Socrative Has a New Owner – Not Much Changes
Before there was Kahoot or Quizizz there was Socrative. Socrative was a pioneer in the area of quiz-style student response systems that incorporated responses from students’ phones, tablets, and computers. Socrative has offered individual and team games from the start. And the aspect of Socrative that I appreciate the most from a classroom management standpoint […]
4 Good Formative Assessment Tools for Classrooms That Aren’t 1:1
Earlier today Kahoot announced that they now have 50 million users. That prompted one person to email me asking if there was something similar that she can use in her classroom that isn’t 1:1. My immediate reply was to try Kahoot’s team mode. Kahoot’s team mode is designed to be used with students who are sharing […]
How to Create Short Answer Activities in Socrative
Socrative is one of the original and best platforms for creating quiz games to be played in your classroom on Chromebooks, laptops, and mobile devices. One of the best aspects of Socrative is that unlike Kahoot, Socrative lets you create games in which students have to type answers instead of just picking a multiple choice […]
Use Socrative to Create Quiz Games That Accept Short Answers
This morning I received an email from a reader who was looking for an alternative to Kahoot. He wrote, “I would love to have the same set up / timer / point distribution as Kahoot, but I’m now looking for something more challenging than clicking on an answer…” Socrative was the first option that came […]
Kahoot Adds a Team Mode
This week Kahoot, the wildly popular quiz game platform, released a new team mode. The new team mode is designed to be used with students who are sharing computers, tablets, or phones. In team mode students arrange themselves in teams around a shared computer or tablet. When you start a Kahoot game you’ll now choose […]