Hi this is Russell Stannard from teacher training videos.com this set of videos is going to look at
Socrative I'm going to go for it as quickly as I can I'm going to try and do three things firstly
show you what an actual quiz looks like if we do one so I'm going to look at it from the teachers
point of view and from the students point of view secondly I'm going to build a Socratic quiz right
in front of your eyes and test it so you can see exactly how we make one thirdly I'm going to look
at the space race option and the exit ticket just to make these two final options very clear
so let's get straight in and quickly look at an example that will help us to understand how to
make a Socrative now you do need an account to work with Socrative only the teacher needs to
log in the students log in somewhere completely different and do not need to sign up and do not
need to give their email address only the teacher needs to do that so you will need to click on
Socrative and you will need obviously to create an account for yourself so you will click here
on get an account now I'm going to guess that you're already logged in and I'm going to show
you what you see when you have logged in and let's start straightaway to look at this great tool and
some of the possibilities of how we can work with it so I'm logged into Socrative and there are two
or three key things you need to learn about one this is your room this is the name of your room
this is the room the code that you will need to give to the students you will always have the same
room I'm presuming of course that you have got a free account secondly the most important thing
for you will be where you launch your quizzes and where you create your quizzes all these buttons
here are quite useful but these two are the most important and obviously to create a quiz we click
here and then we're going to click on add quiz and you can see all my quizzes here and to launch
a quiz we click click here we choose the type of quiz we want to launch and then we launch it now
what I thought would be interesting for me to do first was to actually show you a quiz so what I'm
going to do is I'm going to log into one of my quizzes as a teacher and then I'm going to show
you exactly what the student sees as well and you can do this is quite a clever trick by logging in
on one browser as a teacher and then using the student access and using the code to log in as
a student on the other so let's have a look at and a Socrative quiz in action so let's launch
a quiz then and then look at what the students see so I'm going to click here on quiz I just asked me
do I want to current stop the current activity I'm going to say yes it's going to then ask me well
what quiz do you want to launch well I'm going to launch this one here history of the kings
and queens I click on next and then I'm going to got three choices now understanding these choices
is quite important this one means basically that you're the teacher controls when the next question
is available to the students and in both of these the student is in control so these are
quite similar really this one just gives feedback immediately after each question and this one gives
feedback at the end so I tend to choose this one and I also tend to choose that the students get
their final score now these are settings that you'll have to learn to work with but I'm going
to click on start now and it immediately launches the game and as you can see it's now waiting for
students to begin to log in now this here is the room number so the students now need to log in and
with that number on a different account and I'm going to show you that now and then the students
can start to do the activity so let's have a look at it now from the students point of view if the
students go to socrative.com or they download an app all they need to do is click on student
log in there's no need for them to put any email addresses or anything they simply put the name of
the class into their log in and then add their name so in our case jumping back to the teacher
view we can see that the class is TD our l1 s Q so I add T double r1 sqrl one is Q if I click on join
I then write my name so I'm going to write Russell and then I will join the room now instantly the
questions begin because we've set it to what we call student mode where the Stu controls the
question so let's start to answer a few questions the king was restored after the Civil War in
England which King so the answer is it's Charles I click there I get instant feedback because that
is what I set in the settings for the teacher come to the next question henry the eighth for
marriage six times the answer is true and submit the answer and again we can see i get the instant
feedback move on to the next question his first wife was Catherine of Aragon okay so we begin to
answer the questions now let's have a quick look at what the teacher is seeing at this moment in
time now notice that the teacher can see exactly how many students are logged in well in this case
is just myself how many questions each student has aren't I well in this case I've answered the three
first and it tells me that I got them all correct now I could project this onto the screen and if I
didn't want anyone to see the answers well I can turn the answers off so that way if you wanted to
just kind of do it as a race who's doing the best and even if you want to turn the students name
off you can do that as well so it's quite nice to project this onto the screen so the students
can see in competition with other students what progress they're making you've got a couple of
options in terms of what information you reveal and you can have I mean I've done quizzes with
literally hundreds of students online at the same time so you know you can have a huge list here of
students that are working through the questions remember I've set my quiz as student paced you
can also do a quiz as teacher paced as well so I'm going to quickly finish this quiz and then
show you what the teachers see at the end just to give you a bit of an idea of what information the
teachers finally get once the quiz is completed so I've just finished the quiz I've got 75% on
that quiz let's just now go and have a look at what the teacher would see and the teacher would
get all of this information about the student and then once the teacher is all the students
have completed the quiz the teacher can click on finish and they've got various options here and
they can view a chart they can get a report so for example we can click on this chart and it could
gives us some information it's actually kind of the same information that we've saw anyway if we
click on this one we can actually get a report and download it as well and that can be really
