Socrative is a quiz-based, formative assessment tool with multiple features that can enrich teaching and learning. Teachers can design quizzes, space races (picture being at the county fair and squirting water at a target to move a horse across the field…just like that but for quizzes!), exit tickets, and more to collect and analyze student data in real-time to make on-the-spot teaching changes and improve student learning.

There are four key features:

1. Quiz – this allows teachers to create multiple-choice, true/false or short-answer question quizzes that they can save and use again. In class, the teacher launches the quiz and students complete it in real time on their devices.
2. Space Race – students complete a quiz, but this time they compete against each other to get a spaceship from one side of the screen to the other.
3. Quick Question – the teacher asks a multiple-choice, true/false or short-answer question orally or writes it on the board. Students use Socrative to choose the correct answer.
4. Exit Ticket – students reflect at the end of a lesson. There are two inbuilt questions (How well did you understand today’s material? and What did you learn in today’s class?). The teacher sets the third question orally or on the board, which could be a question such as What three new words have you learned today? or What did you find difficult about today’s lesson?

As students answer the questions, the teacher can see the results and then download them. The teacher can then make more informed decisions about what happens next in the lesson.

(This article is quoted from The Digital Teacher)