# Make Your Active Learning Space More Effective

Fully realize the potential of your active learning space. You need tools that enable small
groups of students to capture their work, share it with the class, and participate in productive
discussions.

Visual Classrooms has been used in Active Learning Classrooms across North America and is
designed to facilitate any physical setup and technology solution. Tablets, SMART Boards,
terminals, or BYOD - it doesn't matter. Our cloud-based, all HTML5 platform just works.

# Optimize Your Workflow

Visual Classrooms was designed and tested to optimize the active learning workflow.

- Enhance collaboration and team-based learning
- Drive student engagement and participation
- Promote faculty interaction and communication with students
- Support instructor-led changes in pedagogy

#### Documenting Work

In active learning classrooms student generate a variety of learning artifacts:
sketches, algorithms, diagrams, talking points. You need a persistent, _flexible_ platform that
can capture and display these creative outputs.

**How We Help** \- Our [media\savvy](/content/about/mediasavvy/index.html) all HTML5 platform enables any browser on any device to easily capture work product
students are most comfortable creating. The design of the platform enables the instructor to easily
monitor each groups progress and provide appropriate guidance and feedback.

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#### Leading Discussions

During class, you want to lead a whole group discussion. Going one-by-one through
the groups or having students re-draw images/diagrams at the front of the room is inefficient.

**How We Help** \- By displaying groups' ideas in the same shared, virtual space, you can lead
discussions based on themes, commonalities, and differences. This enables students to take ownership
of and demonstrate what they are learning.

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#### Tracking Projects

ALC's often implement use case analysis or small labs in class. Scaffolding the collection of
student work and sharing it amongst the class is challenging.

**How We Help** \- Our [research](/content/about/story/index.html)
uncovered a need for instructors to scaffold the learning process to provide the incentive for
students to take an active role in their own learning. Set up activities to track groups’ progress
and enable cross group interaction.

“The great thing about Visual Classrooms is that every student’s brain is active when
they are thinking
about a question and posting their answer as opposed to listening to me ask questions.
It is really good at getting everyone to participate and think. And I have immediate feedback- I see when
students get it
and when they don't.”

Sameer Bhatgardner - Dawson University

### ALC Demo Video

See how a Biology classroom uses Visual Classrooms to support real-time, group based work and discussion.

Active Learning Classrooms Demo from Visual Classrooms on Vimeo

[Watch on Vimeo](https://vimeo.com/261505240?fl=pl&fe=vl)

## Make Any Room More Effective

Students contribute as groups and everyone gets “credit” in our research based
[analytics](/content/about/instructors/index.html).