What is Socrative?
Your classroom app for fun, effective engagement and on-the-fly assessments. Socrative provides an efficient way to monitor and evaluate learning that saves time for educators while delivering fun and engaging interactions for learners.
Immediate feedback is a vital part of the learning process. Quickly and easily create a library of personalized activities from quizzes to polls, to on-the-fly questions or whatever type of activity you need to quickly assess student understanding.
Launch activities in secure and easy to create rooms to keep your class engaged, whether you're teaching in-person, remotely, or both. When activities are complete, quiz results can be distributed to learners with just a few clicks.
Socrative quizzes are automatically graded in real time providing you with instant feedback. Socrative quiz reports allow to quickly identify where you need to adjust your teaching based on the results so you spend less time grading assignments and more time engaging your learners.
Socrative is 100% free for students to use, on all devices.
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Carla Jesus
Teacher
Used Socrative occasionally for 5 years+
Mar 2024
This tool is fantastic but you don't have the possibility to pay month by month that is not good for individual teachers
Carla Jesus found Socrative:
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“Evaluation tests”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“The correction is done with more accuracy”
- Slightly improves attainment
- Significantly builds student knowledge
Mar 2024
I would like a feature (and all instructors here) that would detect when a student changes to another browser window during a quiz/test. This would allow us to closer monitor for cheating, since they will look for answers using a variety of sites. I would like this to be an option you can turn on/off since some tests we allow them to click off of test. This should appear as a warning on the overview screen.
Jay found Socrative:
- Slightly reduces teacher workload“Makes it easy to implement tests.”
- Slightly improves teaching efficiency“Can see what questions the group has problems with.”
- Slightly improves attainment“No”
- Slightly builds student knowledge“Not necessarily, the test questions help”
Feb 2024
It is vaery easy to make quizzes manually in Socrative, and I can share them with colleagues, but I will be exploring other options because I need better upload to the LMS at my university, which is changing to D2L Brightspace in the Fall.
KDenniston found Socrative:
- Does not significantly reduce teacher workload“I use Socrative to track attendance because students cannot change their answer after typing into the quiz causing issues when I want to use the quiz for a grade. I upload each quiz result separately into my university's LMS. This takes too much time. It would be better to link directly to the LMS or collate the quiz results into one excel file on Socrative. This would allow me to upload one file instead of 20 at the end of the term. Also, when I used the roster, there was always 1 or 2 students who could not connect to the quiz, and I have stopped using the roster. This wastes more of my time when I try to upload. I am exploring an alternative such as MS Forms to see if I can save time doing this.”
- Slightly improves teaching efficiency“It takes time from lecture. I wish I could use a test bank to output the questions and upload them directly. Having to use a template is problematic.”
- Does not significantly improve attainment
- Does not significantly build student knowledge“It allows more interaction, but it is not reliable for quizzes.”
Patricia Stampe
Professor
Used Socrative weekly for 3-4 years
Feb 2024
I would really like it if it were possible for me to put a time limit on each quiz question within a quiz in teacher-paced mode to make the class roll more smoothly. As it is, I need to keep saying, ok, just a few more seconds,......
Patricia Stampe found Socrative:
- Slightly reduces teacher workload“Doesn't really change my workload but allows me realtime assessment of student learning of concepts”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“feedback on understanding without pausing class to poll the students verbally”
- Moderately improves attainment“Allows me to reteach concepts that the students are clearly not understanding.”
- Moderately builds student knowledge“again, allows me to determine numerically what portion of the class understands a concept before I move on to another topic”
Tim
English teacher
Used Socrative weekly for 3-4 years
Feb 2024
There are some difficulties with it. Specifically in returning student scores and assessments, but most especially an inability to edit quizzes while or after they are being given. Google Forms allows for this and I'll often use that app instead of Socrative for that reason.
