(Skkn 2023) using inknoe classpoint to improve 10 graders’ interaction in efl classrooms

Whether teaching in person or from afar, ClassPoint makes it easy for educators to annotate their slides using inking, text box, shapes, add unlimited whiteboard, randomly pick names, cr

NGHE AN DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING

NGHE AN DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING

NGUYEN DUC MAU HIGH SCHOOL

TEACHERS: NGUYEN ANH TUAN

HO THI LAN HUONG

Tel: 0386826356

0982479385

School year: 2022 – 2023

I Reasons for the study 2

V New features in the study’s result 4

1 What is Inknoe ClassPoint on PowerPoint? 4

2 Overview of Inknoe ClassPoint on PowerPoint 4

3 Steps for implementation on Inknoe ClassPoint on PowerPoint 5

3.1 Install Classpoint 5

3.2 Introducing the ClassPoint interface 6

3.3 Ask students Interactive Questions 10

3.4 Use ClassPoint’s Gamified Star Rewards 11

4 Launching the lesson on Inknoe ClassPoint on PowerPoint 12

4.1 Multiple choice 12

4.2 Create an Interactive Word Cloud 14

4.3 Short Answer Questions for the Whole Class 15

4.4 Slide Drawing 16

4.5 Fill in the blanks 17

1 The reality of applying Inknoe ClassPoint on PowerPoint at

Nguyen Duc Mau high schools

PART A: INTRODUCTION

I Reasons for the study

In recent years, education reform is taking place strongly in Vietnam to meet the needs of society The goal of education must also change to be more student-oriented; The goal of education is not that students pass more or less exams, but rather what prepares them for life The innovation orientation of education is

"Teaching must combine literacy, teaching and career orientation, contributing to the transition from an education that is heavy on knowledge transmission to an education that develops comprehensively both in terms of quality and quantity and ability, harmonizes virtue, intelligence, body, beauty and brings out the best potential of each student”

To meet the innovation requirements of education, there are many models and solutions proposed by educational researchers In particular, the term that is mentioned a lot nowadays is "cognitive constructivism" "Cognitive constructivism" takes the point of view of building new knowledge based on old knowledge or previously known experiences, studied and researched by many researchers And the view of cognitive constructivism is: Learning is the process by which individuals form their own knowledge, which is the process by which individuals organize activities to explore and discover the outside world and restructure them in the form

of cognitive maps

According to Circular No 32/2018/TT-BGDĐT dated December 26, 2018 of the Minister of Education and Training, the basic objective of the General Education Program in English is to help students form and develop their communication capacity through training in listening, speaking, reading, writing and language knowledge (phonics, vocabulary, grammar) Communication skills and language literacy are built on the basis of specific communicative competence units, in themes and topics relevant to the needs and abilities of high school students to help them meeting the requirements specified in the 6-level Foreign Language Competency Framework for Vietnam (issued according to the Circular No 01/2014/TT-BGDĐT dated January 24, 2014 of the Minister of Education and Training), specifically, students finishing high school get Level 3

In the 4.0 era, the application of IT in teaching is a necessity Thus, teachers should not only apply information technology to present knowledge but also apply information technology to be able to interact with students Especially, in the school year 2021-2022, the covid-19 epidemic across the country was complicated, so students mainly study online However, at present, most teachers only use IT to present knowledge in a monotonous way, so the learning process of students is less interactive, which makes students distract from the lesson and feel boring, causing negative impacts on the quality of teaching To meet the interactive needs in online teaching like face-to-face learning, we have come to Inknoe ClassPoint software This is a powerful interactive tool integrated into Microsoft PowerPoint to help

teachers not need to use too much software in a lesson while still ensuring the presentation element and interacting with students, improving efficiency in the teaching process

Through the study of the program and teaching practice, we found that the software is very suitable for teaching some lessons in the English 10 Global success program and the efficiency is significantly improved when using information technology during implementation With the desire to develop the students' competence qualities as well as to train generations of dynamic students who are capable of working cooperatively and solving practical problems, we chose the topic

“USING INKNOE CLASSPOINT TO IMPROVE 10 GRADERS’

INTERACTION IN EFL CLASSROOMS” for our experienced innovation

II Aim of the research

The aims of this study are:

