SMART Response Breakthrough!

If your school is anything like ours, you have some SMART Boards and maybe some SMART Response devices. Those clickers are wonderful, but expensive. Soooooo... why not use iPod's / iPads? SMART Technology developed a way for mobile devices to link to your SMART Notebook presentation with questions. It's called SMART Response VE. When you start your question set, an assessment ID appears. Students use their mobile devices to navigate to http://response.smarttech.com/ and enter the Assessment ID and their Student ID. They answer the questions and you get the results right there in your SMART Notebook lesson. The versatility of the iPod Touch still continues to amaze me and it seems to grow each day.

So what was the big "Breakthrough"? I have been trying to get this to work for months with no success. I finally stumbled across some documentation that told me to change my setting to VE (beta) in the SMART Response Setup Tool (search for ve). You have to change your setup tool to match the clicker device that you are using. Since I was using the SMART Response PE clicker, I never got the Assessment ID option. Anyway... breakthrough complete. Now it is time to take it to the class for some action research ; )