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Many of you will know that we are migrating Xorro services to Amazon, in response to growing customer demands on capacity and responsiveness. Amazon's AWS cloud services bring great scalability and robustness to Xorro, which means that those assessments, polls, competitions and collaboration ses...

This weekend Xorro's services will go off line from 9pm NZST on Friday night (30 May), through 3am Saturday morning (31 May). In this time, no Xorro-Q services will be accessible (either for Facilitators or for participants). This is to facilitate switchover from our current host providers, to th...

It has never been easier to instantly assess your students' ability to interpret an image (a map, diagram, photo, x-ray etc). Xorro-Q's "Clickable Image" question type allows you to select and import an image; click to draw "hotspots" on the image; optionally decide on scores to allocate for studen...

Patrick Dodd's marketing class at Unitec has been using Xorro-Q for a semester now. We visited the class to film the use of thhis solution to enable team-based learning. After class, we we were approached by a number of Patrick's students who wanted to share their views on how Xorro-Q has contribu...

With Xorro's latest Q-Launcher, history is displayed along the foot of the Launcher window. Prepared activities can be accessed from here and questions selectively launched to the audience at any time. The presenter ("Facilitator") can choose when to close the question, view results etc, based on p...

On July 30th, Massey University’s Business Student Group brought together four economics experts, including former Reserve Bank governor Dr Don Brash, to discuss some of the biggest economic issues New Zealand currently faces. Associate Professor Russell Gregory-Allen and Dr Sasha Molchanov...

Instructor Resources on using student response solutions such as Xorro-Q Following is a selection of resources gathered from various sources to help educators and instructors in their use of student response solutions and practice in the classroom. Videos Research articles Guides &a...

The latest Q-Launcher for Windows takes the next big step for real-time sessions: Up until now, activities prepared in advance (using QF.xorro.com) could only be run from the QF site. Now, the desktop Q-Launcher allows the Facilitator to select pre-prepared activities (such as quizzes, surveys...

From early June, Xorro-Q customers have been able to add images into their activities. All question types support images. For now, images are associated with questions only (we do not yet support images as options in multi-choice questions). When creating (or editing) a question in your QF site, ...

So... you make presentations to audiences. Wouldn't it be great if there was a simple, instant way to involve your audience in your questions, using their own cellphones, tablets etc? Especially if along the way you identify the individuals, their interests and needs, collecting opinions, understa...

After a flurry of design and test work, we have finally launched the new-look Q-Launcher in April. The new look Q-Launcher improves on the previous design as follows: Improved aethetic design and layout for more intuitive use; Vertical toolbar instead o...

Since April 2013, Xorro-Q subscribers have been able to share their activities with colleagues within the same institution. To use this new feature, when creating or editing an activity just select "share". This will place a copy of the selected activity, into the ...

Feedback on options selected by participants in multi-choice questions, has been made available to subscribers in April 2013. When editing a multi-choice question in an activity, the facilitator can create text feedback on each each option. This will be displayed t...

Beginning April 2013, Xorro-Q subscribers can associate scores with questions, enabling automatic scoring for activities. At this time scoring options are available for all multi-choice question types, but not yet for open-text and for numeric response questions. Wh...

Xorro -Q's activity server now offers subscribers a widening range of question types. Xorro -Q's original question type selections include multiple-choice question (single selection or multiple selection) and open text answer questions. Since late March 201...

1.8 is the latest upgrade to the dynamic white boarding software 2Touch Workbook. 1.8 has an enhanced focus on joining together the users of the Workbook universe via the newly launched Workbook community as well as a range of new and enhanced canvas features. To download the latest version head ...

The Workbook Resources website is the first step in creation of an online community for not just Workbook and Xorro users but eventually users of a variety of IWB/presentation software to share resources. The resources website is free for you to use and provides for easy downloading and ...

Xorro-Q at the eLearning event Earlier this year 2Touch had the chance to showcase the all new Xorro Q BOD (bring your own device) response solution at the eLearning event in Auckland The event Each year the NZATD (New Zealand Association for Training and Development) hosts a daylong ...

Use the Xorro-Q button in Workbook to instantly quiz your audience or students, integrating responses into your activity. You’ll find the button at the end of the dynamic tools toolbar. Pressing it presents a choice of six types of activity: four “instant” multi-choice questions, an “instant”...

The Interactive whiteboard can be a powerful tool to engage groups of people collaboratively. However it is limited in its capacity to simultaneously receive the active input of more than (at most) three or four persons at once. Entire class participation is therefore difficult to achieve. ...