Plickers - How to use it?

Why using this tool – benefits
Plickers is an interesting app that allows you to carry out tests, quiz and other surveys and collect data in real time, without any need for students to use a device. The teacher uses a smartphone or tablet connected to the internet and creates a digital class. The teacher then distributes to the learners a series of so-called cards that contain special codes.
The teacher asks a question to the class and uses his smartphone or tablet to collect the answers of any student, scanning the codes on the cards. The App will record all the answers, that will be immediately reworked and made available to the teacher himself. The results will appear, therefore, in real time on the smartphone or tablet of the teacher or displayed on the interactive dashboard.
Plickers is a tool that integrates very well with any type of teaching. It makes the lessons more engaging and interactive and thanks to the strong visual potential allows a particularly effective and shared learning.
Like many other tools, Plickers is available for free. Teachers who like to use enhanced add-ons and special functionalities can make use of the professional version, paying a monthly or annual subscription, but the basic version offers all what you normally need for your educational purposes.
Written instructions
Getting ready to use Plickers with your students, in classroom and/or for a distance learning activity, is very easy and fast!
You only need to log in at the website www.plickers.com/login and to download and install the Plickers app on your mobile device (Android or iOS).
1. Our suggestion is to start signing on the web through your computer. Open your browser (Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Safari... or what else you prefer) and search for "Plickers".
2. The homepage of Plickers will appear on your screen. Now you need to sign-up to go on:
3. To create your Plickers account you can use your Google identity (if you have one) or proceed with the registration filling in all fields with the required info:
4. Well done, now you are in! Your Plickers library is in front of you, it’s time to start practising the solutions offered by this app.
5. Before you take action, please spend some minutes to read the official instructions given by Plickers, because in this way you’re sure to be always updated. Click on your name on top right and choose Getting Started Guide from the page that will appear:
Read carefully the instructions in the Guide, and take note that this page is always available and it summarizes the entire info about your profile and the app.
6. Now go back to your library: so far it’s empty, but you are ready for the next steps in order to create amazing quiz, surveys and other activities for your students!
First of all, follow the to-do list in the box on the right. It will take only few minutes and at the end you will have all what you need! You can also follow a different order, e.g. downloading first the app on your mobile device, then creating a class and the cards and finally starting with the questions and surveys you want to run with your students.
When you Get the cards, please remind that you don’t need to buy anything: creating a card for each student is easy and can provide an amazing activity you can do in cooperation with the students themselves!
7. Once finished to collect the required stuff, your library will start showing your activities. In the screenshots below there is an example of a simple survey created just to have a trial.
8. Of course, you can develop your library adding the number of classes you need, creating every day new set of questions and surveys et cetera.