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SOCRATIVE

Overview Socrative is a cloud-based student response system developed in 2010 by Boston-based graduate school students. It allows teachers to create simple quizzes that students can take quickly on laptops – or, more often, via classroom tablet computers or their own smartphones. That makes these devices a more robust replacement for special purpose “clickers.” “I can assess on the fly and best of all, students can use their portable media to provide me with near instant feedback,” writes one teacher blogger . “Clickers do this but the benefit of Socrative is that students do not have to buy anything and I do not have to spend a lot of time developing quizzes using any certain format.” Quizzes can be true/false, multiple choice, graded short answer or allow open-ended short responses. Activities can either be teacher-paced (for use during a classroom discussion) or student-paced (for use as a more traditional class-end “exit ticket” or quiz). There’s also a gaming element: the “Sp...

QUIZLET

Quizlet is a mobile and web-based study application that allows students to study information via learning tools and games. ... Quizlet trains students via flashcards and various games and tests. As of April 30, 2018, Quizlet has over 200 million user-generated flashcard sets and more than 30 million active users.

CANVA

Canva is a tool that makes it possible to design anything and publish anywhere. With its user-friendly drag and drop tool and thousands of customizable templates, over 400 million designs from more than 10 million users across 179 countries have been created with Canva so far. Canva is available in 100 languages and can be accessed in desktop browsers and mobile apps. This makes Canva accessible to practically everyone with Internet connection.

KAHOOT

Kahoot ! is a tool for using technology to administer quizzes, discussions or surveys. It is a game based classroom response system played by the whole class in real time. Multiple-choice questions are projected on the screen. Students answer the questions with their smartphone, tablet or computer. If you want to play my Kahoot game please click  here .