I spotted the limitation about sharing questions when reading through the feature requests. I agree that that's a significant limitation.
> On Feb 4, 2017, at 3:58 AM, DVD PS <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Jonathan, > > Plickers indeed looks quite cool, mostly on how simple it's to set up. I > think it could be very useful in classrooms that the attendees are without > computers/mobiles (or you don't want them to be checking their favourite > social media while pretending to be answering a question). The only problem > I've found in a quick test on the app is that there's not a way to share > questions with other instructors, so you are locking your questions in your > account and makes the task to upload the questions only by doing so one by > one manually. I've digged a bit and found that such feature is one of the > most asked - and they recognised that more than a year ago: > > - > https://plickers.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/214633907-Feature-Request-Sharing-Questions- > > And in the feature request page this seems to be even from more that 2 years > ago and multiple ones: > > - > https://plickers.uservoice.com/forums/194176-ideas/suggestions/6445678-allow-teachers-to-share-questions-with-each-other > - > https://plickers.uservoice.com/forums/194176-ideas/suggestions/16323895-share-questions-with-other-teachers > - > https://plickers.uservoice.com/forums/194176-ideas/suggestions/12307365-sharing-my-plicker-library-with-other-teachers > - > https://plickers.uservoice.com/forums/194176-ideas/suggestions/7012455-publicly-shared-library-of-questions > > I think a must in any teaching tool is to be able to share your work with > others, either within your team/school/institution or globally. If that > cannot be done then, for me, it's a waste of energy. > > I've used a similar tool that I discovered in this mailing list for the last > 4 swc workshops: Socrative. The students need a computer to register their > answers but they don't need to create an account nor pur their real names. > There you have multiple modes on how to run the questions. I have only used > the "Teacher paced" and I have many of the questions duplicated, so for each > of these I ask them once - show the distribution of the results in the screen > - and ask them to answer it again in pairs. The distribution then move all > towards the correct question. > What's make socrative amazing is exaclty what I was complaining above of > plickers, you can share publicly the questions and other people can edit > these and make them better :) > > https://socrative.com/ > > Cheers, > David > > > On 3 February 2017 at 02:45, Guyer, Jonathan E. Dr. (Fed) > <[email protected]> wrote: > I just returned from an overview of the math curriculum at my daughter's > elementary school. The teacher was using a smartphone app and cards from > https://plickers.com/ to scan the parents for answers to multiple-choice > questions. Basically everybody gets a card with a unique pattern on it (sort > of like a QR code). Depending on which way you hold it up, the smartphone app > scanning across the room reads A,B,C,D and tallies answers live on their > website. It seemed pretty cool. You can use it both for anonymous polling or > you can can grade students by tracking which unique card they have. > > It seemed pretty cool and like it could integrate well into the Carpentry > style of teaching. Has anybody used it? > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.software-carpentry.org/listinfo/discuss > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.software-carpentry.org/listinfo/discuss
