> On 4 Sep 2015, at 16:55, Noam Ross <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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.
Hmm... Can you disable viewing of responses while people answer? Lex >> 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 (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 >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org
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