Clickable Image Polling Questions
When using an open-ended polling question, it can be challenging to quickly make sense of dozens or hundreds of student responses to such a question. The clickable image question type, however, creates a heatmap of student answers so you can quickly analyze and respond to the results. I find that coming up with good clickable image questions requires some creativity, which is why I've collected these inspiring examples in one place.
I’ve been thinking about clickable image questions lately because they’ve come up in three podcast interviews this year. In Episode 34 of Intentional Teaching, I talked with Sravanti Kantheti, program director for anatomy and physiology at Lanier Technical College, about her use of Top Hat’s “Ace” AI-powered learning assistant. That meant talking about her use of Top Hat, which has a variety of classroom response tools, including clickable image questions. (Top Hat calls them “click on target” questions.) Sravanti uses these questions in her anatomy and physiology courses, and she shared a favorite with me. She’ll show her students a diagram of a human heart and ask them, “Where in the heart would you find deoxygenated blood?” The resulting heatmap gives her a lot of information about her students’ understanding of heart anatomy and blood flow.