The aim of the app, iClicker, is to come up with an intuitive and reliable response solution that deals with formative assessment and pedagogy. This app has been embraced by over a thousand higher educational institutions in North America and is used by more than two million learners. However, its use goes beyond higher education alone as its classroom response solutions works well with any kind of interactive whiteboard and any software application.

Website: https://www.iclicker.com/

What Users Love About the App

“Ease of use. Just log in and set up quizzes or polls. Then students can use their remote, computer, or smart phone to answer the questions. Teachers can assign things for students to accomplish prior to class to assess knowledge.”

“Students can review results and learn from questions they get wrong. You can have classrooms within iClicker for each course in order to keep things organized. There is a section for study materials and a place to see grades. The company has a very responsive help desk.”

“I love how the iclicker can do so many things! You can press the buttons in the remote and the answers chosen will reflect onto the screen. It’s incredibly fun and useful for students.”

“I love how you can see tour answers love compared to other students. It engages learning and keeps them on their toes. It has been so far the best tool I for undergraduate studies. I also love that the battery life holds very well. There is no need to plug it into an outlet for it to charge, which is very nice.”

“I used iclicker to participate in class polls, gain attendance points, and answer questions. I loved that iclicker could create visual representations in the form of charts so professors and students could see where they respectively stood.”

What Users Dislike About the App

“Costly subscription. This product is very expensive. The subscription also expired part way through the year requiring us to purchase an additional subscription.”

“I disliked how hard and confusing it is to initially set up classrooms. Sometimes this took quite a bit of time and multiple attempts. Sometimes the link that was supposed to set the one needed to set up a classroom space did not work. This resulted in teachers having to put off their planned use if iclicker until they were able to get help from the company.”

“I dislike how sometimes if you are not connected to the class number then you cannot participate. Sometimes there are signaling errors so that makes it hard for students to connect and interact. I also dislike how it runs on batteries.”

“When you drop the iclicker it has a tendency to break, so the plastic is not very durable. Some students can not afford the cost of another iclicker because of the expense. The least helpful thing about the iclicker is that it cannot save your results into a database as the answers chosen will be forever deleted.”

“The technology is expensive and updates are less frequent because of the physical component. There are so many competing technologies on the market that are purely software based that offer better support, cheaper introductory prices, and clearer user interfaces for technology-challenged users.”