Handout guiding the usage of Socrative web 2.0 tool.

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Lebanese University
Faculty of Pedagogy
Educational Technology
Master 1
Socrative
Web 2.0 Tool
Presented by: Yasmine El Zein
Presented to: Dr. Ibrahim El Kebbe
2017-2018

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Socrative is a classroom application for fun, effective classroom
engagement. No matter where or how you teach, Socrative allows you to
instantly connect with students as learning happens. It is a web-based platform
accessible on computers, laptops, tablets, and phones.
It offers the opportunity to assess students quickly with prepared activities or
on-the-fly questions to get immediate insight into student understanding. Then
use auto-populated results to determine the best instructional approach to
most effectively drive learning. Moreover, it helps you get instant insight into
student learning with easy-to-create quizzes, polls, exit tickets and more!
Socrative features are:
 On-the-fly questioning
 1 public room for your classes
 50 students per session
 Space Race assessment
 Formative assessments
 Visualize real-time results
 Device accessibility
 Reporting
 Share quizzes with SOC code
 Help Center access
 State & Common Core standards
It can help you as teachers in:
 Engaging your students as learning happens with your choice of activity
type.
 Launching a quiz, receiving exit tickets, or asking a quick question for
instant student feedback.
 Assessing your students with personalized content prepared ahead of
time. Selecting from quizzes they’ve used in the past, or quickly creating
a new one.
 Seeing how many students are logged into your virtual room with up to
50 students per activity.

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 Assessing or polling the students on the fly with multiple choice,
true/false, and short-answer questions. Or asking students to submit an
out-the-door exit ticket.
 Designing and editing your own library of assessments specifically for
your students.
 Quickly finding, copying, or downloading any quiz from a full A-Z list of
all activities in your Socrative account
 Sharing quizzes within your personalized learning network via unique
codes. Or exchanging assessments with the millions of Socrative users
around the world.
 Instantly selecting and launching any saved activity with just a click.
 Reviewing student understanding at the class, individual student, or
question-level. And, because each Socrative report is saved to your
account, you can quickly download, email, or transfer reports to Google
Drive anytime.
 Finding the information you need with advanced searching and sorting
features. Search by activity, student, or date.
 Downloading student and question-level PDFs to share results with
students or colleagues.
 Launching activities in easy-to-create virtual rooms to instantly engage
your students, whether they’re in class or learning remotely.
 Easily managing and restricting access to your classroom.
 Encouraging friendly competition among students with an intergalactic
quiz bowl.
 Turning any gradable assessment into a crowd-pleasing activity as
individuals or groups race across the screen with correct answers.
 Interacting easily with your class during the activity.
 Visualizing student understanding in the moment as student results
populate your screen in real time. Using the instant feedback to
determine next steps in your instruction.
 Viewing student and class-level performance as answers are submitted.
Responses are automatically graded for you and clearly displayed.

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 Using question number or class total percentage for a detailed question-
by-question view, as a basis for class discussion or to group students for
future instruction.
 Students instantly submitting answers and feedback directly to the
instructor in a clean, intuitive interface.
 Effectively engaging and assessing your students.
 Reviewing student understanding at the class, student, or question-level.

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How is Socrative used?
 Entry
o Free Sign up
o Login
 Teachers
 Students
 Quizzes
o Create a Quiz
o Share a Quiz
o Import a Quiz
 Launch
o Start a Quiz
o Space Race
o Quick Questions
 True / False
 Short Answer
 Start a Vote from a Short Answer
 Multiple Choice
o Exit Ticket
 Rooms
o Clear Students from a Public Room
 Reports
o By Email
o Download
o Google Drive

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Sign Up for a Free Account
How to Sign Up for a Free Account from the Website?
1. Go to www.socrative.com.
2. Click on Get a Free Account.
3. Enter the Account Info and click Next. Continue filling out the
Demographic Info and Account Type information and then click Submit.

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Log In To Socrative
How to Log In from the Socrative Website?
1. Go to www.socrative.com.
2. Click on Teacher Login.
3. Enter the email address and password for your Socrative account and
click Sign In.

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Student Login
How to Help Students Log In?
1. Go to www.socrative.com and click Student Login.
2. Have your students enter their unique Room Name into the
corresponding field, then click Join Room.
3. As students join your “room”, they'll be able to participate in all of the
activities that you start until they are logged out.

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Create a New Quiz
How to Create a New Quiz?
1. Click on Quizzes.
2. Next, click on Add Quiz and select Create New.
3. Provide a name for your new quiz.
4. Select the appropriate Question Type button to add a question to the
quiz (e.g. Multiple Choice, True / False, or Short Answer).

