The number of students in my online classes vary from a few students, to hundreds and upto 800 students. Socrative in general is my goto platform for synchronous student quizzes. But Socrative has a limitation of 150 students.
This was when I discovered freeonlinesurveys.com. This is a basic Quiz and Survey platform which can cater to 1,000 students under the free option.
Once signup to freeonlinesurveys.com creating a quiz is a breeze. There is a range of of Question Types that you can setup.
Most of my questions are typically Multi-Choice (Single Select). The following is a sample Quiz that I setup for my online class.
Once the Quiz is made the next option is to make the Quiz Live by selecting the Send Option. I would do this before a webinar session.
You get the url and even a QR code for the Quiz. I am now loving the interactivity that QR codes bring to my online classroom.
Unsurprisingly Quiz Time is the favourite interaction of my online students. They get to interact with the Quizes through an interface as shown below.
The key part of the lecture is the feedback session where we discuss the student answers during the webinar.
The graphs are clear and intuitive. You have a way to including points to indicate the answer. Since these are simple quizzes meant for interaction I generally do not include points. The graph below is from a question that has true/false answers for each item. The bars which are higher are the true answers and the bars which are lower are the false answers. From this chart I can clearly see some students found the grey, green and yellow answers wrong and that allowed me to elaborate more on the parts that students found it difficult to answer.
I can clear the student answers when I am reusing the quiz for a different group of students. We generally have at least two quizzes based on the content we cover. The first one is a quiz we run at the beginning of the webinar to check if students can remember concepts from the previous lecture and we run the second one towards the end of the webinar checking the knowledge of what students have grasped during the lecture.
Generally we only limit the quizzes to around 4 to 5 straightforward questions as the objective is to focus on interactivity. This provides us an opportunity to ensure that the students achieve the learning outcomes as we can summarise on the key points of the lecture through the quizzes we have.
Over 90% of the students claimed Quizes were very effective. In fact in our survey this was the most popular interactive mechanism that the students preferred.
freeonlinesurveys.com has a paid option which allows you to go beyond the 1,000 participants limitation, Quiz Scoring and many other features.
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