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Create Online Quizzes in Easy Steps Using Socrative

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Hello, everyone. Welcome back to another post! How are you? Hope you are doing well. 😃 In this post, I'd like to introduce another online tool called Socrative. Have you ever heard of this tool before?                                              This tool is extremely useful for teaching and learning as it can be used to create online quizzes. The quizzes made using Socrative can also be given to the students to work in real-time so it also works well during online learning. In addition, this tool allows teachers to track the students' responses to the quizzes, allowing the teachers to review each individual student's progress. Isn't it nice? 😏 So, without further ado, let's learn how to create online quizzes using Socrative in the following steps: 1. Open Socrative website:  https://www.socrative.com/ . If you are new to Socrative, you can sign up for free as a teacher by clicking the Login button, then click Sign up now! You need to provide an e-mail and a pas

Jump-Start your Class with Quizlet

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Hello, everyone! Welcome back to another post. How are you doing? I hope you are all doing great. 😊 Readers, in this post I would like to talk about another tool to help your teaching inside the classroom. The tool is called Quizlet. Have you ever heard about it? Quizlet is an online tool that allows us to create a lesson in the form of flashcards containing the target terms and their definition. Later on, these flashcards can be transformed into different types of exercises and games. Sounds fun, right? 😃 With Quizlet, the learning activities inside your classroom will be interesting and varied. So, without further ado, let's learn how to create flashcards using Quizlet through the following steps: 1. Open  https://quizlet.com/login?redir=https://quizlet.com/latest  and sign up. You can sign up by providing your email or using your Google or Facebook account. If you've made an account previously, you can directly log in. 2. Click Create and choose Study set .  After that, y

How to Create Online Exercises Like a Pro Using Hot Potatoes

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Hello, everyone! How have you been? Hope you are all doing great. 😃 Readers, have you ever been struggling to find online tools to create exercises for your students? If yes, then this post will help you with that! Recently, my CALT group (Group 5) has tried a free application called Hot Potatoes which can be used to generate multiple types of exercises. In order to help you comprehend the use of the Hot Potatoes application, feel free to have a look at our group's presentation video about Hot Potatoes here:  https://drive.google.com/file/d/18WzAbJF0K0QEOQTGLsF5_UjVVodUNBgI/view?usp=sharing . In our presentation, we explain the function of Hot Potatoes and give a short tutorial on using each tool in the application.  In Hot Potatoes, you can make 5 different types of exercises and compile them into one exercise. In addition, students can directly do the exercises through a webpage and even get their score. Isn't that awesome? 😄 Therefore, we may also use Hot Potatoes to asses