Tim found Socrative:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Great for student review, quizzes, and tests”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“Allows me to more quickly grade and give feedback”
- Significantly improves attainment“Students are able to review information in a helpful format”
- Slightly builds student knowledge“More retaining information given in other ways, rather than gaining new knowledge”
Jan 2024
love this system
Glen found Socrative:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“no need to mark quizes”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“ease of launching from a bank of tests”
- Significantly improves attainment“practice testing aids in test taking”
- Significantly builds student knowledge
Jan 2024
very happy with the system
Glen found Socrative:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“instant marking”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“time saved on testing”
- Significantly improves attainment“easily used by inexperienced students”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“having a bank of practice testing”
Mr Morton-Banner
Teacher of Computing
Used Socrative daily for 4-6 months
Jan 2024
Let's compare Socrative to Microsoft Forms. It's better on the one hand, by having room names, however, it would be better to have area codes, or bespoke servers so names can be duplicated for simplicity. e.g. my students have to type in a long room name. Why not have have UK server "UK" and an area number (1 for London). Then rooms can be reused e.g. UK1Yr7a. This is easier to remember than some of the longer winded room names. Socrative also offers storage of data which is great since Forms doesn't do this easily. That said, do I feel I have value for money. Not really.
Mr Morton-Banner found Socrative:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Quantitative data for starters and plenaries”
- Does not significantly improve teaching efficiency“I can see it would be great for teaching and learning, but I find it too restrictive e.g. I would love some variation by allowing students to post to a board.”
- Moderately improves attainment“I can measure progress over time”
- Moderately builds student knowledge“I allows positive embedding through progress checks within a spiral curriculum”
Jan 2024
très pratique, apporte une autre façon de faire travailler
COQUAZ found Socrative:
- Slightly reduces teacher workload“interrogation hebdomadaire de science physique”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“les étudiants apprennent plus régulièrement leur cours et les applications du cours”
- Moderately improves attainment
- Significantly builds student knowledge
Dec 2023
some important features missing. Like ability to copy selected questions from one quiz to another ... Scoring would improve massively if points in multiple choice questions would count in %. (e.g. if a question has 4 answers and 2 are correct. If the student picks only 1 correct answer, he/she should get a half point. Answeres that are selected but are wrong should reduce the score of the question.
Ernst Morak found Socrative:
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“Teaching content reviews”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“...”
- Slightly improves attainment“..”
- Moderately builds student knowledge“..”
Arrash
Director of Innovation and Technology
Used Socrative weekly for 5 years+
Dec 2023
Socrative could use more review tools beyond the Space Race. Creative games would be fun for the kids while also helping them review the lesson content. One note about the Space Race as it currently works is that it scores based on if the questions were answered correctly by any member when done as a team. I recommend that the Space Race give the option to base their overall score on how many correct answers there were in the team instead.
Arrash found Socrative:
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“The Space Races work as a great review tool and the quizzes work well because they can automatically grade the results saving me time.”
- Slightly improves teaching efficiency
- Moderately improves attainment“It works well as a review tool.”
- Does not significantly build student knowledge
Dec 2023
I am overall satisfied. I gave it an 8 and not a 10 because the question types are limited.
Luciano found Socrative:
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“There are no written assignments to correct.”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“I can do quick tests almost every lesson”
- Slightly improves attainment“If I do frequent tests, students are forced to study regularly and not just at the end of the period”
- Slightly builds student knowledge“See previous answers”
Dec 2023
Overall, I am happy with Socrative; however, I cannot say a 10 because recently had an issue that interrupted my rostered classes. Eventually, the issue was resolved, but it took quite a lot of energy on my part to get Socrative to fix it.
Greg found Socrative:
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“Immediate feedback for students; I don't have to collect papers and review them individually to give students personalized and whole-group feedback. Students get to see the application of concepts in action.”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“I can review the concepts that the whole class seems to be struggling with; then, I can revisit the concepts after the some more mini lessons.”
- Moderately improves attainment
- Slightly builds student knowledge
william
Visting Assistant Professor
Used Socrative weekly for 5 years+
Nov 2023
william found Socrative:
- Slightly reduces teacher workload“maybe if it had AI scoring and was integrated with LMS it would reduce.”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“being able to launch both synchronous and asynchronous activities is more efficient”
- Slightly improves attainment“I have not done a comparative study”
- Moderately builds student knowledge“retrieval practice never hurts”
Dave Bromley
Electrical Lecturer and LFG rep
Used Socrative weekly for 5 years+
Nov 2023
The product is great but the number of tests that you can have on there is limited, for someone that has to cover a broad array of subjects within my specialist area 20 tests for the yearly subscription is a small amount, but similarly the more expensive option is too expensive for the additional benefits. We would benefit from another level of individual membership that allows for unlimited exams but isn't for an enterprise.
