Socrative
Usability: Socrative is a formative assessment tool that allows you to create different types of quizzes and assessments for your class. It has an easy to use navigation, and teachers can choose whether to do a multiple choice, true/false, or short answer quiz. It is web-based and offers a pro option with more features.
Motivation: Teachers have a choice of making assessments student-paced with immediate feedback or student navigation, or making assessments teacher-paced. Teachers can create rooms for different classes. Also, Socrative allows team assessments, where students can work together to solve problems. The program also allows for the creation of exit tickets. Teachers can add explanations to questions as to why the answer is wrong or right.
Pros: Socrative is free but does offer a pro option for increasing classroom size and number of rooms. Results are neatly organized and can be saved easily to computer, email, or Google Drive. Quizzes can be imported from either Socrative or Excel spreadsheet. Quizzes can also be aligned to meet different Standards.
Cons: Doesn’t integrate with Google Classroom or Edmodo.
Formative
Usability: Formative is an online assessment tool that supports PDF and Word document upload. From here, Formative turns any worksheet into an online assessment. It has a simple interface with drag-and-drop capabilities. There are also videos online that teach you how to use this software.
Motivation: Teachers can cut down on paper by uploading a single file and sending it to the class. Teachers can choose to have students answer questions in a variety of ways: written responses, drawings, or images, etc. Teachers can see student responses in real time and grade and provide feedback immediately.
Pros: Possibility for a paperless classroom. Perfect for flipped classrooms, 1:1, BYOD, and blended learning. It’s free for teachers and students and assessments can be aligned with standards. Live results and live feedback. Ability to share assignments with other teachers. Integrates with G Suite for Education (formerly Google Apps for Education) and Clever.
Cons: None.
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