Formative Feedback & Polling Tools

Want to get some quick formative feedback from your learners during your lesson? Here are some free options for you to consider.

Each offers formative feedback and student practice, but the displays and interactions are slightly different. Poll Everywhere is less of a game but embeds into a Google Slideshow and is great for quick feedback or interactivity during a presentation. Socrative can be a game or polling tool and offers nice detailed reports. Kahoot, Quizlet Live and Quizizz tend to be more game based although Quizizz gives nice analytics as well. Choose the tool that best meets your needs.

If you want to learn more, check out the tutorials below or find the On Demand course on formative assessment tools.

Poll Everywhere

• Download and install the app to insert polls directly into Google Slides.
• Learners access a link, respond to your question, and live results appear on screen. No student account is needed.
• Limits to 40 audience members at one time for free. This should meet the needs of most classrooms.
• Choose from a wide variety of question types (MC, word clouds, rank, click image, open-ended, etc.).
• Tutorial

Socrative

• Create pre-made questions and formats or post a question on the spur of the moment with "quick questions."
• Quick question short answers allows students to "vote up" top ideas that are submitted.
• Students enter your class code into the student entry page (no student account needed).
• Students answer your questions.
• You see the results in real time and can export results if you wish.
• Share polls with other teachers.
• Tutorial

Kahoot

• Create game-style quiz activities for your students.
• Students compete to answer the most correct answers in the fastest amount of time.
• No accounts are needed. Just have students log into the student portal and enter your game pin.
• Tutorial

Quizlet Live

• Turn your Quizlet flashcards into collaborative competitions. Team members each get some of the possible answers, and as a team, members need to answer a series of questions by determining which member has the correct answer. Teams need to collaborate to answer all the questions.
• No accounts are needed by students. They simply go to the student portal and enter the game join code.
• Team progress can be displayed to the class.
• Tutorial

Quizizz

• Search database to find a quiz or create your own.
• Students can take quizzes alone or as a team competition.
• You can choose options such as show a timer, summary of correct/wrong answers at the end of the activity, and Memes after answering a question.
• Quizzes can be played live or assigned as homework.
• Students participate at their own pace.
• Review analytics at the end.
• No student accounts are needed. Students go to the join page and enter the game code.
• Tutorial