Review of Socrative.com

What's Socrative.com?

Socrative is a simple, dynamic online student response system that can help teachers spark conversation and learning through user-created polls and quizzes. With this free software, teachers can engage their classrooms through a series of educational games and exercises via smartphones, tablets, and laptops. It is a student response system, so the only person in the class who needs an account is the teacher. Students can easily join a room without having to log in. As I mentioned the teacher creates the room and gets a room number, the students will join using that room number. Once everyone is in the room the teacher can ask questions and the students can respond in many different ways. Basically, you can manage the quiz by sign up to make a quiz, or take a quiz by clicking student login on Socrative.com.

 

How Can Teachers Use It?

Once a quiz is created in Socrative, you can then administer it at a controlled pace or allow students to go at their own pace. Teachers can display the class's responses to multiple-choice, true/false, or short-answer questions. In addition to polling students on a single question, teachers can also create longer quizzes, which the software grades. If you want to provide immediate feedback, including explanations for wrong answers, there's an option to do so.  Quiz results land in an Excel spreadsheet, which you can download or receive via email.

How Can Students Use It?

For a student, they need to go to m.socrative.com. When they get to the website it will ask for a room number. When a student joins a class, this is what they will see until the teacher picks a type of question to ask. When a question is asked, there is no question to read just choices or a place to type in their response. That is pretty much it for students. It's very simple and easy to utilize as a student.

Just like other softwares, there are some considerable pros and cons of Socrative.com.

Pros:

• Easy to use, very simple and flexible that users just need to sign up & no student registration is required.
• Great for review and quick assessments, and students can see their grades right away if they are using quizzes.

• Gives teachers the option to create quality quiz-type content.

• It helps a quiz-happy teacher & go paperless.

• It works on most any Web- or app-enabled device.

• Can import and share others' quizzes by inserting their SOC-#.

• It's a free tool!

Cons: 

• Needs more import options such as uploading questions from Microsoft word, moodle, or other question generators.

• It will be great if there were more variety of games.

• No collaboration.

Conclusion

I do love technology, and it is because that technology brings something new to a classroom that was impossible before. It can be very helpful or sometimes makes no difference, however, this student response system "Socrative.com" is definitely a helpful tool because students can simply use any device to log onto a website and respond to questions in real time. It is a nice service. It will be a great way to review or start and finish a lesson for both teachers and students.