Using Answer Garden

Level 2 Tool No data is shared: Access to this tool does not require any user to share information about themselves

Grades:   Primary   Intermediate   Middle   High

AnswerGarden is a real time audience participation or survey tool for assessment, brainstorming, and data collection.  Users set up their answer garden with an open ended question and provide participants with the link.  As participants answer in 20 or 40 characters or less, their responses are instantly populated on the screen in a word cloud format.  The most common answer appears bigger on the screen.

You must load unsafe scripts (Chrome) or show all content (Internet Explorer) to see embedded answer gardens:

1. Open the site www.answergarden.ch
2. Click on "create answer garden" or on the + 
3.  Type in your question
4.  Go through the options and select the ones appropriate for you
5.  Click "create"
6.  You will share the URL given to you with students

A silent tutorial for using Answer Garden

AnswerGardens can be used for: 

• A getting to know you activity
• Quick every pupil responses
• Crowd sourcing answers to simple math questions
• Brainstorming
• Surveying students about prior knowledge