Socrative

Empowering Teachers

Resource Type: Audience Response Tool

Source: Open

External Links:
https://socrative.com/

Smart student response system that empowers teachers to engage their classrooms through a series of educational exercises and games via smartphones.

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I do a few things using Socrative like collect feedback – it’s easy to create the questions in advance, collect feedback and save the answers. I do lots of numerical questions in class and it’s hard to see what each student is doing when I am in a big lecture room. I collect answers anonymously and display them so that everybody can see and check if they are on the right track. Students don’t really like to shout the answers so this is perfect. I can also see if the question is too difficult. In general I get the correct answer from most of the students, but if I get completely different answer from each student, it’s a sign that it was too difficult, they didn’t really get it. Sometimes I want to mark a question so I can do the same, but this time students are requested to sign in with their real names.

Aurora Dimanche

Dr. Aurora Dimache

ATU Galway-Mayo

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Ease of Use

Rated 3 out of 5

The tool has a user-friendly interface and it is easy for instructors and students to become skillful with in a personalized and intuitive manner.

Media Rich & Flexible Features

Rated 1 out of 5

The tool is restrictive in terms of the representational forms employed (audio, visual, textual) and presents information sequentially in a rigid, inflexible format

Mobile Design & Functionality

Rated 3 out of 5

The tool can be accessed either via app or a mobile browser, regardless of the mobile operating system and device. Design of the mobile tool fully takes into consideration the constraints of a smaller-sized screen and has full functionality.

Integration / Embedding with Moodle

Rated 1 out of 5

The tool can only be accessed through a hyperlink or static representations of the tool (e.g file export), rather than a functional version of the tool itself

Support / Help

Rated 2 out of 5

Technical support and help documentation is available directly from the software providers website and/or built in to the application.

Facilitation

Rated 3 out of 5

The tool has easy-to-use features that would significantly improve an instructor’s ability to be present with learners via active management, monitoring, engagement, and feedback

Learning Analytics

Rated 3 out of 5

Instructor can monitor learners’ performance on a variety of responsive measures. These measures can be accessed through a user-friendly dashboard

Enhancement of Cognitive Tasks

Rated 2 out of 5

The tool enables functional improvement to engagement in the targeted cognitive task(s)

Metacognitive Engagement

Rated 2 out of 5

Opportunities for receiving formative feedback on learning are available, but infrequent or limited (i.e. poor opportunities for tracking performance, monitoring improvement, testing knowledge on a regular basis)

Collaboration

Rated 1 out of 5

Communication, interactivity, and transfer of meaning between users is not supported or significantly limited

Sign Up / Sign In

Rated 3 out of 5

Use of the tool does not require the creation of an external account or additional login, such that no personal user information is collected and shared.