Peer Review

AnswerGarden App for iOS

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Reviewed:: Feb 3, 2026 by Faculty Development

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Overview:

AnswerGarden is a social response app for classrooms and conferences. It allows you to pose a question or topic for the audience to answer/comment on. The instant result shows an overview of answers ranked in popularity to use for further analysis or group discussion.

Type of Material:

Reference Material

Recommended Uses:

This app could be used in the classroom to promote active class discussion and engagement.

Technical Requirements:

Requires iOS 7.1 or later. The app is no longer available for earlier OS as of February 29, 2024.

Identify Major Learning Goals:

Learners will actively collaborate via the application to develop group discussion.
Learners will use responses from the collaborative poll to further learning and analysis of the topic.

Target Student Population:

This resource is targeted towards educators and students from kindergarten through higher education.

Prerequisite Knowledge or Skills:

None

Content Quality

Rating:
Strengths:: The idea behind the app is innovative and helpful for the classroom.
Concerns:: The app is no longer free, and the app store rating is 1 star out of 5.

Potential Effectiveness as a Teaching Tool

Rating:
Strengths:: The app is advertised as functional and seems to have been so at some point.
Concerns:: The app is outdated and inaccessible to the audience.

Ease of Use for Both Students and Faculty

Rating:
Strengths:: There are no strengths.
Concerns:: The app is inaccessible, the app store ratings are very low, and though advertised as free when it was originally added to MERLOT, the app now costs $2.99.

Other Issues and Comments:: This app does not qualify as OER material and needs revision for accessibility.
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