- To give out a brief overview Inknoe ClassPoint on PowerPoint

- To discuss the way to teach English 10 Global success by using Inknoe ClassPoint on PowerPoint

- To design some activities with Inknoe ClassPoint on PowerPoint to teach some lessons of units of English 10 Global success

- To propose some suggestions and recommendations to attract students’ attention

in learning English

- In addition, through the topic, help ourselves and colleagues foster more

knowledge to innovate teaching methods according to modern educational technology

III Research method

1 Research the theoretical and practical basis of the topic

2 Investigate the current status of innovation in teaching methods and application

of IT in teaching English in the working area

3 Investigate the learning situation of high school students in studying English at high school

4 How to apply Inknoe ClassPoint software in teaching

5 Building the process of teaching English 10 Global success with the software application "Inknoe ClassPoint"

6 Conduct pedagogical experiments to consider the applicability of the topic in improving teaching effectiveness

IV Scope of the study

1 Using Inknoe ClassPoint software in teaching

2 Special competencies that need to be formed and developed for students in

teaching English 10 in the new general education program

4 Research period: Applied to 10th grade students (10A2, 10A5, 10A7, 10A11, 10A12) at the working unit in the academic year 2022 -2023

V New features in the study’s result:

- Supplementing and clarifying the theoretical and practical basis of teaching and learning activities in the direction of promoting students' capacity

- Proposing the process of organizing teaching with Inknoe ClassPoint software application in English teaching 10 Global success

- Design learning activities with the application of ClassPoint software in teaching some lessons of English 10 Global success in the direction of capacity development for students

- Building rubrics to assess students' ability when participating in learning with ClassPoint software application

- The results of the research topic both provide a practical scientific basis and become a reference in renewing teaching methods in the direction of current capacity

development for English 10 in particular and general subjects

PART B: MAIN CONTENT

I Theoretical background

1 What is Inknoe ClassPoint on PowerPoint?

ClassPoint is an integrated interactive teaching and classroom quiz tool designed for every educator who uses PowerPoint It allows teachers to quickly turn their PPT slides into interactive quizzes, run the quizzes with students, collect their live responses, score students, and save data It also provides educators with handy annotation tools and digital whiteboards inside PowerPoint ClassPoint helps educators achieve all the above right within PowerPoint; no need to switch to other applications

2 Overview of Inknoe ClassPoint on PowerPoint

ClassPoint is an all-in-one teaching tool integrated seamlessly with PowerPoint It helps educators to teach more efficiently without switching between many different apps Whether teaching in person or from afar, ClassPoint makes it easy for educators to annotate their slides using inking, text box, shapes, add unlimited whiteboard, randomly pick names, create and run interactive quizzes, gamify students learning journey via levels, badges, leader-board, etc — and do all these in PowerPoint ClassPoint is built to offer an accessible tool that enables every educator

to implement interactive technology in their class After classrooms have undergone and will continue to go through dramatic digital transformations, we want to make

it easy and accessible for teacher’s technological interactions to adapt as well Designed by Inknoe, a Singapore-born education technology company, ClassPoint

aims to help educators transform their teaching and learning as convenient and effortless as possible

3 Steps for implementation on Inknoe ClassPoint on PowerPoint

3.1 Install Classpoint

3.1.1 Compatibility

Before the installation can begin, teachers need to make sure their device is ClassPoint compatible We can use ClassPoint with Windows Windows 11, Windows 10 version 1703 or later, along with Microsoft PowerPoint desktop versions 2013, 2016, 2019, 2021, and Office 365 ClassPoint requires at least the NET Framework 4.7.2, or NET Framework 4.8 to function properly Additionally, ClassPoint requires the Visual Studio 2010 Tools for Office Runtime

Once you have made sure that our devices are compatible, you can proceed with the installation

3.1.2 Installing Classpoint

Before installing you need to download ClassPoint to our computer To download ClassPoint you can go to classpoint.io and fill out the form then click download to download ClassPoint to our computer.Once you’ve downloaded ClassPoint to our Windows device, you can start the installation by double-clicking the ClassPoint installer file It only takes a few seconds to complete the installation

Once it’s installed, you can open our PowerPoint app and you’ll see ClassPoint right in the toolbar

3.1.3 Register for a Classpoint account

After registering an account and receiving a 10-letters confirmation code, the

account name you have registered will be in the upper left corner of the screen:

