--- title: Text Feedback Will Change Your Class description: Text Feedback Will Change Your Class image: https://blog.lern.com/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/text-feedback-300x169-1.jpg --- [LERN Club Sign-In](http://beta.lern.org/club/) [![lern-logo.png](https://blog.lern.com/hubfs/June-folder/lern-logo.png "lern-logo.png")](http://lern.org) ** # Articles # Text Feedback Will Change Your Class Mar 19, 2015 9:43:53 AM by Katie | [![text feedback](https://blog.lern.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/text-feedback-300x169-1.jpg?width=300&height=169&name=text-feedback-300x169-1.jpg)](https://blog.lern.com/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/text-feedback-1.jpg)“Text feedback will change your class,”  Jared Campbell of Florida Institute of Technology in Melbourne, Florida, told the Third Annual Faculty Development Conference participants. Text feedback - - texting the instructor during the class - - is one of the big ways to engage Gen Y and Gen Z in face-to-face classes, he noted. The texts can be student: *Responses to a poll or survey *Answers to a quiz question *Open ended short comments *Ideas that the students themselves generate *Feedback on a specific activity or concept. Text feedback engages students to a much higher degree, creating motivation, interaction, and increasing learning during class time. Texting answers to a quiz question is one way to increase formative or ongoing frequent assessments, which research has been shown to enhance learning.  Because response do not identify the individual student, texting is a way for students to “painlessly fall on the ground” in their learning, said Campbell. “Texting is also a way to deepen the discussion in class,” relayed Campbell.       ### LATEST NEWS Faculty: Three big milestones for 2016 William Draves Considering adding UGotClass courses to your offerings? Learn more today! Kayla M Pettis What’s Next for Faculty Development Katie Text Feedback Will Change Your Class Katie How to Beat “I Can’t Do It” Katie [Tweets by @LernUpdates](https://twitter.com/LernUpdates) [LERN Club Sign-In](http://beta.lern.org/club/)