> On 4 Sep 2015, at 16:46, 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. 

Ah that looks useful!  But you can't ask a quick multiple choice question 
AFAICT, but it's interesting you can turn the responses into one:
http://help.socrative.com/article/run-short-answer-quick-questions/

Thanks!

   Lex


> 
> 
> 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 (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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>>> 
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>>> ---------------------------------
>>> 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
> 
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> 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
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