3.2 Introducing the ClassPoint interface

Once ClassPoint has been downloaded and installed, you will see the Inknoe

ClassPoint Tab in the PowerPoint ribbon where you can create our ClassPoint

account Some of the ClassPoint features can be set up and managed from the

ClassPoint Tab in edit mode Then during our presentation, the ClassPoint Toolbar

and Class code will appear with all the ClassPoint tools to use during Slideshow

mode The functions of the various buttons on the toolbar are shown as below:

3.2.1 ClassPoint Tab

First you will see our Class List where you can add our participant list to ClassPoint,

so you can randomly draw names, award stars, or streamline their joining process Then you will see all the interactive questions When you click on an activity, the activity button will be added to our slide, and you will notice the side panel will open for you to customize our question

There are also some presentation tools you can manage in edit mode, as well as view

the Quiz Summary from Quiz Mode, Reset question responses, annotations, or

draggable objects, and open the settings

In Settings you can edit our profile, view our subscription status, and adjust our

slideshow options to hide the class code or toolbar, customize levels, and change our language

3.2.2 Toolbar

When you start our presentation, you get access to the ClassPoint toolbar The toolbar houses all our annotation tools and teaching tools to help in our presentation delivery and audience engagement throughout our presentation It also includes the Leaderboard, which you can open anytime

3.2.3 Class code -My Class

In the top right corner, you will see the class code displayed Click on it to open

the My Class window, where you can select our class, view participant information,

award stars, and more If students are joining our class on their device, they will use this code to join

3.2.4 Presentation Tools

ClassPoint’s Presentation Tools are added to our PowerPoint presentations to help

you elaborate on concepts, capture attention, and inspire active participation Once you are in presentation mode, these tools are available in the ClassPoint toolbar

3.2.4.1 Annotation tools

Focus our audience’s attention starting with the laser pointer; you can press down

to add disappearing ink and switch to the hidden spotlight using the ‘S’ key

Further aid audience understanding by adding notes on our slides with pens,

highlighters, text boxes, and shapes

And, adjust the pen thickness, color, and text or shape fill from the secondary menu

And to expand on any thought, instantly add a Whiteboard Background slide to

our presentation to continue explaining and visualizing concepts Choose from made whiteboard templates or customize them by adding our own whiteboard background

pre-3.2.4.2 Teaching tools

ClassPoint also has added teaching tools to improve our lessons and help manage our in class activities right in PowerPoint

Try using Draggable Objects to move our slide content around during our

presentations to interact with our teaching material or create an activity out of our slide In edit mode, select the objects you want to move around, then enable drag Then in presentation mode, click the Draggable Objects hand to freely move our objects

ClassPoint also includes other teaching tools including a timer or stopwatch,

an Embedded Browser so you can search and pin our favorite interactive learning sites, and a Name Picker so you can randomly select names in an exciting and

efficient way

Lastly, you can also run a Quick Poll and collect responses from every single

audience member if they are using their device to gather opinions, feedback, understanding checks, and more

3.3 Ask students Interactive Questions

3.3.1 Create our question slide

First, create a slide that you want to turn into an interactive activity by writing our

question Our slide is our question, so include the prompt, any images, and if you

are running a multiple choice question, include the answer choices

Now, to make the question interactive, click the activity button on the ClassPoint

tab You can move and resize the button on our slide

Once you add or click on our button, the side question panel will open where you

can set our question settings Each question type has its own customizable settings depending on the question For example, you can set the correct answer or answers for Multiple Choice and Fill in the Blank, you can require a caption for some media question types, and you can hide student names

Then set the Play Options Every question has the options to auto start the activity,

auto-minimize the activity responses window, or set an activity timer You can save any selections as the default play options

3.3.2 Collect live student responses

When you are live in presentation mode, our students can participate in our interactive questions by joining our class at www.classpoint.app and entering our class code and their name

Then, you can run our interactive questions by clicking on the activity button on our slide Watch the responses come in live, review them as class, insert them as a slide,

or download results depending on the question type All question submissions will automatically save to the button on our slide

3.4 Use ClassPoint’s Gamified Star Rewards

Turn our presentations and lessons into a gamified learning journey for participants

by awarding stars and revealing the Leader board

3.4.1 Create Saved Classes

To award student’s stars, create a class inside Class List in edit mode by adding our student names list Then during our presentation, open the My Class window to select and start a class

