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Socrative

Materials required
Implementation procedure
Strategy in practice

  • Devices (computer, tablet, or mobile)

  • Internet connection

  1. Navigate to socrative.com and create a teacher account.

  2. Select and create a multiple choice, true/false, and/or open response quiz.

  3. Once the quiz is created, Socrative will supply you with a quiz room code.

  4. Instruct your students to navigate to Socrative and enter the room code to access the quiz. They won’t need to log in with individual accounts, but they will need to know this unique room code.

High school math teacher Anthony teaches the same Algebra I class in two sections, Section A and Section B. To drive engagement, he wanted to set up a competition between the sections and decided to use Socrative to do it.

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Things to keep in mind

  • Cost: free and paid options, depending on number of users and desired features

  • Pros

    • Extremely robust tool in terms of authoring flexibility, reporting options, and moderation of quizzes

    • Support for troubleshooting, getting started, etc. is hefty

    • Reporting features allow you to digest the data when and how they want to

  • Cons

    • The bells and whistles baked into Socrative mean that you may have to dedicate more time to acclimating yourself as opposed to a lighter tool like Quiz Socket.

    • Question “rooms” are capped at 50 students unless you upgrade your account.

Anthony wanted to have two Socrative “rooms” for the competition. His free account only allowed one, so he purchased a paid account and requested reimbursement from his department. Anthony created two rooms and populated each with the same five multiple choice questions. Anthony didn’t want the quiz to be stressful, so he assigned it as an optional (but highly encouraged) homework activity.

 

“You have nothing to lose!” he told his students.

 

Anthony was aware of three students who didn’t have a computer or internet at home and left his class open after school on quiz day to accommodate.

 

Anthony tabulated the results two days later: Section B won by a hair. Anthony doesn’t see Socrative as ever serving as a replacement for traditional exams, but it gave him a good sense of his students’ factoring abilities early in the unit. He also felt that it drove engagement through friendly competition without stressing individual mastery - or lack thereof.

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