Case Study Demonstrators Project Socrative Academic Profile Name: Sam Willis Role: Senior Lecturer (Paramedicine) Faculty: School of Health and Wellbeing Course/s: PMC1101 Public Health & PMC1102 Paramedic Skills Cohort Size: Up to 1129 Students See Sam’s full biography Name: Steven Robertson Role: Lecturer (Paramedicine) Faculty: School of Health and Wellbeing Course/s: PMC1202 Paramedics Skills 2 Cohort Size: Up to 1129 Students See Steven’s full Biography Key Takaways Increased Student Engagement: Socrative is a student response system that allows a high number of students to engage with the lecturer in a classroom setting by answering quiz questions without peer judgement. Live Results: Socrative can be used before, during or after a lecture and collect real‐time, formative feedback. This enables a lecturer to assess their students as learning happens and cover content where any learning gaps have been identified immediately. Increased Accessibility: As the quiz question can be easily distributed in class and externally as well as accessible anytime this allowed both on campus and external students to assess their own learnings and obtain assistance with any learning gaps if required. Incorporates Technology in the Classroom: Socrative encourages the use of technology in the classroom as students can answer quiz questions on any device such as a laptop, tablet or smartphone. Therefore no additional hardware is required to be supplied or maintained either by the student or university. Case Study Demonstrators Project Motivation for the trial 
To increase student engagement within the classroom and provide a method of communication free from peer judgement. 
Enable lecturers and students to assess knowledge levels as learning happens. 
To create meaningful and relevant learning experiences. 
Increase accessibility and incorporate the use of technology within a course. What is Socrative? Socrative is a cloud‐based student response system developed in 2010 and distributed by Mastery Connect. It allows lecturers to create a variety of quizzes that students can complete using any device such as a laptop, tablet or smartphone. This enables a lecturer to assess their students as learning happens and incorporate the use of technology in the classroom. Socrative can be used before, during or after a lecture and collect real‐time, formative feedback. Also a lecturer can set up quiz questions prior or during a lesson to allow a more fluid and teacher lead structure. This enables a high number of students to engage with the lecturer in a classroom setting by answering quiz questions without peer judgement. ‘Socrative officials’ state more than 350,000 teachers have registered for free accounts and asked 122 million questions’1. Quiz questions can be set up in number of ways including true/false, multiple choice and short answer. The application has many features that allow a lecturer to personalise their quizzes with question styles, images and tags. The main differential between Socrative and other student response systems there is no need for any additional hardware as such clickers. The application has a comprehensive reporting capabilities and centralises all quiz questions for any future use. How did you integrate Socrative into learning and teaching? Both Sam and Steven used in different ways including within a classroom setting, pre‐lecture questions and as weekly learning assessments. To do this both lecturers would set up the required quiz questions and release them to students as required. This would assist to assess the students’ knowledge so far and enable Sam and Steven to plan and address learning gaps as required. During the trial the main objective of using Socrative was to increase student engagement and assess student knowledge at different stages of their course. Socorative allowed a high number of students to engage with the lecturer in and outside of a classroom setting by answering quiz questions without peer judgement. This enabled both lecturers to assess student knowledge in real time and enable them to incorporate a more fluid style of teaching. 1 EdSurge, date last updated (unknown). Web date accessed 11 May 2016 https://www.edsurge.com/product‐reviews/socrative Case Study Demonstrators Project What was the student experience like? Students provided positive feedback about the increase engagement with the lecturing staff while providing a level anonymity. Most students stated the quiz questions allow them to assess their level of knowledge gained and quickly identify any learning gaps throughout their course. Noteworthy successes and / considerations 
Allow some ‘play time’ when first using Socrative to learn how to use all its features and tools. 
Advise student to download Socrative prior to class if integrating quiz question into a lesson. 
A Socrative User Guide is accessible through their website.