3.4.2 Award Stars

As our audience participates in our lesson, asks an excellent question, answers a questions right, volunteers, wins a game etc you can freely give out stars whenever you’d like from My Class You can also give out stars from Name Picker and any of the interactive questions, but students do not need to be using a device to earn stars

3.4.3 Levels, Badges, and Leader Board

As they collect stars, they will earn levels and achieve new badges And you can amp up the competitive fun by revealing the current and total class rank from the Leader board found on the Toolbar

You set the rules ClassPoint’s gamification system is free for you to choose what to give stars for whether that be in-person activities, participation points, or from ClassPoint’s interactive questions And inside Gamification Settings, you can customize our levels and the points needed to reach each level badge

4 Launching the lesson on Inknoe ClassPoint on PowerPoint

4.1 Multiple choice

Step 1

To make an interactive quiz in PowerPoint, you just need to add a ClassPoint question button You can turn any slide into an interactive quiz question Just make sure you add the question as text on our slide, and include MCQ answer choices

Step 2

Then, click on the Inknoe ClassPoint tab that is added to the PowerPoint ribbon up top To turn our slide into an interactive quiz question, click on the Multiple Choice icon, and a button will appear on our slide The question settings will open

on the right where you can set the number of options along with the correct

answer You can also set the Play Options of our choice, and that’s it You have now successfully turned our slide into an interactive quiz question

Want to use this as a formative assessment tool for students? Turn the MCQ question into auto-grading, Quiz Mode

Step 3

Now that we have created our interactive quiz in PowerPoint, then run it with our students When we begin our presentations, the class code will be in the top right-hand corner; this is the code our students will use to join our class You can use a random class code generated for each session, or you can create our own class code to use each time

Students can join our class on any device at www.classpoint.app by typing in the

class code and their name (They can also scan the QR code.) Once they are joined, they will see our slides on their device, and are ready to answer any interactive quiz questions

When we are ready to run our question, click on the question button to begin receiving responses from our students Students will be prompted to select an answer and submit

As responses come in, we will see them in real time on our screen If we want to keep the responses hidden until everyone has submitted, hide them with the eye icon,

or minimize the window (auto-minimizing is a Play option too.)

Step 4

When all of our students have answered, you can Close Submissions, and view the colorful bar graph displaying our audience responses Click the toggle to reveal the correct answer, and click on any of the answer choices to show which students submitted it You can also award stars

4.2 Create an Interactive Word Cloud

Creating a word cloud activity in PowerPoint can easily be done in only three steps When you are using ClassPoint, you can make these activities interactive so that you and our students can interact in real-time

Step 1: Creating Word Cloud Question

These Word Clouds can be added to any slide on our presentation To make it clear, add our word cloud button to a slide that states our question

For example, begin our presentation with an Ice Breaker question This will get students warmed up for the lesson and actively engaged while they are responding When our slide is complete, go to the Inknoe ClassPoint tab in the top ribbon This free interactive teaching PowerPoint add-in has many different features for you to use in our lessons For this example, we need to use the Word Cloud button

Move and resize the button once it appears on our slide On the side question panel, limit the number of submissions students can have

Step 2: Running our Word Cloud Question

To receive live student responses for our Word Cloud, head into presentation mode From here, students can join our class using the Class Code in the top right corner

To join, they can go to classpoint.app or scan the QR code that appears when you

click on the Class Code

When you are ready to begin our question, just click the button The question is now open and ready for submissions

Students just type and submit their answers The word cloud will begin to form in real-time and update as the submissions come in

For more information on Live status, minimizing the results window, and hiding the results, watch the video embedded above

When all the responses are in, Close the Submissions, and view our final Word Cloud

Step 3: Reviewing our Word Cloud Results

The word cloud looks great with all our student submissions However, you can dive deeper into the results to see which students have submitted which answer

By clicking on any word in the word cloud, you can view which students have submitted that specific word

In addition, highlight the top answer to see which word was submitted the most

To save this word cloud in our presentation, insert it as a slide Otherwise, just save the results for review later These results can be viewed by clicking on the green question button, or back in PowerPoint edit mode

In PowerPoint edit mode, view the results from the side question panel When all the review and analysis is complete, these results can be cleared

