Socrative

Socrative (so-CRA-tive) is "a smart student response system that empowers teachers by engaging their classrooms with a series of educational exercises and games." The Socrative website has both a teacher login to administer and manage questions and quizzes and a student login for students to respond on their devices. Additionally, Socrative is available as an app for both teachers and students in iOS and Android.

Getting Started with Socrative Shared Music Assessments Resources
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Getting Started with Socrative
From the Socrative Teacher Dashboard, you can administer pre-made quizzes; ask multiple choice, true-false, and short answer questions on the fly; conduct a "Space Race;" and administer an Exit Ticket quiz. From the Manage Quizzes tab, you can create new quizzes and questions, import a Socrative quiz from another teacher or import a quiz from an Excel file, mange your quizzes, and view result data reports. From Live Results tab, you can view student responses in real time while you are administering a quiz or a question.

Creating a Quiz Administering a Quiz Other Question Administration Options Accessing Student Response Data
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Creating a Quiz

 * 1) From the Teacher page, click "Manage Quizzes" on the top toolbar.
 * 2) Click "Create Quiz."
 * 3) Give your quiz a name.
 * 4) Click "Yes" to make your quiz sharable with other teachers or "No" to disable sharing.
 * 5) Click "Add Tag" to choose a subject (NOTE: Tags are currently only available for Common Core subject areas, so music teachers can skip this step).
 * 6) Select a question type for your first question (one quiz can include a variety of question types):
 * For multiple choice questions:
 * Type the question text
 * Type the answer choices (you can add more answer choices by clicking the "+Add" button or delete extra answer choices by clicking the "X" button in the answer field if needed. Each multiple choice question must have a minimum of 2 answer choices but there is no set maximum.)
 * Optional: designate one or more responses as correct by clicking the checkbox(es) next to the correct answer(s). For some purposes you may not want to designate a correct answer (e.g., survey responses).
 * For true/false questions:
 * Type the question text
 * Click on either true or false to designate the correct answer
 * For short answer questions:
 * Type the question text
 * Optional: designate one or more responses as correct. For some purposes you may not want to designate a correct answer (e.g., survey responses, open-ended questions, allowing spelling errors, multi-word answers, etc.).
 * For all question types:
 * Optional: use the editing tools in the question text (bold, italic, underline) to draw attention to a part of the question.
 * Optional: add an explanation of why the correct answer is correct.
 * Optional: add an image to your question (e.g., image of a quarter note, dynamic marking, instrument, pitch on the staff, etc.).
 * 1) To add additional questions, click on an answer type and repeat the above process.
 * 2) Rearrange question order by clicking the up and down arrow buttons on the right hand side of the question editor.
 * 3) Edit a previous question simply by clicking on it to reopen the editor tools. Delete a question by clicking the "X" button on the right hand side of the question editor.
 * 4) Complete your quiz by clicking "Save and Exit" at the top of the page.

