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Plickers

Plickers is a fabulous real-time formative assessment tool. It is very user-friendly!  I use this tool in my classroom all of the time and my students love it! You go to plickers.com and register for a free account.  There are cards that you have to print out and each one is numbered, there's a standard set of 40 and an expanded set of 63 cards.  You can use the numbers as they are to coincide with your student's grade book number or you can assign them a number with their name (it will pop up on your device when scanning their answers).  I like to put my student's names in so that I don't have to guess or look up who missed a question.  You type in your questions on the website and you can choose true/false or multiple choice answer choices.  The students hold up their cards with the letter of the correct answer at the top, it is difficult for other students to see what the other picked because the answer choices are small.  You use the plickers app on your device and it is like a camera that scans everyone's answer from the front of your classroom.  It gives you real-time feedback and shows you which students got it correct and who did not.  You can project the results onto your board where it shows a bar graph and how many people picked what answer or you can show the student's names and if they got it correct or not (I do not recommend showing the names).

I have used this in my classroom to review vocabulary words before a test or to practice a skill that I have taught.  I have also used it when giving a grade so that my students got instant feedback (this was before I used Google forms).  Plickers is a quick and easy way to check for understanding.  You do not have to worry about waiting for everyone to log into an account or if everyone has a device.  Even though the teacher is the only person that needs a device, the students are still engaged!

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