Getting Started
New Users Guide for Instructors
ITSC provides and supports the Personal Response System (PRS) in HKUST. If you decide to use it in your teaching…
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Please click here to sign up with ITSC. |
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If you would like to have a demonstration on how to use the PRS, please contact Doug Wong of ITSC (ccdoug@ust.hk). |
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Advise your students to go to the AV Services Loan Counter at Rm 1030 (Lift 1) to check out their own ID-encoded PRS handsets. The handsets will be loaned to them for the duration of their study at HKUST. |
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If you have any questions about the PRS or using it in class, please email to ccdoug@ust.hk. |
A brief summary on how to use PRS
1. Preparation before going to class
- To use PRS, first check if the room where you will be teaching is equipped with the necessary equipment. The new PRS is now available in all the central classrooms and lecture theaters.
- Your students need to check out their own PRS handset if they do not have one yet.
- Before going to class, you should prepare some questions which you will ask your students.
2. Steps in using PRS in class
- Activate the PRS software program in your PC, and start a new PRS session. Enter your Course Code at the Create New Session dialog box correctly.
- Display the question you want to ask the students together with its answer options. You can do this using the PRS software program or other means such as an overhead projector.
- Give the students time to respond to the question. More time will be needed for a larger class or for a difficult question. Start the countdown by clicking the "start" button in the PRS program.
- Students respond by clicking the appropriate buttons on their handsets. Signals will be transmitted to the PC for processing by a reciever.
- Once the response time is over, PRS will display a response distribution chart showing the number of students in each category. You may provide the correct answer of that question at this point, or you may provide the answers of all questions when you end the session.
- Repeat the steps for another question if necessary.
- At the end of the session, you are adviced to save your data.
A few hints
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Questions must be multiple-choice type of up to 10 selections. |
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Instructors can have a choice of 'Known' or 'Anonymous' mode when collecting data from students. |
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The questions used in a PRS session can be set:
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PRS Resources for download
Sample questions for PRS sessions:
- ConcepTests for "Introductory Physics" (pdf format)
- Questions about Physics for ClassTalk (pdf format)
- ConcepTests for Chemistry
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