> 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...
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
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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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