Active responding strategies improve learning and increase students' engagement. This study evaluated the effect of whiteboards, an effective and low-cost active responding strategy, on the students' perception of inclusion and frequency of their participation in class. All the 54 undergraduate students enrolled in a course on motivation went through the two conditions that comprised this study. In one section of each class, the students actively responded to their professor questions by writing on whiteboards; during the other section, they didn’t use boards but voluntarily raised their hands. Students reported a higher perception of inclusion during sections with whiteboards than in the sections without them. The frequency of their voluntary responses was higher in the sections without whiteboards.