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5. Type in your question and answer choices (when applicable). If you want
the question to be graded, do the following for these question types:
o Multiple Choice—Check the box to the right of the correct answer(s).
Note: You may choose multiple correct answers. Students will have
to select all the right answers in order to get the question correct.
o True/False—Select the correct answer (i.e. True or False).
o Short Answer—Type in the correct answer(s).
Note: Short Answer questions are only graded if one (or more)
answers have been provided for the question. In order to get the
question correct, students must type EXACTLY what you entered (this
is not case sensitive).

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6. When you’re finished, click Save & Exit. You can always go back and edit
your quiz later.
Note: You can also add a Common Core tag to your quiz, add an
explanation of the correct answer to a question, or add an image to a
question.

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Share Your Quiz
How to Share Your Quiz with Another Socrative User?
1. Click on Quizzes.
2. Next, select a quiz from the list; doing so opens the Edit Quiz window.
3. Make sure that the Enable Sharing toggle is on.
4. Copy the Enable Sharing SOC number
5. Now, just share the copied SOC number with your colleagues!

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Import a Quiz
How to Import a Quiz from another Socrative User?
1. Click on Quizzes
2. Next, click on Add Quiz and select Import.
3. Enter the “SOC” number of the shared quiz you want to import, then
click on Import Quiz.
4. Click Confirm to continue.
5. The imported quiz is added to Quizzes; it is now available and ready to
use.

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Start a Quiz
How to Start a Quiz?
1. Click on Launch, then click Quiz.
2. Select the quiz you want to run.
3. Select how you want to run your quiz:
o Instant Feedback—Students receive immediate right/wrong feedback
and explanations (if applicable) after every question. Students answer
questions in order and cannot skip or change their answers. You can
monitor their progress from the Live Results table.

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o Open Navigation—Students have the ability to skip questions, edit
their answers, and navigate the quiz at their own pace. Once they've
finished, they can submit the entire assessment. You can monitor
their progress from the Live Results table.
o Teacher Paced—You control the flow of questions; send one question
at a time and observe responses as they happen. You can also skip
and revisit questions.
4. You may choose (optional) Additional Settings using the toggle switches.
5. Click Start and your students will see the first question; you will see the
Live Results screen.

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6. When you are done with the activity, click Finish; your students can then
Log Out or await another question.
7. As you finish, you will be asked if you would like to Get Reports for the
current activity, click View Chart to see student results in a Live Results
format, or return To Launch.
8. If you choose to Get Reports, you'll be presented with additional report
options. Select the desired report type and then decide how you would
like to receive your reports (e.g. Email, Download, or Google Drive).

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Deliver a Space Race
How to Run a Space Race?
1. Click on Launch, then click on Space Race.
2. Select the quiz you want to deliver as a Space Race.
Note: Be sure the quiz you select has graded questions or else the
rockets won’t move.
3. Choose the number of teams. Students can:
o Play by themselves on their own computer or mobile device.
o Play together by sharing a single computer or mobile device or by
answering on separate computers or mobile devices.

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4. Decide whether you want your students to choose their own teams or
be randomly assigned to one.
Note: If you choose auto-assign and there are more students than the
number of teams, Socrative will attempt to split them evenly between
teams.
5. If you want to turn off the Immediate Feedback dialog to speed up the
game, switch the following toggles from YES to NO.
6. Click on Start to begin the race!
Note: Make sure your screen is projected so students can watch their
progress.

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7. When you are done with the Space Race activity, click Finish; your
students can then Log Out or await another question.
8. As you finish, you will be asked if you would like to Get Reports for the
current activity, click View Chart to see student results in a Live Results
format, or return To Launch.
9. If you choose to Get Reports, you'll be presented with additional report
options. Select the desired report type and then decide how you would
like to receive your reports (e.g. Email, Download, or Google Drive).

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Deliver True / False Quick Questions
How to Deliver True / False Quick Questions?
1. Click on Launch, then click True/False.
2. True or false choices are sent directly to students who are logged into
your room.
3. When your students are finished, they click Submit Answer and Live
Results are updated on your screen in real time.

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4. When you are done with the true or false activity, click on Finish; your
students can then Log Out or await another question.

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Deliver Short Answer Quick Questions
How to Deliver Short Answer Quick Questions?
1. Click on Launch, then click Short Answer.
2. Enter your question in the text box. This is optional; you can leave the
Question field blank and ask your students a question out loud.
3. Next, select the number of responses allowed per student. Keeping the
Allow Unlimited Responses button toggled off (default) allows only one
response per student; toggle the button on to allow students to respond
as many times as they want.

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4. To allow students to answer anonymously, keep the Require Student
Names button toggled off (default); toggle the button on to make
students provide their names.
Note: If you require names, they will be hidden during Live Results until
you decide to Show Names.
5. Click Start and a response field (and your question, if you provided one)
is sent directly to the students who are logged into your room.
6. When your students are finished, they click Submit Answer and Live
Results are updated on your screen in real time.
7. You can hide a response from Live Results by clicking on Remove to the
right of the response. Although they will be hidden on your screen, these
responses will still appear in your reports.

