3.1 nQuire for students – an application for doing research
nQuire for students can be accessed via the Exten(DT)² platform or independently through nQuire for students.
nQuire for students has been developed by The Open University in the UK for use by schools, teachers, and students. It is a password-protected environment where students can design, manage, pilot, and improve their own studies, while they can collect data from other students. Teachers can review studies created by students and provide feedback as to how these could be improved.
nQuire for students can help students develop basic research skills related to designing, piloting, and improving a research study. It can be used in ‘Stage 1: Empathise and Understand’, and in ‘Stage 4: Sharing and Feedback’ of the Exten(DT)² Digital Design Thinking Model.
If you need help using nQuire for students, watch these short videos:
Transcript: Video 2 How to create a mission on nQuire for students
How can students create a study for a design thinking project?
At first, type https://learn.nquire.org.uk/ here. Sign in using your User ID and Password. Click on an accordian sign. Click on ‘create mission’. Click on start. Type the name of a mission. Type the missing big question. What are you going to ask or trying to achieve with this mission? Type ‘mission briefing’ here. Outline your mission in full. Type ‘mission briefing’ here. Outline your mission in full. Upload an image relevant to your mission to attract the people to your mission. Acknowledge the source from where you have obtained this image.
Click on ‘build’ to add questions. Click on a pencil icon to add a question and a response type. Add a question here. Check the box if you want to make this question compulsory for participants to answer. Click on ‘add question’ to insert another question and select a response type. Follow the same process to add other questions. Select the appropriate Likert scale categories if the response type is Likert scale. Click on ‘enhance’ and add your ‘thank you message’. Click on ‘finish’.
Before launching, click on ‘pilot mission’ to get feedback from your teacher and classmates on your mission. Once you have received feedback on your mission, end the pilot and revise the questions and other elements as required. Once you are happy to launch your mission, click on ‘request launch’. Now your ‘mission launch’ is pending. It will be live once your teacher approves it.
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Video 2 How to create a mission on nQuire for students
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Transcript: Video 3 How to provide feedback on a pilot project
How to provide feedback on a pilot project.
Go to https://learn.nquire.org.uk. Sign in to your account using your learn.nquire credentials. Click on ‘Explore’. Click on this filter. Click on the pilot project on which you would like to provide feedback. Click here to go through the mission. Check the picture, mission brief, questions and selected response types and leave your comments in this box. Here we find that the picture is not matching to the theme of the mission. The word ‘actions’ is spelt incorrectly. The word ‘here’ is so vague. It needs to be explained further. The word ‘good’ in a question may lead survey participants to consider that the game this pupil has designed is good. So this question needs revision. Insert your comments here.
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Video 3 How to provide feedback on a pilot project
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Transcript: Video 4 How to make changes on a pilot project based on feedback
Revising a pilot project based on the feedback and launching it.
Go to https://learn.nquire.org.uk/ and sign in to your account using your credentials. Click on ‘pilot’. Click on a ‘pencil’ icon to make changes on your mission. Click here to change a picture. Click here to upload the relevant picture. Select the picture saved on your local drive. To make changes in questions, click on ‘build’. Click here to edit the questions. Correct the spelling. This word ‘here’ is quite vague, explain it. Make sure you check this option if you want to make this question compulsory for partcipants to answer.
The word ‘good’ leads the survey participants to consider your game positively. So revise this question. Change response type. The most suitable response type to your question is a Likert Scale. Reorder questions 3 and 4. Once you are done with all revisions, click here to launch your mission. Now, your mission is live.
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Video 4 How to make changes on a pilot project based on feedback
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Activity 4 Try nQuire for students
Timing: Allow around 15 minutes
You are a student taking part in the design thinking project:
Energy consumption at my school
Follow the below steps, to trial nQuire for students:
Log in to nQuire for students.
Create a class and add students. Video 5 details how (note the student username and password):
Transcript: Video 5 How to create a class and share student accounts − for teachers
How to create a class and share it with students.
Type https://learn.nquire.org.uk/ here. Sign in using your User ID and password. Click on this accordian sign. Click on school admin. Enter your class name here. Upload the picture of your class if you wish to do so (optional). Acknowledge the source from where you have obtained the image if you wish. Click on Create Class. Click on the class you have created. Keep clicking on this button to create user IDs for all students of your class. Default password is Password123! For all User IDs. Copy User IDs for sharing with students. Paste User IDs on e.g. a Word document and share them with students.
