AMPLE

An offline app for teachers to conduct in-class assessments very easily

AMPLE Teacher App is an offline standalone app which can be used for conducting in-class assessment using AmritaCards.

Amrita Cards are simple, cheap and scalable paper based in-class assessment tools used by students to answer multiple choice questions. With the help of a mobile app, teachers can scan answers of students and provide immediate results.

How do Amrita Cards work?

Please use below link to download the cards and print them on paper (preferably to be stuck on paper boards).

Amrita Cards has to be given to all students with their roll number embedded in it. Each Amrita Card consists of a pattern which can be recognized by this app using Image Recognition technology to know the student and their answer response.

Teacher has to post multiple choice question(s) on the board or a presentation device, all students has to be requested to raise their respective Amrita Card with their answer option (A/B/C/D) on top.

Once the class raises the Amrita cards, the teacher would scan their Amrita cards using the AMPLE Teacher App to get an immediate result as to know how many students got the right answer and how many did not answer correctly. This can give a true representation of students’ understanding about a particular topic.

*Amrita Cards: Insights for better teaching*

Along with providing Active Learning for students, Amrita Cards also provide a lot of insights for better teaching. For instance, in some topics most of the students may perform well and there may not be too much space for confusions. This could be the case for basic and fundamental concepts that students need to remember.

In topics that need critical thinking and application, students could get confused and teachers may not even identify the fact that students may not be getting the topics as desired. Amrita Cards will provide real time insights into how many students are lagging behind some critical topics. Teachers need not wait till final examinations to understand that students are lagging. Often final exams may not be the right time to evaluate student understanding. That might just be too late.

We recommend teachers to use Amrita Cards every 15 to 20 minutes in a class of 60 minutes. At least, the cards must be used once at the end of the class, so that we know how many students were paying attention. Also, since all the scores of students are saved in a central server, it is possible to carry over these scores to continuous evaluation metrics of the students.