Socrative
Description:
Socrative is a cloud-based
student response system developed in 2010 by Boston-based graduate school
students. It allows teachers to create simple quizzes that students can take
quickly on laptops – or, more often, via classroom tablet computers or their
own smartphones. That makes these devices a more robust replacement for special
purpose “clickers.” “I can assess on the fly and best of all, students can use
their portable media to provide me with near instant feedback,” writes one
teacher blogger. “Clickers do this but the benefit of Socrative is that
students do not have to buy anything and I do not have to spend a lot of time
developing quizzes using any certain format.
Price:
Allows you to create graphics of any size, and
has a built in free “infographics” art section designed specifically for this
use.
Uses
- Quizzes
- Allow open-ended short responses.
- Activities can either be teacher-paced (for use during a classroom discussion) or student-paced (for use as a more traditional class-end “exit ticket” or quiz).
- There’s also a gaming element: the “Space Race” feature can set up a quiz so that teams of students can compete against one another to launch rockets into space.
- Results can be displayed live in the classroom to facilitate discussion (with student identity kept anonymous) – a “nifty way of using formative assessment to further students’ learning” – while teachers can access detailed classroom and student data on their own devices.
- Socrative quizzes can also be shared with other teachers; as of mid-2013.
- Socrative had built up a library of 315,000+ quizzes that any teacher could use.
Platform:
Online or Android, but it is functional
in your iPad browser window Student response formative assessment system for use
with laptops, tablets, smartphones
App:
https://socrative
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