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Socrative (socrative.com)
Positives Since the district uses Schoology as their LMS, this website transfers all grades to the online grade book. The sync feature is enormously convenient when I needed to give feedback to my students or gather information quickly about a topic in order to inform my next day instruction. Google Forms are extremely easy to use and implement in the classroom. My students already have a Google Drive account through the district so signing in a completing the exit tickets took hardly any time out of the class period. Google Forms also provides several more options for assessment which offers a wider variety of evaluation. In addition, the responses are put into a spread sheet for easy review and transfer to the grade book. Socrative provides a wider variety of ways that students can complete the exit ticket. This website does not need to be
Negatives The negative piece of Schoology would be the cost of the LMS. Because the district pays for it it is easy to use, but if you are not already using it, there is a cost for those features.
The down side to Socrative is the limited kinds of questions that can be asked. In addition, if a
Exittix.com (www.exittix.com)
accessed through a computer. Instead, students can use their phones or tablets to complete the ticket. By using Socrative and allowing my students to use their phones, the engagement level for the ticket was automatically higher. Finally, Socrative puts out their results in a spreadsheet that can be imported directly into the district grade book, so no extra time for grading would be necessary. This new website is excellent for exit tickets because of the amount of data that each teacher receives before, during and after the exit ticket. Teachers can create rubrics, align with standards and constantly be informed about what students are doing. There is also a wide variety of support available on the site because it is so new.
student was absent and needed to take the ticket at a later date, setting up the ticket to be taken each additional time can become quite a hassle.
Free Response
Because this website is new and offers so many features, teachers would need to take the time to understand everything that is offered, which can be overwhelming. If a teacher were to simply dig straight in to the site without exploring it first, they would miss out on everything that can be offered. Wall Wisher is very limited in the amount of
participate with a short free response. Because it is in the form of post it notes on a bulletin board, students enjoy interacting with the site more than some of the others.
assessment that can be taken from the site. It is external from the grade book and provides an inconvenient way to give feedback to students.