The Socrative App 2.0
East Irondequoit Central School District
Professional Development
Instructor: Candie Black
[email protected]
Summer 2014
Table of Contents
What is Socrative 2.0? ... 3
Socrative – iPad vs. Desktop ... 3
Connecting to the teacher's Socrative room ... 4
Downloading the Socrative App on your iPad ... 4
Creating your Teacher Socrative account ... 5
How to login as a teacher ... 6
Dashboard ... 7
Creating a spontaneous activity (“Quick Question”) in real time ... 8
Creating a new quiz activity ... 10
Running a pre-made quiz ... 14
Editing a Quiz ... 17
Duplicating a Quiz ... 18
Deleting a Quiz ... 19
Importing a quiz activity ... 20
Space Race ... 21
Exit Ticket ... 23
Quiz reports ... 24
Sample Quiz Report ... 25
Retrieve a previous quiz report ... 26
Menu Button (Clear Room, My Profile, Logout) ... 27
What is Socrative 2.0?
Socrative is a smart student response system that empowers teachers by engaging their classrooms with a series of educational exercises and games.
This interactive app is super simple and takes only seconds to login. Socrative runs on tablets, smartphones, and laptops. Teachers login through their
device and select an activity which controls the flow of questions and games.
Students simply login with their device and interact in real time with the content. Student responses are visually represented for multiple choice, true/false and short answer questions. For pre-planned activities a teacher can view reports online as a google spreadsheet or as an emailed Excel file.
In July of 2014, Socrative 1.0 was replaced by 2.0 with a more pleasing graphic interface for and a couple of new features. If you were already using version 1.0, your content will be copied over to a 2.0 account and your login will stay the same.
Socrative – iPad vs. Desktop
Socrative is a web-based program that can be used from any device with an Internet connection. From a teacher’s perspective, it is helpful to create your Socrative quizzes/activities using a desktop computer (mostly because of ease of typing). That being said, you can run a Socrative quiz from either a desktop computer/media cart or from your iPad displayed on the pull-down screen / SMART Board via the Air Server.
It is helpful to download the free Socrative app on your iPad nonetheless so that you can have the option of running a quiz from the iPad.
Connecting to the teacher's Socrative room
Students only need to go to the Socrative website (either via a computer or an iPad) and enter the teacher’s room number.
They do NOT create a Socrative account.
If you have an iPad with the Socrative app installed, open the app and enter the following room number: madameblack. Click
“Join room”.
If you are using a computer, go to www.socrative.com, click on “Student Log In” and enter the following room number: madameblack. Click
“Join room”.
Let’s take a quiz together to learn about the student experience!
Downloading the Socrative App on your iPad
a) Open the App Store and enter the word “Socrative”into the search bar.
b) Click on the “free” icon to download the app.
c) Unfortunately, when Socrative downloads on the student iPads, it is called “Student” instead of
“Socrative”. By the same token, the teacher’s app is called “Teacher” not Socrative, which can be
confusing. Since you cannot change the name of an
app, I recommend downloading both the student and teacher version and putting them in a folder labeled “Socrative”
Creating your Teacher Socrative account
a) Go to www.socrative.com.
b) Click on the “Teacher Sign Up” button.
c) Enter your email address.
d) Enter a password.
e) Click the box indicating you agree to their terms of service.
f) Click on the “Submit” button.
How to login as a teacher
a) Go to www.socrative.com using a computer (or start the Socrative app from your iPad).
b) Enter your username (email) and password.
c) Click on the “Login” button.
d) Notice that the top part of the Socrative teacher screen displays a “Room Number” and the number of students in the “room”.
e) The room is identified by an automatically-generated 6-digit number.
This number is unique to you and will be used every time a student logs in to Socrative during your class.
f) You can change the room number to something easier to remember (alpha or numeric or a combination thereof) in the “My Profile” section (more information on this later).
g) Students, on the other hand, do not have to login to Socrative. They simply open the app and then type in the teacher’s room number.
Dashboard
The Dashboard is divided into several sections:
a) A blue bar across the top with :
a. The name of the program: Socrative
b. The number of students current in your “room”
c. The room name/number
d. A menu button along the right margin
b) A black bar indicating where in the program you are currently (“dashboard”) and what activity if any you are doing (“no activity”) c) An inner square of green and blue buttons:
d) Start a Quiz e) Quick Question f) Space Race g) Exit Ticket h) Manage Quizzes
Creating a spontaneous activity (“Quick Question”) in real
time
This screen allows you to ask SPONTANEOUS questions to the students as they key in their answers. You have the choice of the following types of questions:
a) Multiple Choice b) True / False c) Short Answer
d) When you use this option, you as the teacher will have to read the question and possible answers. For True / False questions, this is very effective since students know the choices ahead of time. For multiple choice questions, this can be a bit more challenging as the students must remember the choices to figure out their answers.
e) Spontaneous questions are an excellent way of closing out the class, especially if you find there are a few unused minutes at the end. The teacher must make up the questions on the spot, but the activity is quickly set up and very flexible.
f) Above is what students see when you select a multiple choice question.
