What is Socrative?

Socrative is an interactive web-based student-response system that can help teachers spark conversation and learning through user-created polls and quizzes.

Students access questions via a Room code and answers register immediately on the teacher's computer as the students submit their responses on almost any device. When everyone has responded, teachers can display the results using the "How did we do?" button.

Teachers can create quizzes, quick questions, and exit slips that allow for multiple-choice, true/false, and one-sentence-response questions that can be graded with feedback for each student.

In addition to those basic assessment strategies, students can team up to play Space Race, a collaborative activity that allows student teams to answer questions as quickly as they can; the teacher can access real-time results of this race as well as determine student teams. At the end, teachers can see quiz data and download it through an Excel sheet or email it for further planning.

The Tasks

EARN THAT BADGE:

Create a Socrative account at http://socrative.com/
Create a formative assessment for your class.
Share the results of the quiz.
Take a screenshot* of the assessment and results to share using the Google Form provided below.

Ways to Use Socrative in the Classroom:

Socrative allows teachers to easily create polls, quizzes and other educational exercises for their class and monitor their students’ response and progress in real time. It has multiple uses and benefits which various teachers have shared to make it an effective tool for classroom.

Use Socrative to gather anonymous questions and answers.
Use Socrative to administer short quizzes.
Use Socrative to host a “space race” in your classroom.

Here is a list of ways in which Socrative is being used for formative assessments with students:

True or False Questions
Multiple Choice Questions
Short Response
Visual Data (Bar graphs and visual short responses)
Exit Ticket
Pre-Assessment
Post-Assessment
Create Short Quizzes
Upload Pre-made Quizzes
Reflection
Collect Background Knowledge
Quick Check for Understanding
Voting on best responses

*Instructions for taking screenshots on a Chromebook:

Full screen screenshot: Ctrl+windows shift button (looks like a rectangle with two lines next to it; above the 6 key).

Partial screenshot: Ctrl+Shift+windows shift button (looks like a rectangle with two lines next to it; above the 6 key). Click and drag around the area you'd like to grab.

Screenshots will be sent to your Downloads file (small blue circular icon with a file folder inside found in the apps menu -- click the small circle icon in far bottom left corner of Chromebook screen to find the Downloads file).

GET THAT BADGE!

Create a formative assessment for your class. Share the results of the quiz. Take a screenshot* of the assessment and results to share using the Google Form provided below.

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