Dave Bromley found Socrative:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“It saves having to recreate paperwork from scratch, it allows us to monitor progression and it also allows us to adapt questions easily when regulations are updated.”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“Time can be given to students that need more 1 to support when the other learners are given an exam to test knowledge or embed what they have learned”
- Moderately improves attainment“It help students that find engaging in the classroom difficult, and also allows all students the chance to embed the learning they have achieved”
- Significantly builds student knowledge
Nov 2023
Socrative aids student development in alignment with course modules
Beverley found Socrative:
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“Allows me to test knowledge understanding of students”
- Does not improve teaching efficiency“I am to see where students need additional support”
- Slightly improves attainment“None”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Evident through discussions and increased scores”
Nov 2023
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Aušra found Socrative:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“.”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“.”
- Significantly improves attainment“.”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“.”
Nov 2023
An excellent tool to use as a formative assessment method for your students. It also helps to promote learning of previous material and retrieval through the use of quizzes and tests
Richard Jones found Socrative:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“An easy to use quiz format allows the teacher to use retrieval and starter activities at the beginning of lessons which can free up teacher time to analyse student engagement”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“The summative assessment tools allow teachers to assess student learning in an informal way but efficient. The tools give teachers insant feedback on students learning”
- Significantly improves attainment“I use socrative frequently as tool to reinforce previous key concepts which helps students to retain the subject matter that they have learnt”
- Significantly builds student knowledge
Eli
Training Coordinator/Lead Instructor
Used Socrative occasionally for 1-2 years
Oct 2023
works well
Eli found Socrative:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“less time marking better insight on learning goals”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“ability to test with real time results”
- Significantly improves attainment“use for pre screening applicants”
- Moderately builds student knowledge“ability to deliver right answer with reasoning”
Carolina Hernandez
Asistente Directiva
Used Socrative monthly for 3-4 years
Oct 2023
Carolina Hernandez found Socrative:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency
- Slightly improves attainment
- Slightly builds student knowledge
Emmanuelle
Professeur de physique-chimie
Used Socrative weekly for 3-4 years
Oct 2023
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Emmanuelle found Socrative:
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“quick and easy correction”
- Slightly improves teaching efficiency“/”
- Slightly improves attainment“/”
- Slightly builds student knowledge“/”
Fabio
Teacher of Mathematics and Physics
Used Socrative weekly for 3-4 years
Sep 2023
Students like it It helps me save energies (tests are performed year after year with little adjustments) The email sent to students is not just a document with wrong/correct answers and a grade, but a tool to start revising the different topics thanks to the comments to each question/answer
Fabio found Socrative:
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“Sending email to students with automatically corrected answers and explanation of the correct answer”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“I use it to focus weekly on the main topics of the previous week's lessons, so I keep track of my progress in the school programme”
- Slightly improves attainment
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Weekly tests push them to study constantly”
D. Morgan Jones
Lecturer
Used Socrative weekly for 3-4 years
Jul 2023
It improves student engagement and sort of hijacks the use of their phones during lessons as I can tell when they are on task and not on task
D. Morgan Jones found Socrative:
- Slightly reduces teacher workload“checking comprehension”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“can see student responses in relative real time”
- Slightly improves attainment“no examples”
- Slightly builds student knowledge“Not sure, it does impact student engagement”
Jun 2023
Excellente interface et facilitée d'apprentissage le prix est restrictif par contre ... avant la covid les prix étaient plus abordable ce qui m'aurait permis de le payer de ma poche. Par contre avec l'augmentation importante du prix mon employeur a décidé de ne pas renouveler nos licences PRO. Avoir eu le prix avant COVID, je l'aurais payé de ma poche.
Mathieu Patry found Socrative:
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“Réduction importante du temps de correction et l'archivage des examens. Facilite le retour sur les questions échouées et permet de les cibler rapidement.”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“Permet ce cibler les questions échouées efficacement et rapidement afin de faire un retour en groupe sur celles-ci”
- Slightly improves attainment
- Slightly builds student knowledge
Nanseol Heo
Professor
Used Socrative monthly for 3-4 years
Jun 2023
It can reduce the work of scoring for teachers, and help students know their total scores right after they finish the exams.
Nanseol Heo found Socrative:
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“No need to score mid-term and final exams manually.”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“I do not use the service for the teaching it self.”
- Does not significantly improve attainment“Not that much.”
- Slightly builds student knowledge