> 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... >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Discuss mailing list >>>> [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
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