Discourse has a quick and easy markdown-based poll feature: http://try.discourse.org/t/poll-do-you-have-polls/172
Of course, you need a discourse forum running to use this, but you could add as many polls as you want in a forum thread, and the forum might be useful in other ways. On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 7:46 AM Maxime Boissonneault < [email protected]> wrote: > It does not. At least according to the video, you can do "quick question", > which you enter on the fly. > > > Le 2015-09-04 10:45, Lex Nederbragt a écrit : > > 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... > > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing > [email protected]http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org > > > > -- > --------------------------------- > Maxime Boissonneault > 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 > > > > > -- > --------------------------------- > Maxime Boissonneault > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > > http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org
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