Student Response Systems Like Socrative

  Socrative is an online student response system that allows teachers to engage students with educational interactive games and exercises. Teachers can create a variety of exercises, exit tickets, quizzes, and games. It is an extension of the classroom, where students can connect from their smartphones, laptops and tablets to their teacher's online classroom. Upon registration to Socrative, the teacher is provided with a virtual room number. This is the only information students need to log in into Socrative and begin an activity. 

Activity

Outcome: Create a class, build assessments and interact with participants.

1. Open Socrative and create an account, or log-in to an existing account
2. Navigate to the My Account section > select My Profile.  Then select Training Tour.
3. Explore the Single Question Activities (Multiple Choice, True/False, Short Answer) section
   • Create a Single Question Activity
   • Using at least one secondary device, practice inputting data as if you were a student (you can use any web-enabled device to input data)
4. Take a screenshot of the single-question activity
5. Explore the Create, Edit and Import Quizzes section
   • Select Create a Quiz
   • Input a quiz name.  Then add at least five (5) questions (Multiple Choice, Short Answer, feedback, etc.)
   • Save the quiz
   • Return to the Main Screen
6. Take a screenshot of the 5 question quiz
7. Explore the Quiz-Based activities
   • Select Start a Quiz
   • Select the quiz you created previously, select assessment options (student/teacher paced, randomize, disable, ...)
   • Using at least one secondary device, practice* taking a quiz as if you were a student (you can use any web-enabled device to input answers)
   • After completing the practice quiz, review the report generated from Socrative

Take a screenshot of the assessment results (this will be a spreadsheet you can open in Excel or Google Drive)

There are many advantages and disadvantages of student response systems like Socrative.

Advantages:

• Real time interactive class assestment tool
• Provides anonymous feedback to the teacher
• Easy to format exercises, quizzes, games, reports and exit tickects
• No students registration required
• Can be used an any device

Disadvantages:

• Students response are not saved on server
• Students can accidently hit the wrong answer and not make a correction
• Students must do questions and can not return or skip question
• Not all students have a laptop, tablet or smart phone
• Prone to technical delays