Hi Lex,
Have you given Socrative.com a shot ?
Maxime Boissonneault
Le 2015-09-04 10:37, Lex Nederbragt a écrit :
Hi,
As I wrote elsewhere
<https://flxlexblog.wordpress.com/2015/08/31/active-learning-strategies-for-bioinformatics-teaching-2/> (thanks
to Greg for mentioning this post on the SWC blog), for collecting
answers to the multiple choice questions I ask during the workshops I
teach, I use a very simple google form with no question-text, and four
answers: ‘option 1, option 2, option 3, option 4’. The ‘summary of
responses’ option from google allows me to show students the tally of
responses. For the second round of voting, and for each next question,
I simply delete all responses.
The reason I am doing this is that it saves me from having to enter
all possible questions in forms, and gives me the flexibility to
decide on the spot which question from the available set I ask (in one
case I had prepared a slide for each question in the unix lesson, in
another I simply used the projector to show the question from the SWC
unix lesson page in the browser). This works very well as an
instructor and is easy enough to do. One tip: don’t show the tally
before everyone has answered (use a separate laptop/tablet for
yourself, or freeze the projectorscreen while you check the responses).
One drawback is that I loose all votes for future reference (ie.
figuring out which question was too say or too hard)[1].
I can’t help thinking, though, that in 2015 we should be able to do
this in a better way. I have for a long time hoped for a
markdown-based questionnaire system: write questions in markdown, and
render these into an online form for collecting answers, coupled with
a way to retrieve all answers in text files. This would make it much
easier to reorganise/reuse questions, and would allow version
control/diff/pull requests. Does anyone know whether there is such a
software?
If not, could this be an SWC-inspired coding project? We would really
be helped by a system that pulls the questions from the instructor’s
clone of the lesson material repo and auto-generates forms for each
workshop. Maybe a long shot, but I though it worth asking.
Lex
[1] Well, in fact, even after resetting the responses, you can still
see all answers in the underlying google spreadsheet, and use the
timestamps to reverse engineer which question you asked for which set
of ansers. Or take screenshots along the way. Still, rather impractical...
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Analyste de calcul - Calcul Québec, Université Laval
Instructeur Software Carpentry
Président - Comité de coordination du soutien à la recherche de Calcul Québec
Ph. D. en physique
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