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What is Socrative? [|Socrative] is a tool for teachers to encourage students to participate in classroom activities, get feedback, and assess the students’ comprehension visually in real time. Teachers only need to create a classroom space after signing up an account and then students can enter the space and answer the questions or do classroom activities.

What are the benefits of Socrative ?
 * It's available for free to teachers and students.
 * Teachers can get feedback instantaneously, allowing for student’s understanding to guide instruction.
 * Teacher can design their questions both before class and during teaching.
 * Engaging students. Requires all students to participate.
 * Creates opportunities for cooperative learning and friendly competition.
 * It is easy to operate for teachers and students.
 * Easily accessible to any device connected to the internet (smartphone, tablets, computers)

Here is an Example of a Socrative  we created. There are several steps to use Socrative. First, teachers need to create an account and log in. Here’s the screen when you open this website. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 19px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">After signing in, the next screen is teacher’s main page. Remember the Room name that you need to share with your students so that they can log in. Teachers can go to Manage Quizzes to design their questions. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 19px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Then we can see Create Quiz. Teachers go to that part to design their questions. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 19px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Teachers can choose different types of questions, such as Multiple Choice, True/False, Short Question. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 19px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Here’s what we created. The quiz is a True/False question type. After creating the quiz, you can assign it to your class. Students will take the test and answer all questions at their own pace.

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 19px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Before they can take the quiz, they use the teacher's room name to sign in.



<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 19px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">After logging in, when teachers click on Start Quiz button on teacher’s interface and choose the question type that they have designed, students can answer the questions.



<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 19px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Next, teachers can see the results in real time.



<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 19px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Finally, teachers can get the reports in many different ways.



<span class="wiki_link_ext" style="background-color: #dbdcdb; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 19.2px;">Socrative <span style="background-color: #dbdcdb; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 19.2px;">Activity

1. Watch video below. media type="youtube" key="U6AoEiY7Pkc" width="560" height="315"

2. Go to [|Socrative]and take quiz. Use room code "mrbrownsclass"

3. Sign up for a Teacher account and create your own quizzes.

<span style="background-color: #dbdcdb; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 19.2px;">How can I use Socrative in my classroom?

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 19px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">__Student examples:__
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students and teachers need to use Socrative at the same time at class and students need to finish the activity with the teachers’ supervision.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students can have a group competition with Space Race and during this process; they can cultivate the spirit of cooperation.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students can give feedback directly and let the teachers check their understanding.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students can discuss some questions using Quick Question.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students can answer the questions anonymously and feel comfortable.

__<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Teacher examples: __
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Teachers can use Socrative as a “bell ringer” or “exit ticket” activity to quickly assess student knowledge before and after a lesson.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Teachers can use Socrative as a “Quick Check” during a lesson to get feedback directly and review the knowledge that students did not acquire before the lesson ends.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Teachers can go to Import Question to cite some questions from scholars and check students’ understanding.