Socrative is a unique and effective alternative to traditional quizzing and testing, which provides an entertaining twist for students while being easy to moderate and control by teachers. It is an online, free quiz service that allows teachers to create quizzes in several formats, including multiple choice, short answer, true-and-false, exit ticket, and games that can be played both as teams, or individually by students. The website can be accessed either exclusively by a Google login, or by making an account directly with Socrates. Once you make your account you’ll immediately be greeted by the launch page, complete with your own starting access code, and a quick selection of the available quizzes. The website allows for a combination of answer types including multiple choice, True and False, and Short Answer. It also allows pictures to be added to enhance the depth of the question. The benefits don’t end there, Socrative also allows different ways for the quizzes to be administered, such as allowing students to take the quiz at their own pace, you can administer each question individually at your pace, and even set it to allow the students to skip, edit, and submit the questions on the quiz as they take it, all of these supplemented by the live results table, which allows you to see exactly who answers which questions, and what they answered.
Final Thoughts: Socrative is a unique and very capable tool to improve any classroom, and features just the right level of usability to be a viable resource in the classroom every day. PROS:
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Photomath is a brilliant, free app built to end your suffering over math problems for hours on end. Point your phone's camera at a math problem, and the app will both answer the problem and show you a step-by-step explanation. The only downside to this app is that it does not answer handwritten problems — only those appearing in a textbook. It also doesn't answer more advanced math problems, but fraction, linear, decimal and logarithm equations are fair game.
Ck-12 is a website that allows for students from grades kindergarten to 12th grade to interact with educational content that ranges from text, video, audio, images, quizzes and interactive materials. All which cover math, science, English, and much more. CK-12 frees schools from traditional textbooks and offers a variety of no-cost STEM resources that are sure to enhance student learning. Just go the website www.ck12.org/student to create an account using your Microsoft email and you're good to go. After setting up an account, you are able to navigate the site and begin using it's wonderful resources. If you are a teacher you can go to www.ck12.org/teacher and explore the other side of Ck-12.
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