Wednesday, June 27, 2018

The Socrative Tool

The Socrative application has various features that can not only enhance the student-teacher relationship but also improve the learning process. Socrative also makes teaching easier, fun, and enjoyable no matter where one is. Some of the key features include activities, quizzes, reporting tools, virtual study rooms, and student experience platforms among others.

Socrative enables the teachers to choose activities that suit their needs, and engage their students. For instance, the educator can ask an instant question for quick student response to see how well the students understood a certain topic that they taught in class.

Using Socrative the platform, the teacher can create their own folders of the quizzes that they have developed on their own as assessments for their students. The quizzes can then be saved in the teacher’s Socrative account and can be used at any time. Different folders can contain different topics or subjects, and this makes the work easier since the teacher does not have to struggle much when they are looking for quizzes.

The reporting feature in the Socrative application enables the teachers to generate learning-based reports. For instance, an educator can generate a report based on the review of Student (s) understanding in class. What is more, the Socrative app enables an educator to store such reports in their accounts and access them easily by downloading and emailing, among other ways.

Moreover, the Socrative app enables one to create rooms that facilitate virtual communication between the students and the teachers. Interestingly, those rooms enable the students and the teacher (s) to engage wherever they are. This means that either the student or the teacher can be located remotely yet, participate in any learning activity that the educator has chosen. Joining these rooms requires the teacher to give their students the unique code.

Given the preceding, Socrative can be a resourceful tool for teaching and learning. It can be used in a school library setting to enable the students to find what they want to read easily. For instance, a virtual room can be created and the students can ask the librarian where a certain book can be found. This will minimize the time the students take to search for a certain information resource in the library. Moreover, the Socrative app can save various books, readings, journals, and articles so that the students can access them online. As such, students will only have to go to the library’s computer and log in to Socrative and search the books they want to read.

Lastly, teachers can use the Socrative app in the classroom to promote students’ engagement and understanding. For instance, teachers can share various images with each student in the classroom through Socrative instead of showing just one on the blackboard. This will ensure that every student is engaged in the learning process. Apart from facilitating the students’ understanding, Socrative reduces boredom when each student has a chance to participate in a certain activity at the same time without moving from one place to another.


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