Socrative - Gathering Feedback in a Flash

We talked a lot about Socrative years ago and thought now would be a good time to revisit what Socrative can do for you and your students. This post will help guide you through the basics of how it works and asking your first questions. Our next post will describe how to use Socrative as a way to start conversations in the classroom.

What is Socrative?
A very fast online tool to ask your students questions on the fly and do something with the answers in a flash. The part I really love is there is literally nothing you need to do ahead of time beyond creating a simple account.

Getting Started
Navigate to Socrative and create an account.

1. This is the name your student will type in when they are answering the questions.

2. A premade exit ticket that consists of three question. Two questions are on the screen and the third is verbally give by the teacher. This allows you to be super flexiable.

3. On the fly, think of a question and click the button.

The following two examples are based upon the premade Exit Ticket and the quick Short Answer.

Premade Exit Ticket Example

Click Exit Ticket to get started.

After you click Exit Ticket this screen will appear. There are no students listed as no one logged in yet. Have the kids Google Socrative Student and the first result is the site they need. See the last screenshot if you need to know the name of the room.

1. Results - when the quiz is live, or accessible to students, you should see a little pulsing radio wave emitting just to the right of the word Results.

2. Results dashboard. Just watch the information appear. You can also toggle off the names so no one can see who said what. 

other?

As the students begin to answer you will see information start to populate the screen.

I clicked number two to see what the students were answering.

The Exit Ticket automatically populated this question. I could display this on the board or export it as you will see further down the post.

On the main screen, you will see the finish button, click when you ready to close out the question.

I wanted to see the results so I clicked Get Reports.

I clicked for the results to be emailed to me.

The title in my inbox showed up as reports, look for that.

I opened and downloaded the Excel file to further examine the results.