from what the device received during the session, and it stays on the device.

11Save as PDF

1. Save as PDF

Podium in the header puts places 1 to 3 on the projector, ranked by correctly answered questions. Show with names shows the pseudonym, the name or — in an anonymous session — the device label; Show without names only states how many people share each place. Revealed questions that can be scored count; polls do not.

11Show with names22Show without names

1. Show with names
2. Show without names

The projector shows the podium with place 1 in the center. In addition, every smartphone sees — only for itself — its own place and number of correct answers. The next question clears the podium by itself; Hide podium takes it down immediately.

11Own place

1. Own place

If time runs out, choose Pause session next to End instead. The session is kept with its complete state: answers, groups and the state of every question. You can resume a week later, too, and even if other sessions ran in between.

11Pause session

1. Pause session

The devices show Session paused. If the page stays open, it reconnects by itself on resume; everyone else scans the QR code again and is the same person as before, because their device has remembered its code.

On the start page, the session is listed under Paused sessions, with the day it was paused, the number of participants and the questions done. Resume picks it up again, End closes it for good.

11Paused session22Resume

1. Paused session
2. Resume

The Playlists page shows the pause, too: an orange mark with a pause sign and the date, in the list as well as in front of the start button. The button reads Continue and resumes exactly this session — with the same join code and the same QR code. You start a new session with the same playlist from the menu next to it.

11Paused22Continue

1. Paused
2. Continue

After resuming, the live cockpit is back as it was before the pause; the devices that stayed open have reconnected by themselves. Open questions stay open but run without a deadline — set the timer again if needed.

11Reconnected22Main button

1. Reconnected
2. Main button

After ending, the final screen offers Session recap in large type, with the hint to save the page now: it stays only on this device and only while the tab is open. With Follow-up in the start dialog, the devices keep the review for up to fourteen days.

11Session recap

1. Session recap