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Administering a Quiz

 * 1) From the Teacher page, click "Dashboard" on the top toolbar.
 * 2) Select a quiz from your library.
 * 3) Choose your quiz type preference (not permanent: can change each time you administer a quiz):
 * Student Paced - Immediate Feedback
 * "Students receive immediate right/wrong feedback and explanations after they answer each question. Students answer questions in order and cannot skip or change their answers. You are able to monitor their progress via a Live Results Table."
 * Quiz is self-paced for students; students can take as much or as little time answering questions as they individually prefer
 * Teacher can click "Finish" to end the quiz for all students at any time
 * Student Paced - Student Navigation
 * "Students have the ability to edit questions, skip questions and navigate the 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."
 * Quiz is self-paced for students; students can take as much or as little time answering questions as they individually prefer.
 * Students can go back and forth between questions before submitting all their answers, similar to a paper-pencil test.
 * Teacher can click "Finish" to end the quiz for all students at any time.
 * Teacher Paced
 * "Teachers control the flow of questions. You send one question at a time, and visualize the responses as they happen. You can skip and revisit questions."
 * Teachers control the progression of questions for the whole class simultaneously
 * Options for All Quiz Types:
 * Disable Student Names: either allow students to enter their names for you to track individual student data or do not allow students to enter their names on their devices by keeping names and responses anonymous
 * Randomize Question Order: either keep questions in the order you placed them or allow Socrative to deliver questions in a randomized order
 * Randomize Answer Order: either keep answer choices within each question in the order you placed them or allow Socrative to randomize the order of the answer choices
 * Disable Student Feedback: either allow students to receive immediate right/wrong feedback and explanations after they answer each question or turn this feature off (not available for Student Paced - Student Navigation).
 * 1) Click "Start" from your selected Quiz Type. If you previously conducted an activity and forgot to click "Finish," you will get an alert that says you have another activity in progress. If you would like to continue anyway, click "Confirm."
 * 2) **FOR STUDENTS TO TAKE THE QUIZ:** They will need to go to the Socrative Student page and log in using your Room Code, which is displayed at the top of your toolbar. Your room code never changes (unless you change it manually in your profile settings), so you can also post it somewhere in your room for students to access. If students log in to the room code when a quiz or question is NOT in progress, they will see a waiting screen. Unless you have disabled student names, they will need to type in their name. Then, they will be able to answer the questions.
 * 3) For both Student Paced quiz types, you will be able to see student responses in real time. For Teacher Paced quizzes, you will be able to progress through each question one at a time to automatically move students to the next question on their devices.
 * 4) During quiz administration, you have many different viewing options for the results table:
 * Choose to view/display individual student responses as right/wrong or hide student responses from the results table.
 * Organize student names by ascending or descending alphabetical order
 * Choose to display each student's progress (percentage of quiz completion) or score (percentage of correct responses) in real time.
 * View student responses to individual questions by clicking on the question number.
 * The overall class percentage of correct responses will be displayed on the results table beneath the last student's name in the "Class Total" row.
 * 1) When you are ready to end the quiz administration, click Finish.

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Other Question Administration Options

 * Quick Question: this option is great for on-the-spot data collection if you haven't previously created a quiz with this question. This option is similar to a quiz because you can choose one of the three question types (multiple choice, true/false, or short answer) but this option only lets you pose one question at a time. Additionally, you will not get the same comprehensive student response data because you will not be able to designate a correct answer. You will get to see data in real time but not save it to view later.
 * Space Race: this is a fun option to display student progress through quiz if you want students to be able to answer quickly. An icon for each "team" (can be individual students or groups of students) will move forward with each correct answer; the first team to make it to the end wins.
 * Select one of your pre-made quizzes.
 * Select the number of teams competing (minimum 2, maximum 20).
 * Auto-assign or student-assign teams: good to keep track of how the teams were created. Did students choose friends? Did you assign peer helpers or use flexible grouping?
 * Choose the icon that will race across the screen: Rocket, Bear, Bicycle, Bee, Unicorn, or Spaceship
 * Hide Student Right/Wrong Feedback: Yes means students will not know if they got the question right or wrong and their icon will move simply from submitting an answer. No means students will be able to see if they got a question right or wrong immediately after they answer and their icon will move only when a question is answered correctly.
 * When you are done you can see the response data just like a normal quiz administration
 * Exit Ticket: this option does not correspond to a teacher-made question, but instead lets students respond with "Totally got it," "Pretty well," "Not very well," or "Not at all." Because it does not correspond to a specific question or teacher-made answer choices, this is a quick and easy way to gauge how well your students understood a concept from that day's lesson.

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Right after you've finished any question administration, you are given three options: Get Reports, View Chart, and To Dashboard.
 * Get reports gives you a detailed report of the student response data:
 * Choose the format(s) you would like to view your results: Whole Class Excel, Individual Student(s) PDF, Question Specific PDF
 * Choose how you would like to receive your results: Email, file download(s), Google Drive (if you sign in using Google).
 * If you choose to download more than one file type, they will all be downloaded together in a .zip file.
 * View Chart brings you back to the results table that is shown during Live Results.
 * To Dashboard lets you save the data but exit the quiz without looking at the data.

You can find the data later by clicking clicking "Manage Quizzes" on the top toolbar of the teacher page, then "Get Reports," then selecting the particular administration time and date you need to view. You can sort between type of question administration (Recent, All, Quizzes, Space Races, Exit Tickets, Short Answers, Archived).

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Shared Music Assessments
List quiz codes from any quizzes you have created so that others may copy and use in their own classrooms!


 * 3rd Grade Melody Pre-Test: SOC-16603265

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Resources

 * Socrative User Guide
 * Socrative Help Guide

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