Online quizzes in the digital classroom

During the course "Spice up your lessons with EdTech", we learnt three different tools to assess our students' progress:

1) Google Forms Quizzes:

We can use Google forms is a nice way to create online tests. You can make open-ended questions or multiple-choices about any topic. You can also include texts, audio tracks, videos, files, etc. It's a great tool as it saves teachers' time because you get automatic correction and the statistics on how well each student did at each of the questions. There are also different types of activities available: dragging, matching, choosing the correct option...

2) Socrative: 

Socrative is a very interesting tool that allows teachers to devise digital competition-like quizzes -similar to Kahoot, but it includes many more options. It's very interesting for teachers because you can get the students' feedback on an excel file, it allows you to print the quizzes, you can see each student's progress while they're doing the quiz on the screen. It is a nice way to revise any content at the end of a particular unit in an engaging way.

3) Plickers

Plickers is a great app that allows teachers to make tests in a very easy and dyanamic way for students. Kinaesthetic students will love it! Each student gets a printed code which contains four options (a, b, c and d). Every student has a different code, so they can't cheat. Then, the teacher scans all the students codes (they must put the codes up) and all the answers are automatically given to the teacher. It's great for shy students as the names are not shown on the screen. Then, the teacher can get the results of all the students in a particular class. I WILL DEFINITELY USE IT IN MY CLASSES! It's a lovely and engaging app for students!