useful if you want to look at where students are having problems and where you need to perhaps give
them some feedback so for example we can see here that the student got two answers incorrect okay so
we've now seen what it's like if a student does a quiz and how this teacher does the quiz now let's
actually create one so when it comes to making quizzes click here click on quizzes and simply
click on add now we can import quizzes we'll look at that later but what we can do here is
create a new quiz and that's the most important now we're going to give this quiz title we're
going to call this quiz about Britain and simply we now choose what type of question we want to add
now when we work with security if we've got three choices we'll start with a multiple-choice one so
we're going to click on this one here and notice that you can immediate you're going to write your
question here your possible answers here you need to tell Socrative what the correct answer is this
feedback error is particularly important remember after each question particularly if you use it in
student mode then you can provide feedback to the students notice you can also add a picture
if you want to do that and notice also you can add more answer options I'm going to just work
with the first three it Socrative will work out how many options to offer depending on how many
you complete so let's write in a question and I'll stop the video I quickly write the question just
to save time okay so here is my question here are my possible answers I need to tell it which is to
correct one you can actually have more than one correct answer if there if there's an option here
I've added some nice feedback I've kind of built on this question and provide a little bit more
detail feedback really should confirm an answer but also add a little bit of extra information
because it really is a learning opportunity for the students so I've provided some more
information to the students there once I finished my question I simply click on save and I'm then
ready to add another question it's that easy to create questions now let's create another question
but this time we're going to include a picture so for the second question we're going to click
on true we are going to add a question this time and this time we're going to click here and add a
picture so I'm going to grab a picture from our from my computer and use it in the activity so
I'm going to grab this map of spine here and going to click on that and then the question
that I'm going to write is Henry the eighth's so I've completed the question here Henry the
eighth's first wife was from Spain true or false the answer is true and then I've given some extra
feedback explaining that she was the daughter of Catherine or was called Catherine of Aragon and
she was the daughter of the Reyes católicos and and that she'd actually been married to Henry's
brothers previously so we're trying to give some extra information remember this is a learning
opportunity and it's one of the reasons why I particularly like Socrative so we've now added two
questions in one includes a picture let's finally have a look at the short answer question so we're
going to click on this and make this the final question now the third question we're going to
look at is called short answer then you write the question in and you need to add possible answers
now strictly speaking actually this question is not even sure I'm going to give is not correct
because actually it's not the clock let's call Big Ben it's actually the the Bell but most
people think of it as the clock so we're going to write Big Ben and we're going to add also
the chance to write big with a capital B so we're going to write Big Ben will also accept that and
will also accept Big Ben now this is the problem with working like this because how many options
are we going to accept is correct for example are we going to accept if the students write the
answers all in big letters so this is something you really need to deal with and again I'll need
to put in some nice little bit of feedback here remembering as I've said to us now twice this is
a learning opportunity I'm not keen on the short answer questions because you've always got trouble
with deciding what formats and what answers are acceptable so I've written a nice bit of feedback
we've now got three question types now of course I can add more and more questions we've got just
three questions but each one is different we've done a multiple choice attune force and we've also
done a short answer question we're going to click on save and exit now because we're finished and
now it's simply going to bring us back to a list of all of our quizzes and what we can actually
do from here is various things we can copy a quiz we can download a quiz etc but we can also click
on launch now click on launch quizzes and quiz about Britain again we're going to click on next
and we're going to have instant feedback as I've said that's the option I like best you can read
about the other options as well and I also like to give the final score so the students know their
final score I click on starts and immediately just like before now the students would need
to log in with that room number and they could begin to do the quiz so that really is how you
can work with Socrative and how you can create your own quizzes I really hope you found those
videos useful on Socrative and you might want to learn Socrative in even more detail and in
fact if you come to my website there is a second set of videos that goes through Socrative in more
detail come to the website there's a newsletter that you can sign up to that gives you updates on
all the latest videos and technologies that I've come across but if you're not interested just
click here the section where you're going to find more videos on Socrative is here click on mobile
technology and you'll see that there's more videos including advanced Socrative and videos on Kahoot
etc now the other section that you might also find interesting is Russell's five minute blog
and on Russell's five minute blog there were very short videos to show you a whole range of other
technologies that you might find interesting in all of these videos are five minutes only so if
you click on any of the videos make sure one thing please watch the videos full screen you
can always click on the video and then open up and watch your I want Greenstein much better to
watch my videos or screen them to watch them it's more science finally if you really interested in
following my work then also I add lots of videos onto YouTube in fact on YouTube you'll find many
video that I do not put on the website but as I repeat if you want to do advanced Socrative
click on the section mobile technology and you'll see a set of videos that says advanced Socrative