4.3 Short Answer Questions for the Whole Class

Mixing up the type of questions you ask students will keep them more engaged throughout your whole lesson To ask open-ended questions and receive responses from every single one of your students, use ClassPoint This way, every student is able to voice their opinion, and you have a detailed record of it, instead of only the few that raise their hands

Step 1 Create Question Slide

To add one of these questions to your presentation, start by creating a slide with the question on it Then, from the Inknoe ClassPoint ribbon, click on the Short Answer icon to add a question button on your slide

Step 2 Run the Question and Receive Responses

Once the button is added, we can begin our presentation and begin receiving

submissions from all our students Students will need to join your class by going

to classpoint.app on any browser and using the code in the top right corner of your presentation

When our students are joined and we are ready to begin the question, just click on

the button Students will be able to begin submitting their responses

Hide the responses so that students aren’t influenced by their classmates’ answers,

or minimize the whole results window to view the question slide full screen To go

back to the results window, click back into the button

If there are still a few students that need to submit their responses, check out the live

status view to see exactly which students they are With this feature, it is easy to

offer help to those students who may be struggling with their answers

Step 3 Review the Responses

Once all the students have submitted, we can Close the Submissions After the

question is closed, it cannot be reopened and no more responses can be submitted

A full view of all the responses will be shown We can “like” any of the answers

that really stand out to us, then filter the responses by only showing those that we have liked

Enlarge any of the answers, and ask that student to explain in a little more detail To

randomly choose a group to go over their answer, use the Pick-a-Name feature For further review and analysis after class, save these results as a slide, or click Save

for Review View the responses by clicking on the green question button, or back in

PowerPoint edit mode from the side question panel

4.4 Slide Drawing

There are many ways you can do a drawing activity in your classroom Students can draw with a pencil and paper, draw on a worksheet -printed or digital, or use an EdTech tool

With ClassPoint, an interactive presentation tool integrated with Microsoft PowerPoint, students can draw right on their teacher’s PowerPoint slide using their

own devices ClassPoint’s slide drawing activity enables teachers to send students

a slide for them to annotate or draw on, all within PowerPoint

4.4.1 Write vocabulary words

Have your students write on our slides Writing with slide drawing is simple fun,

and handwriting (slide drawing or on paper) helps the brain process information

We can ask them a question and have them write their answer, the vocabulary word

we are looking for or label a diagram

4.4.2 Complete a concept or visual aid

Have students draw on our slide or on a worksheet to complete a concept demonstrated through a visual aid such as an image, diagram, graph, or drawing For example, students can complete a life cycle in science or the timeline of a story They can draw arrows, an object, and or vocabulary words right on our slide to demonstrate their understanding

4.4.3 Answer a question by annotating

Use a student drawing tool to have students answer quiz questions They can complete matching questions, circle the correct multiple choice answer, draw on a

graph, or do a mini drawing to answer a question like draw how you feel, or the outcome of an equation

Instead of only clicking on their devices (or maybe shouting their answer), drawing using their finger, touch screen pen, or pencil and paper to answer questions can allow them to have a little fun with in-class quiz questions

4.5 Fill in the blanks

Unlike traditional Fill in the Blanks on pen and paper, ClassPoint’s Fill in the Blanks allows teachers to have participants submit single word answers right from PowerPoint Teachers are not only able to maximize full participation, but also get

to automatically grade submissions with every correct answer set for each question

Step 1 Preparation

Prepare Fill in the Blanks question, the click on Fill in the Blanks button

Step 2 Collecting answers

Start your lesson and click on “Fill in the Blanks” button and collect students’ answers

If we set the time, itself will finish or we can click on “Close submission” to finish

Step 3 Getting results

Step 4 Awarding stars to correct answers

II Practical background

1 The reality of applying Inknoe ClassPoint on PowerPoint at Nguyen Duc Mau high schools

a Teachers

We had made a survey about “The URGENCY and FEASIBILITY in using Inknoe ClassPoint software to increase the interaction for students in teaching the General Education 2018 program in 10th grade English” We used Google forms

We made the survey with teachers at Nguyen Duc Mau high school

To avoid misunderstanding, so we made the survey in Vietnamese

The link of the survey is: https://forms.gle/3Lbiv3zGfKHqHbbJA

The content of the survey is:

Question 1:

Question 2:

Question 3:

Question 4: