fabulous formative assessment
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Why are online formative
assessment tools useful in the
classroom?
Relatively easy to create
Provide you with instant feedback
Download results for analysis later
Engaging
Quick and effective
Socrative
Can be created online or via the app on
an iPad or android devices
Students can answer either using a
handheld device or using their
laptop/desktop computers
Socrative Room number
Students type
this in to get to
your quizzes
The number
of students in
your room
This is where you find
quizzes that you have
made or found
Socrative
Socrative Shared quizzes doc
Infuse Learning
Very similar to Socrative
Easy to use
Can be used by students on a
tablet/phone or laptop/desktop
Students need a room number to see your
quizzes
This is an online tool – there is no app
Students go to student.infuselearning.com
Answer Garden
This is a really minimal tool
It’s like padlet or linot
It’s a web based tool and there’s an app
It can be pretty powerful
Kahoot
Easy to use
Create quizzes like infuse learning and
Socrative
Search for quizzes made by others
Game based
Results are downloadable
It’s huge amounts of fun!
Teachers create Kahoots at getkahoot.com
Students play kahoot at kahoot.it
Plickers
A digital meets analogue formative
assessment app
You need to go to the Plickers website
and download the 40 images and print
them off
Perfect for the 1 iPad classroom
PlickersIn order for Plickers to work you have to add
class lists. You can do it in the app or via the
website.
Plickers
When you are using Plickers you must give
students the correct image for their name.
You can check this via the library on the
home page
Using the App select the question that
you wish to ask your class. Tap live view
on you computer and the question will
appear for your students to see
Educanon
Educanon enables you to insert questions
into any video of your choosing
These questions can then be used to
formatively assess your students.
Teachers need to create an account but
students do not.
Educanon Play video and use the crop
video feature to cut out any
bits you don’t want
When finished tap finish
build
Educanon
Let the newly cropped video play and when you are at
a point where you would like to ask a question tap add
question. In the free version you only have 3 choices.
Educanon
To assign the task to unregistered students. Go to bulbs and
select the one that you want them to use.
Tap the
orange box
Select
unregistered
students
You now have
links and embed
codes which
you can use.
EducanonTap monitor
Tap select your class
Tap unassigned
Tap select bulb
Choose the bulb that you
would like students to do.
Nearpod
Create or search for content on the
website nearpod.com
Students access the content via the
iPads,tablets or laptops
You can just drag in a powerpoint or
keynote and add interactive elements.
Nearpod
In order to use Nearpod you tap the presentation that you want to use and click/tap live session
This gives you a code which you share with your class
You class type this into their nearpod app
This is not self guided so they need you to move to the 2nd slide so that they can sign in.
Once in the teacher controls the slides.
You can share the things that your students do on the activity slides with everyone in the class
The best way is probably to have a go!