It can be done on smartphones or BYOD devices. For smartphones and tablets they can download the apps for free and sign up for an account. It is a good idea to communicate this to students prior to using it in your lesson. You can do it with half a dozen devices and have students working in groups to complete the quiz as fast as they can or as accurately as they can.
The instructions are below:
To Share A Quiz You Created
1. Open Socrative and Log in.
2. Click on Manage Quizzes.
3. Select the quiz you would like to share.
4. Click on Edit Quiz.
5. Click in the box next to Enable Sharing. The code that appears is what
you need to share with your colleagues - or even put on curriculum
mapping!!
To import a quiz someone has shared.
1. Open up and log into socrative (if you haven’t got an account you can
set one up easily.)
2. Click on Manage Quizzes
3. Click on Import Quiz.
4. Click on Import Shared Quiz
5. Enter in that code and click IMPORT QUIZ. This will bring up the quiz.
6. Scroll down to the bottom and click SAVE. This will now be in your
socrative account.
To then do this quiz with your class. Go back to the main screen.
1. Click on Start Quiz
2. Choose which quiz you want to run
3. choose to either be student paced or teacher run. This will start the
quiz.
4. Give your students your room number.