Not as far as I can tell On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 8:02 AM Lex Nederbragt <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > 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 >> <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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