Recently, my colleague and I have been using the website Socrative to do reviews and even real quizzes with our classes. As part of our BYOD initiative, most students have some sort of device with internet on it, whether it's a smart phone, laptop, tablet, or iPod. Teachers can create a quiz, then go to t.socrative.com to start it. Students go to m.socrative.com and log into your "room number," a random six-digit number assigned by the website. Once signed in, students can take the quiz on their own devices. Teachers can choose a "student-paced quiz," which allows students to answer questions at their own pace, or a "teacher-paced quiz" which allows the teacher to send questions one at a time. Here is an example of a Socrative quiz I did just today with my class.
Students were given this sheet - a conversation missing several vocab expressions:
Students then answered questions one a time on their own devices:
I chose a teacher-paced quiz, so I sent the questions one at a time and students answered. Socrative shows the live results, so for example, on one question I saw that 6 students chose an incorrect answer. I was able to address that with the class and we discussed why it was not the best choice. This was great for our quiz review today!
Give Socrative a try!
