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Socrative

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Last week, I joined a regional group, that are meeting to discuss new best practices in FE. One aspect of this is new technologies. We were discussing quizzing tools and I heard about Plickers, which I definitely want to try out. Once I've given it a go, I'll post about it. One quizzing tool that I really like and use a fair bit, is Socrative . It's free but you have to register and create an account. Then you log in as a teacher, create your quizzes and save them. Once in a classroom or training situation, participants can use their mobile devices or a PC to access the student app. I usually project the teacher view onto the board. Once registered, you have a room number allocated and students just log in to that room to join in the quiz. Questions You can create multiple choice, true/false or short answer questions. Just click on the type you want and then use the interface to add questions, answers and correct responses. Multiple choice questions can have one...