Finishing up with our first full week of BYOD integration, we decided to use Socrative Teacher and Socrative Student to host a mini-quiz about multiplying polynomials. I send out a quick reminder to the class using Remind101 to ensure that they came in with the Socrative Student app already downloaded. We had our lesson, went through a couple practice problems, and then started the quiz.
Logistics:
I had never worked with Socrative before, but it was a simple program to learn.
- Sign up for an account and make sure that your email address is something that you can access from school. More on that later.
- Write down the Room Number that you have been given
- Create a Quiz
- Once you have students logged into your room number, assign the quiz
- Students take the quiz and feel awesome
Creating the quiz was easy, but a word of note about the explanation- it shows up after the problem has been attempted. Therefore, my explanation of "multiply" was really confusing for the students once they submitted their solution. In the future, I will be using the explanation to give the students a brief summary of the problem without giving away the solution.
Once the students are finished with the quiz, you can easily end the activity to close out any other responses. One of the best features is that you can have the results emailed to you for review and grading purposes. I was able to view the submitted results as a quick way to check for accuracy, knowing that some students accidentally put in the wrong number or submitted too early. This was their first check, followed by me checking their work on the paper that was turned in. It was a great way to get a quick check for understanding on the key concepts that we were working on. In reality, most of the students who made a mistake simply for got an x or a squared. Those are easy mistakes to correct.
Once the students are finished with the quiz, you can easily end the activity to close out any other responses. One of the best features is that you can have the results emailed to you for review and grading purposes. I was able to view the submitted results as a quick way to check for accuracy, knowing that some students accidentally put in the wrong number or submitted too early. This was their first check, followed by me checking their work on the paper that was turned in. It was a great way to get a quick check for understanding on the key concepts that we were working on. In reality, most of the students who made a mistake simply for got an x or a squared. Those are easy mistakes to correct.
All in all, it was a pretty incredibly day to finish up an amazing week of BYOD in room 205. There are still a lot of bumps in the road to work through, but the kids love it and I am thrilled about the challenge of conquering something new.
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