Read the question and answers. Students will key in their answers.
(Notice that Socrative keeps track of the number of students who have answered the question and will tally their collective responses.) Click
“Finish” to close the spontaneously activity or click on one of the three question buttons to ask another question.
Creating a new quiz activity
This screen allows you to create, edit, import & delete quizzes.
a) Notice that your room name/number is always displayed at the top.
The “Manage Quizzes” screen is divided into the following sections:
a. Create Quiz b. Import Quiz
c. My Quizzes (where the quizzes you have already created are stored)
d. Reports
b) Click on “Create a Quiz”.
c) Enter a logical name for the quiz. (Note: proper naming of quizzes is essential so that you can use and edit quizzes from year to year. Simply naming a quiz as “Quiz 1” does not help you identify the content of the
quiz, nor the class to which it is given. Since most teachers teach more than one level, I recommend that you use the following naming
convention:
a. Class – Unit # - Unit topic - Quiz topic
b. For example: FR2 – Unit 4 – House – Furniture quiz
c. Socrative allows you to share your quizzes with the Socrative community. The default value of this field is “Shared” along with an SOC# (which identifies the quiz). If you don’t which to share the quiz, click the “Shared” box to change it to “Not Shared”.
d. Consider how many questions the quiz will contain (you do not
e. Determine the type of question you will ask for the first question:
multiple choice (includes true/false) or short answer. Click on the one you want.
f. Enter the question and the multiple choice answers (at least two).
(Note that you can add or delete the number of possible answers by clicking the “+Add” or “-Delete” buttons.
g. Click the box next to the correct answer. (Note that you can designate more than one correct answer.)
h. (Optional) – if you wish to explain to students why an answer is correct, enter this information where it says “Explanation”.
i. You can add an image to the question by clicking on the “Add image” button. Browse to the picture location. Click on it and
Socrative will add it to the question – centered on the screen. The image must be less than 2MB and in a standard image format such as .jpeg. To remove the image, click on the “Remove the image”
link.)
j. Repeat step “F” for every question you wish to create. Click on
“Save & Exit” to save the quiz or add a different type of question.
k. Short Answer Questions
i. In multiple choice questions, the answers are pre-
determined and there is ONE correct answer, making it very simple for the Socrative to grade students’ quizzes.
ii. While short answer questions are possible, they require a great deal of clarity in order for them to be effective with students.
iii. When creating a short answer question, you must make sure that you ask the question very clearly so as to guide the student towards the correct answer.
iv. Correct spelling is a must in order for an answer to be marked correct.
v. For instance, if your short answer question was: What fruit is the symbol of New York State? and the answer is “Apple”, students must be told not to put an article in front of the answer (as “an apple”, “the apple”, “apples” will be marked incorrect).
vi. In order for the student to get the correct answer, it must match EXACTLY what the teacher entered.
vii. For these reasons, the teacher must explain (and possibly
Running a pre-made quiz
a) Once you have created a quiz, you can “run” it by clicking on “Start Quiz”.
b) Notice that this screen has two tabs:
a. Recent quizzes you created or run.
b. All quizzes
c) Choose the quiz you wish to run from the list. A button will appear that is labeled “Start”. (Note: you will ONLY be able to “Start” a quiz if you have at least one student located in your room.)
d) Quiz settings
a. Choose the pace of the quiz
i. Student-paced quiz - Immediate Feedback – Students take the quiz at their own pace and receive immediate
right/wrong feedback and explanations after they answer each question. Students answer questions in order and cannot skip or change their answers. The teacher is able to monitor their progress via a Live Results Table. (Note: This
quiz their own way. Once they've completed the activity they can submit the entire assessment. You are able to monitor their progress via a Live Results Table.
iii. Teacher-paced quiz - teacher controls when each question will be displayed (released to students) and when to “close”
the question (that is, to move on to the next question). This is ideal for quizzes used as warm-ups or closures as the quiz and the student answers (aggregate – individual students are not identified) can be displayed for the class.
e) Additional settings
a. Disable student names
b. Randomize question order (To encourage students to work on their own and prevent collusion, you can choose to have the questions displayed in random order. This is ideal for a student- paced quiz that counts as a grade.)
c. Randomize answer order (Same function as above except for answers.)
d. Disable student feedback
f) Click on “Start” when you are ready to begin.
Editing a Quiz
a) Click on “Manage Quizzes”.
b) Select a quiz from the list.
c) Click on “Edit”.
d) Make edits as necessary and click on “Save & Exit”. (Note: there is no
“Save As” option to keep the original quiz and save the edits under a new name. When using this “Edit” option, make sure that the changes you make are exactly what you want as the original quiz will not be saved. See “Duplicating a Quiz” section on the next page to create a different version of the same quiz.)