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Video 5 How to create a class and share student accounts − for teachers
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- Log in as a student so as to experience how students can create a mission in nQuire for students. While doing so, you can deliberately leave some errors in your mission, such as lack of clarity in questions, punctuation errors, etc. You can correct this error after getting teachers' feedback as explained in Step 5.
To familiarise yourself with nQuire, try a study another person has created:
Now create your own study about the issue you examine:
- i.Go to ‘Create Mission’ from the menu under your username.
- ii.Under the ‘Start’ dropdown menu, add a ‘Mission big question’ which is the main question your mission is aiming to find out.
- iii.Under ‘Mission image’, upload an image you have the rights to use – yours or someone else’s who has agreed to its use on this site.
- iv.Under the ‘Build’ dropdown menu, add at least three questions that would help you find out what other people are thinking/feeling about the problem. Try three different types of responses.
- v.Under the ‘Finish’ dropdown menu, click ‘Start pilot’ to check if your study works well in pilot mode.
- vi.To try out how to leave feedback to a mission created by your students, log in as a teacher using your teacher account, click on the accordian next to your profile, go to my school, click on class name and select the study, i.e. in pilot mode, and leave some feedback by adding comments to the study (see ‘Comments’ to the right-hand side of the study). In your feedback, consider:
- − Are the questions well formulated?
- − Can they be improved? If so, in what ways?
- − Are there any mistakes?
Watch Video 6 on how to provide feedback.
Transcript: Video 6 How to provide feedback on a pilot project
How to provide feedback on a pilot project.
Go to https://learn.nquire.org.uk. Sign in to your account using your learn.nquire credentials. Click on ‘Explore’. Click on this filter. Click on the pilot project on which you would like to provide feedback. Click here to go through the mission. Check the picture, mission brief, questions and selected response types and leave your comments in this box. Here we find that the picture is not matching to the theme of the mission. The word ‘actions’ is spelt incorrectly. The word ‘here’ is so vague. It needs to be explained further. The word ‘good’ in a question may lead survey participants to consider that the game this pupil has designed is good. So this question needs revision. Insert your comments here.
Thank you! For more information, visit https://extendt2.eu/
Video 6 How to provide feedback on a pilot project
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- Again log in as a student and revise the mission based on your comments which you gave as a teacher – see Video 7. Afterwards, end the pilot and request its launch.
Transcript: Video 7 How to make changes on a pilot project based on feedback
Revising a pilot project based on the feedback and launching it.
Go to https://learn.nquire.org.uk/ and sign in to your account using your credentials. Click on ‘pilot’. Click on a ‘pencil’ icon to make changes on your mission. Click here to change a picture. Click here to upload the relevant picture. Select the picture saved on your local drive. To make changes in questions, click on ‘build’. Click here to edit the questions. Correct the spelling. This word ‘here’ is quite vague, explain it. Make sure you check this option if you want to make this question compulsory for partcipants to answer.
The word ‘good’ leads the survey participants to consider your game positively. So revise this question. Change response type. The most suitable response type to your question is a Likert Scale. Reorder questions 3 and 4. Once you are done with all revisions, click here to launch your mission. Now, your mission is live.
Thank you! For more information, visit https://extendt2.eu/
Video 7 How to make changes on a pilot project based on feedback
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- Now, log in as a teacher, go through the mission and approve it if you are happy with the revisions made – see Video 8.
Transcript: Video 8 How a teacher approves a mission and how a student share it with other survey participants
How a teacher approves a mission and how students can share it further.
This is what students see after they request to launch their missions. Now, as a teacher, you need to sign in to your account. Click on an accordian, and go to My School. Click on your class. You see that this mission needs approval. You can directly approve this mission by clicking on this tick icon if you have already checked this mission. If you haven’t checked it yet, please do so by clicking here. Click further here. Click on ‘Add your contribution’. Check the mission brief, questions and other details. If this mission needs modification, then click on ‘Reject Launch’. If this mission is good to go, click on ‘Approve Launch’. The mission is live now.
Now, the student needs to sign in to nQuire for students to share it further with their classmates. Click here. This is your launched mission. Click here. Your mission is live now. Copy this link and share it with the survey participants.
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Video 8 How a teacher approves a mission and how a student share it with other survey participants
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Reflections on nQuire for students
Could you explain how you would use this application with your students after working through this activity? What would you ask students to do using nQuire for students? What would it be your role in the process?
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Comment
You can use nQuire for students in many ways – as a starting point it is good to ask students to try a study you’ve created for them and ask them to share their thoughts.
Next you can ask them to create their own study, after watching some of the videos above, or show them how to create a study directly. Students could then take part in a study created by other students or collect data for their study by asking other students to take part in it.
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