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8. You can also ask students to vote on answers based on whatever criteria
you choose (such as the most incorrect response) and see the results on
your screen in real time.
9. When you are done with the short answer activity, click Finish; your
students can then Log Out or await another question.
10.As you finish, you will be asked if you would like to Get Reports for the
current activity or return To Launch.
11.If you choose to Get Reports, you'll be presented with additional report
options. Select the desired report type and then decide how you would
like to receive your reports (e.g. Email, Download, or Google Drive).

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Start a Vote from a Short Answer Quick Question
When delivering a Short Answer Quick Question, you have the option to
complete the activity with a follow-up vote based on the student answers
using whatever criteria you choose. For example, you can have your students
vote on the response that they feel is the most valuable or the most incorrect.
The results of your student votes will appear on your screen in real time.
How to Start a Vote From a Short Answer Quick Question?
1. When your students have finished responding to the Short Answer
question, click Start Vote.
2. Your students will be presented with the class responses as multiple
choice questions.

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3. Ask your students to select an answer based on whatever criteria you
choose (such as the best or most incorrect response). You'll see the
voting results appear on your screen in real time.
Note: Students can select multiple answers, but may only submit one
vote.
4. When you are done with the voting activity, click Finish; your students
can then Log Out or await another question.
5. As you finish, you will be asked if you would like to Get Reports for the
current activity or return To Launch.
6. If you choose to Get Reports, you'll be presented with additional report
options. Select the desired report type and then decide how you would
like to receive your reports (e.g. Email, Download, or Google Drive).

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Deliver Multiple Choice Quick Questions
How to Deliver Multiple Choice Quick Questions?
1. Click on Launch, then click on Multiple Choice.
2. Multiple choice options are sent directly to the students who are logged
into your room.
3. When your students are finished, they click Submit Answer and Live
Results are updated on your screen in real time.
Note: Students can only click Submit Answer once, but can select
multiple items.

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4. When you are done with the multiple choice activity, click on Finish;
your students can then Log Out or await another question.

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Deliver an Exit Ticket
Exit tickets are an effective way to gather end-of-class feedback, giving
students an opportunity to demonstrate what they've learned and for you to
be sure that all teaching objectives were met. They can be used to adjust
homework assignments or clear up misconceptions.
How to Deliver an Exit Ticket?
1. Click on Launch, then click Exit Ticket.
2. Socrative's default Exit Ticket presents students with the following three
questions:
o How well did you understand today's material? (1 of 3)
o What did you learn in today's class? (2 of 3)
o Please answer the teacher’s question. (3 of 3)

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3. As your students click Submit Answer, Live Results are updated on your
screen in real time.
4. Once all your students are done responding, click Finish.

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5. As you finish, you will be asked if you would like to Get Reports for the exit
ticket, click View Chart to see student results in a Live Results format, or
return To Launch.
6. If you choose to Get Reports, you'll be presented with additional report
options. Select the desired report type and then decide how you would like
to receive your reports (e.g. Email, Download, or Google Drive).
7. Your students will now see the Waiting for Teacher window; students can
then Log Out.

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Clear Students from a Public Room
How to Clear Your Room?
1. Click on the Roster menu in the top-right of the header and select Clear
Room.
2. When prompted, click Yes to clear the room.
3. All the students currently logged in to your room will be immediately
logged out.

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Get Reports
How to Get Reports?
1. Click on Reports.
2. Next, find the completed quiz or activity for which you would like a
report and click the Results icon to the right. The Reports dialog will
appear.

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3. Click on Get Reports for some additional reporting options.
4. When gathering activity reports, choose one (or more) of the following
report types by toggling the buttons on or off:
o Whole Class Excel reports show a detailed view of the entire quiz in
one spreadsheet, including:
 Each student's graded responses.
 Each student's total score.
 Each student's number of correct answers.
 Whole class's total score.
 Average number of correct answers for the whole class.
 Percent correct on each question for the whole class.
o Individual Student(s) PDF reports provide a PDF of each students’
fully-graded quiz.
o Question-Specific PDF reports provide the response data for each
question in a full-quiz format.
5. Click Email and a report for the selected activity will be sent to the email
address you have specified in your Socrative Profile settings.

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Click Download and a report for the selected activity will be downloaded
directly to the device you are using.
Click Google Drive and the reports you chose will be sent directly to your
Google Drive in a folder called “Socrative Reports”.

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References
 www.socrative.com
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mb4TDQwPLbY
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyycybD8KNw
 http://www.ovcs.org/Downloads/Socrative%20Teacher%20Instructions.
pdf
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlnI1f-Q1JM