Review of Socrative/Educreations

Description: Socrative is an application that is available for use on most devices, including PCs, tablets, and smartphones. The teacher is required to make an account, and is then assigned a "room number." Students may then access any quizzes made by the teacher by visiting the Socrative website and inputting the teacher's room number. Teachers may create quizzes or surveys, and can then receive real-time results about students' answers and may also choose to receive a spreadsheet of all the students' results.

Pros: The benefits of Socrative are that teachers can receive quick and accurate assessments of students almost instantly. By simply putting the assessment on smartphones, students are instantly engaged. Also, if some students do not have smartphones, once completed, a phone can seamlessly be passed to another student to be taken again.

Cons: Setting up a quiz is a little arduous. Also, if there is a delay on the teacher's part, the whole class has to wait to begin the activity. Finally, some students may take a long time to finish, thereby holding up the class.

Overall feeling: I think that the ease of use of Socrative, as well as the student engagement it promotes, outweigh any downsides to this software. It is such a simple and easy way to get information quickly and accurately from students. It even mails you results instantly, or can show you before students are even finished. I can't say enough about how great this application is.