Polling with Socrative

Polling with Socrative

Socrative is an online polling tool that can be used with up to 50 students, 5 quiz max (free version) and up to 300 students, unlimited quizzes (Pro version) to display online questions posed by instructors and student responses in real-time. It can be used for quizzes, surveys, or team/game activities. Students can use any device that connects to the internet to access Socrative. Regardless of whether a teacher are using Socrative Free or Socrative Pro, it will always be free to students. 

Socrative Free

• Limit: Each free teacher account allows the teacher to launch a quiz with up to 50 students and create no more that 5 quizzes.
• Anonymity: Since the free version does not allow roster uploads, as long student names are not prompted, the poll is anonymous.
• Free Teacher License:
• Set up the free “teacher” account, associated with WWU, by using the [username]@wwu.edu email address. This will make it easier to upgrade to the Pro version later.
  • Set up a Free Teacher Account.
• If a teacher later decides there is no need for the Pro license, they will still have all their quizzes in their account with the free version.

Socrative Pro

• Limit: Each teacher account allows for launching a quiz with up to 300 students, and they can create unlimited quizzes.
• Class Roster: Each teacher can directly upload their class roster using a CSV or Excel file.
• Rooms: Each teacher can create up to 30 different “rooms” which act like access codes for students and can also have rosters attached to them for trackable polls.  
• Shared Libraries: Each teacher can create collections of polls and share them with specific colleagues for them to use.

Drawbacks of Socrative

• Not integrated in Canvas
• Lack of slide integration, teachers cannot directly embed it into a Powerpoint slide
• Good for formative assessment but not recommended for summative assessment

How to Get Started with Socrative Pro

ATUS has a limited number of Pro accounts for instructors.

1. Create a “free” higher ed instructor account using the WWU email address, preferably using username@wwu.edu.
2. Request an upgrade to "Socrative Pro" by setting up a brief appointment with Justina Brown at the CII.
3. Request a consultation to process the upgrade, discuss ideas, and learn the basics.

Using Socrative

Socrative's help documentation is excellent. Explore the following and if extra support is needed, contact the CII.

• Create a New Quiz
  • Launch a Quiz
  • Deliver a Space Race
  • Student Login and Quiz Taking
  • Live Results
  • More on Quizzes
• Creating a Shared Library
• Rooms and Rostered Rooms
• Reports

Other Polling Technologies

There are other polling teaching technologies outside of Socrative that might better suit the needs of your classroom as they are all a little different. We recommend looking into the free versions of Mentimeter and Poll Everywhere if you are considering alternative polling technologies. However, WWU does not hold paid licenses for these tools and features for those tools may be limited.