Formative Assessment tools for use in the classroom

1. Fabulous
Formative
Assessment
Tools
Rachel Smith
Ramsey Grammar School
Isle of Man

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. Socrative
Socrative Shared quizzes doc

6. Socrative

7. Socrative

8. Socrative

9. Socrative

10. 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

11. 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

12. Answer Garden
Click here and type
in your question

13. Answer Garden
This is how you share your
question. You can also get
an embed code

14. Answer Garden

15. 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

16. 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

17. Plickers
In order for Plickers to work you have to add
class lists. You can do it in the app or via the
website.

18. Plickers

19. Plickers

20. Plickers

21. 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

22. Plickers
A tick appears here
when students answer
has registered

23. Plickers
At the end of the session go to reports to see
how your students got on.

24. 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.

25. Educanon
 Sets of questions in Educanon are called
bulbs

26. Educanon

27. Educanon Play video and use the crop
video feature to cut out any
bits you don’t want
When finished tap finish
build

28. Educanon
Go to bulbs to find your video. Tap on it. We are now
going to add questions.

29. 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.

30. 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.

31. Educanon
This is what the
students see. They
type their name in
and tap no email

32. Educanon
Tap monitor
Tap select your class
Tap unassigned
Tap select bulb
Choose the bulb that you
would like students to do.

33. 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.

34. Nearpod

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37. 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!

38. Fabulous
Formative
Assessment
Tools
Rachel Smith
Ramsey Grammar School
Isle of Man
Thank
You!