Duplicating a Quiz
a) Click on “Manage Quizzes”.
b) Click on “My Quizzes”.
c) Select a quiz from the list.
d) Click on the “Duplicate” button.
e) Notice that you will have a “Copy” of the original quiz. Click on it. Click
“Edit”. Click on the name of the quiz. Replace the “Copy of” name with a new name.
f) Make edits as necessary and click on “Save”. (Duplicate quiz effectively functions as “Save as”, allowing you to keep the original quiz and make changes to a new version under a new name.)
Deleting a Quiz
a) Click on “Manage Quizzes”.
b) Click on “My Quizzes”.
c) Select a quiz from the list.
d) Click on “Delete”.
e) Socrative will ask you to confirm your request to delete (as there is no
“undo” button”).
f) Click “Confirm” to delete or “Cancel” to not delete.
Importing a quiz activity
a) Click on “Manage Quizzes”.
b) Click on “Import Quiz”. (Note: you must have the “SOC number” of the quiz you will import. You get this from the author of the quiz. Socrative used to allow you to import quizzes from an Excel spreadsheet, but that function has been disabled.)
c) Enter the “SOC” number and click on “Import Quiz”.
Space Race
Space Race is a fun, interactive game where individuals or teams compete by answering questions from one of your pre-made quizzes. Each student (or team) has a different color spaceship. When they get a question right, the spaceship moves forward. When they get a question wrong, the ship stands still (it does not go backwards). The team whose rocket travels the farthest wins.
To create a Space Race game:
a) Design a Quiz made of multiple-choice questions (includes true-false questions).
b) Click on “Space Race”.
c) Select the Quiz you want students to use from the drop down menu d) Enter the number of teams (up to 15)/
g) Select whether to auto-assign team colors (recommended), or let the students choose. (Note: allowing students to choose their own colors can be a large time-waster. I recommend if using teams to have
Socrative “auto-assign” the team colors. Students will see their color displayed and will then have to get together with others of the same color to participate.)
e) Select whether to “disable feedback” (recommended) or not.
f) When playing in teams, only one member of the team needs to use his/her iPad.
g) Click on “Start Activity”.
h) Click on “Finish” when you want to end the Space Race.
i) More information on “results” and “reports” will be covered in a following section.
Exit Ticket
An “Exit Ticket” is a great way to check student understanding at the end of class. It asks students a series of quick questions, and sends the results in a report.
Here are the questions included in an Exit Ticket:
a) What is your name?
b) How well did you understand today’s material?
1. Totally got it 2. Pretty well 3. Not very well 4. Not at all
c) What did you learn today (free response)?
d) Please answer the teacher’s question (this can be an oral question or something you write on the board).
Quiz reports
Every time you have students take a quiz, or complete an Exit Ticket or Space Race, Socrative generates a data analysis report (by student and by question).
Once the activity is complete, you will be prompted to choose between the following options:
a) Email report (sends an Excel file report to the email registered with Socrative)
b) Download report (allows you to download the same Excel file) c) Google Drive (imports the report into your Google Drive – you must
have preset up this option to use it)
d) View chart (allows you to instantly see how your students did)
e) View later (doesn’t display a report, but will allow you to retrieve the report at a later time)
Choose the option you wish and then click the “Submit” button.
Sample Quiz Report
a) The report lists the title of the quiz, the date and time it was completed, and the room number and teacher email address.
b) Each question is then listed as separate columns (the first column is always the student names) under which are found the individual student responses. Note that correct answers are highlighted in green
Retrieve a previous quiz report
a) Click on “Manage Quizzes”.
b) Click on “Reports”.
c) Select the quiz from the list for which you would like a report. (Note: if you have run quiz more than once, for instance with two different
sections of the same class, you will see the quiz listed twice with different date/time stamps.)
d) Select how you would like to receive your report (email, download, Google Drive, view chart)
Note that you can see each student by name (I’ve block the names out here) as well as each student’s answer to each question. Answers highlighted in green are correct. Answers highlighted in red are incorrect. Socrative also shows what percentage of students got each question correct (in blue).
Menu Button (Clear Room, My Profile, Logout)
In the “Menu” section, you can:
a) Clear the room. You will use this function when once class has finished a quiz on Socrative and you would like to prepare to use the program with an incoming class.
b) Change your “My Profile” settings.
a. Change the email address associated with Socrative. Click on
“Edit” next to the email address and enter the new address.
b. Change your password. Click on “Edit”. Enter your current
password once and your new password twice.
c. Change your room number. Click on “Edit”. Type in a new room name/number. If it has not already been claimed by another Socrative user, it will become yours. In absence of you creating your own room name/number, Socrative will automatically generate a 6-digit room number unique to you.
c) Logout