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

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> 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.
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>
> 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...
>>
>>
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