Dyknow: More Than Just Device Monitoring

Dyknow can be used by teachers to increase student engagement during class by measuring student understanding and conducting brief Q&A sessions.

The Question Bank and Check for Understanding features enable teachers to easily send out a quick question to students to engage them in learning or send out a quick poll to gauge how well students are understanding the lesson.

To use Dyknow’s Question Bank, teachers can navigate to the “Question Bank” tab and create a new question or use a previously saved question to send to students. These questions can be answered in multiple-choice, true/false, or yes/no format. Many teachers use Dyknow questions to send out a quick quiz during class, get students to share input on a topic, or for a fun poll like where to have recess.

Using the Check for Understanding feature for engagement is just as simple. Teachers can navigate to the checkbox icon on the right of their screen and the Student Understanding panel will appear. From there, teachers need only to click the “Request” button, and the Student Understanding poll will appear on student screens asking them to respond with how well they are understanding the material. These responses will appear as a pie chart so teachers can easily measure student understanding.

Communicating with students through devices during class is important to teachers who are teaching remote, hybrid, and in-person. 

With Dyknow, teachers can easily communicate with students by sending a message to one, all, or a few students during class. Teachers need only to navigate to Dyknow’s Send a Message feature, choose a pre-populated message or write a custom message, and choose which students to send it to. 

In order to send the message as a notification without locking student devices, just select “No” on the Lock Student Device toggle.

The most important part of technology integration is understanding how students are using devices during class and how devices are impacting instruction overall. 

Are devices detracting from instruction? Enhancing it? Transforming it? 

Dyknow can help teachers answer these questions by using the Class History feature to review student device activity after class. Teachers can review what sites and apps students have been using during class, as well as if they have been trying to access blocked sites. Filtering these analytics by date, class, or student can help teachers drill down into how devices are impacting instruction overall.