Benefits of Socrative
- The app is free for teachers and students.
- The app can be accessed via mobile phones, tablets, or laptops--and is equally easy to use on all three.
- Each teacher is given a random classroom number for students to access, keeping activities and student information private.
- Teachers can create a variety of quiz formats, including multiple-choice, true/false, and open-ended responses. Teachers can also use the quizzes for exit tickets, or choose "Space Race" to play the quiz as a game.
- Teachers can verbally ask the questions, and students can submit their responses--this is great as a quick check for understanding if the teacher didn't design a quiz in advance on the app.
- Teachers can choose student-paced or teacher-paced quizzes.
- Teachers can also choose for the app to give students the correct answer right away, or not to reveal the correct answer.
- If not all of a teacher's students have mobile devices, Socrative is great for sharing. Space Race is an activity that can be done in groups (only one student in the group needs a device), and there is also an option at the end of each quiz that says, "Let another student take this quiz." The student can loan the device to another student, who can take the quiz from the beginning under his/her own name.
- The app shows the teacher in real time how many students have finished the quiz.
- Socrative delivers an Excel report via email to the teacher with the student results as soon as the quiz is over.