Socrative
Socrative is a web-based student response system that provides teachers with instant, visual feedback on student learning - both formative and summative.
Teachers can use Socrative on the fly, writing a question on their white board and allowing students to choose between multiple answers, or by having students type their response. Responses are tied to student names - though you do rely on students typing their real name as they don't have set accounts - so the teacher can see who "got it" and who didn't, and have that feedback saved for later review.
Teachers can also enter questions, quizzes, or even tests into Socrative in advance. This is primarily how I used Socrative with my classes last year. I entered every social studies test for all four grades that I teach. Test-taking on Socrative was great because students were able to get immediate feedback on their tests, although teachers can turn this feature off. I was able to get instant feedback and results for everything on their test that was not an open-ended response, which saved a ton of time grading.
I haven't been using Socrative as much this year, as my district purchased licenses to LinkIt for benchmark data collection. Because of the PARCC-like test features LinkIt has, I decided to move all of my tests over to LinkIt instead of Socrative. But, all in all, Socrative is a great tool for teachers looking to reduce their paper usage and implement technology.
Teachers can use Socrative on the fly, writing a question on their white board and allowing students to choose between multiple answers, or by having students type their response. Responses are tied to student names - though you do rely on students typing their real name as they don't have set accounts - so the teacher can see who "got it" and who didn't, and have that feedback saved for later review.
Teachers can also enter questions, quizzes, or even tests into Socrative in advance. This is primarily how I used Socrative with my classes last year. I entered every social studies test for all four grades that I teach. Test-taking on Socrative was great because students were able to get immediate feedback on their tests, although teachers can turn this feature off. I was able to get instant feedback and results for everything on their test that was not an open-ended response, which saved a ton of time grading.
I haven't been using Socrative as much this year, as my district purchased licenses to LinkIt for benchmark data collection. Because of the PARCC-like test features LinkIt has, I decided to move all of my tests over to LinkIt instead of Socrative. But, all in all, Socrative is a great tool for teachers looking to reduce their paper usage and implement technology.
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