About ResponDog

About us

ResponDog is an audience response application that poses your quiz questions or seeks opinions from your audience. Originally designed for teaching college classes, ResponDog is also great for presenters and trainers working with a group of business professionals. Keeping your audience active and engaged with the presentation is important. Polling helps, and ResponDog makes it easy.

ResponDog works with your learning management system (LMS) and returns participant scores back to the LMS grade book automatically. The instructor/presenter can also review the individual responses of each participant.

Learning Management System Integration

ResponDog is certified by 1EdTech to be conformant with the LTI Advantage Complete standard for learning tools interoperability. You can find the current 1EdTech certification document here. The certification ensures that you can configure compatible learning management systems with an LTI link to ResponDog. This allows your LMS to establish a trusted relationship with ResponDog without having to maintain any usernames and passwords. ResponDog reports the assignment scores back to the LMS grade book automatically. Your LMS administrator can register your LMS with ResponDog at our LTI registration page.

Web Site Accessibility

ResponDog is committed to providing accessible content for its users. The site is in substantial compliance with The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) as measured by Level AA of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0, which is our target level of compliance. If you experience difficulty accessing any ResponDog resource, or if you have questions or suggestions regarding accessibility of our site, please let us know through the ResponDog Feedback Page or by using the contact information at the bottom of this page.

FERPA Compliance

The services provided by ResponDog are fully compliant with all applicable provisions of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) (20 U.S.C. § 1232g; 34 CFR Part 99). We receive user data as a School Official under FERPA, either directly from students as a result of completing ResponDog polls or from the school or educational institution through the LTI connection to the school's learning management system (LMS). User data are processed solely for educational purposes and are shared back to the school LMS through the LTI connection. ResponDog does not otherwise process, store, sell or share any student records or personally identifiable information.

Open Educational Resource

ResponDog is an Open Educational Resource. The software is freely available under the terms of the GNU General Purpose License, version 3. All of the content on this site is copyrighted by our parent company, ChemVantage LLC, and is licensed freely under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY).

Powered by Google Cloud

ResponDog is hosted by Google App Engine and Google Cloud Firestore, so we are able to provide high quality, reliable and massively scalable service at very low cost.

Pricing

1. ResponDog is completely free for educational use at nonprofit schools and universities.
2. Commercial and personal accounts are $19/month for each instructor/presenter after a 30-day free trial period.
3. Poll participants are always free.

Privacy Certification

ResponDog has earned the 1EdTech Trusted App Data Privacy Certification for its Privacy Policy and practices, which protect users' personally identifiable information (PII). The registration number is IMSP1ce2023W1. Users connect to ResponDog through your institution's LMS, and ResponDog returns all user scores to the LMS, so we don't store any user PII on our servers. That way, your information is 100% secure.

Privacy Policy

ResponDog protects its users' privacy to the maximum extent that allows the site to function as designed.

• Personally identifiable information (PII) - Except for LMS administrators, instructors and facilitators who contact ResponDog directly (e.g., to establish an account or provide feedback), ResponDog does not store any user PII. ResponDog does not process, collect or store any user credit card or financial information whatsoever.
• Digital Tracking - ResponDog does not use cookies, web analytics, web beacons, pixel tags or any other type of digital tracking devices. We do not store information about IP addresses, locations, or browser information of our users. We do not display any advertisements or enter into any service agreements with third party advertisers.
• User IDs - During each user's session, ResponDog issues a secure token that is linked to an opaque user ID to ensure both privacy and security. For LTI users, this ID is provided by the learning management system (LMS). LTI is a secure messaging and communications standard developed by 1EdTech (formerly IMS Global Learning Solutions). LTI connects students and instructors with educational service providers. ResponDog is a certified LTI provider. Users who enter ResponDog through our home page are assigned a random ID number and are informed that they are participating as anonymous users.
• Data and Information Collected - ResponDog collects and stores data and information about the quizzes, homework assignments and practice exams that are downloaded by our users, including customized assignments, individual responses to question items, assignment scores and timestamps. All data and information transmitted to or from ResponDog are protected by TLS/SSL encryption while in transit, and are stored in encrypted form on Google Cloud Datastore servers while at rest. All user data are solely owned by the user and may be deleted upon request to admin@chemvantage.org.
• How We Use Data and Information that We Collect - For LTI users, individual user scores, data and information are available to the user, the instructor (as identified by the LMS) and to the LMS administrators. User scores may be reported by ResponDog directly back to the LMS grade book via the LTI Outcomes Service if this service is supported by the LMS.
  For all users, including anonymous users entering the site through our home page, we use scores, responses and user comments/feedback to improve the quality of individual question items in the site as well as site navigation and user experience. We also use timestamps to automatically delete user data and LMS accounts after one year of inactivity.
• Information That We Share - We will access, use, preserve, and/or disclose user information if we reasonably believe it necessary to satisfy a valid and legally enforceable warrant, subpoena, court order, law or regulation, or other judicial or administrative order. Otherwise, ResponDog does not and will not share any user data or information with anyone except the user's LMS and with instructors and administrators who are identified by the LMS through the LTI interface.
• Google reCAPTCHA - ResponDog uses the Google reCAPTCHA tool on its LTI registration page to detect bots and prevent spam and abuse. To register your LMS with ResponDog you must accept the Google reCAPTCHA Terms of Service and the Google API Terms of service. This is not required of users who are accessing ResponDog resources through the LTI interface (i.e., students and instructors) or users who enter ResponDog through the home page anonymously.

Terms and Conditions of Use

• The ResponDog software is owned by CHEMVANTAGE LLC
• LIMITED LIABILITY.
  CHEMVANTAGE LLC IS WITHOUT LIABILITY FOR DAMAGES CAUSED OR ALLEGEDLY CAUSED BY ANY FAILURE OF PERFORMANCE, ERROR, OMISSION, INTERRUPTION, DELETION, DEFECT, VIRUS, DELAY IN OPERATION OR TRANSMISSION, INACCURATE INFORMATION, COMMUNICATIONS LINE FAILURE, THEFT OR DESTRUCTION OF OR UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO, ALTERATION OF, OR USE OF RECORDS, WHETHER FOR BREACH OF CONTRACT, TORTUOUS BEHAVIOR, NEGLIGENCE, OR UNDER ANY OTHER CAUSE OF ACTION.
• NO WARRANTEE
  We are committed to providing the best possible software, service and customer experience. If you have a question or problem using the site, please let us know immediately, and we will do our best to correct any errors or software bugs. However, ResponDog software as a service is provided without any warrantee whatsoever. All ResponDog subscription fees are non-refundable.
• GOVERNING LAW
  These Terms and Conditions of Use and any dispute arising between ChemVantage and its users shall be governed by the laws of the State of Maryland, U.S.A.
• YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF THESE TERMS
  By using this Site, you signify your acceptance of this policy and terms of service. If you do not agree to this policy, please do not use our Site. Your continued use of the Site following the posting of changes to this policy will be deemed your acceptance of those changes.
• CONTACTING US
  If you have any questions about these Terms and Conditions, our Privacy Policy, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this site, please contact us at:
  Phone: +1 (801)243-8242
  Email: admin@chemvantage.org
• These terms and conditions were last updated on March 16, 2023.