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Activote is Promethean’s integrated personal response system that is designed to encourage student participation and enhance learning.

This could be as straightforward as determining whether pupils are following a lesson, or it could be the basis for planned discussion. And it's all done by asking students to make a choice and click a button. Capturing student responses when they are questioned can be a powerful tool in influencing the direction of a lesson or the planning of future work. Activote allows the answers of each pupil to be saved for retrieval later - individually or as a class. Results can also be exported to Excel for record keeping and further analysis where appropriate.

Deliberately simple to use (so that the technology doesn’t interfere with teaching and learning), the system is equally effective in primary classrooms as it is within higher education. Age differentiation is made mainly through the choice of either piece of Promethean’s award-winning software (Activprimary or Activstudio).

Enriching learning in this way is available to everyone as Activote works with any interactive whiteboard. It also has the ability to work independently of an interactive whiteboard, making it a mobile solution, too. Communicating through radio technology eliminates the need for students to point devices in order to cast their vote.

Flexibility is key in any learning environment, which is why Activote can be used in several ways. Integrated into Promethean’s software, it can be used ad-hoc, allowing teachers to ask unplanned questions as they occur. However, it also works effortlessly over any application or website. Similarly, teachers can choose between using the supplied pre-prepared content and easily making their own with the aid of the built-in Question Master Wizard.