Socrative

Socrative is a student response system that empowers teachers to engage their classrooms through a series of educational exercises and games via smartphones, laptops, and tablets.

 

Description:

Socrative lets teachers engage and assess their students with educational activities on tablets, laptops and smartphones. When signed up, the teacher can assign a room number for students to join, with different activities such as polls and quizzes. Through the use of real time questioning, instant result aggregation and visualization, teachers can gauge the whole class’ current level of understanding. Socrative saves teachers time so the class can further collaborate and discuss content (From www.socrative.com).

Price:

  • Free to use

Requirements:

  • Register an account on the Socrative website here.

Benefits & Drawbacks:

  • Instant result aggregation
  • Works on multiple web- or app-enabled device 
  • No student registration is required
  • Great for quick assessments of students understanding

Read more:

Socrative provides a video of 'how to' and a user guide available here. You can also check out the blog where a team of educators, entrepreneurs, and engineers are sharing ideas and networking about improving education by using Socrative.