I have seen it in action, but it requires me to enter the questions I want to
ask beforehand - or ask blank questions as I already do with the google form...
Alternatives are kahoot.it (more playful) and mentimeter ($, I have access
through my university).
Lex
> On 04 Sep 2015, at 16:40, Maxime Boissonneault
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 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
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