Figures & data
Figure 1 The process of enabling student to student communication without divulging personal mobile phone numbers by directing text messages to a student’s phone by mail filtering rules based on student registration number. This was used following a peer-assessment exercise so that students could receive their score as soon as the marking process had ended
Table 1 Possible voting options for a three-question quiz during a mass spectrometry lecture. Students text the appropriate tag to the TxtTools number. These create labels for the incoming text messages. Comparing the labels for each question generates a pie chart of responses
Figure 2 Wordle of main themes texted by students in the introductory chemistry module during semester one 2009/10. Larger words represent more frequently texted themes. The words ‘chemistry’, ‘test’ and ‘tutorial’ were the three most frequently texted words during semester
Figure 3a Typical question used for in-class voting exercise and the options that should be used in voting (MSA, MSB, MSC, MSD)
Figure 3b The pie-chart output produced by the TxtTools interface is displayed on a webpage and is shown in the boxed area above
Figure 4 Graph showing student responses to the use of in class voting using text messaging by responding to a number of qualitative statements
