The document summarizes online quiz and timeline tools that can be used for educational purposes. It discusses features of Quizlet, Socrative and Google Forms for creating online quizzes, including the ability to add images, audio and share with students. It also reviews Dipity and the Read Write Think Timeline tool for creating interactive digital timelines, highlighting abilities to include text, images, audio and video and embed the timelines online.

1. MLC Humanities
Department meeting
11/3/14
Glenda Morris
ITSegment
• Online quiz tools
• Timeline tools

2. Online quiz tools
1. Quizlet http://quizlet.com/
• Free – create flashcards & tests
• Create your own study sets with terms & definitions
• Images added from bank, but CAN’T upload own images
with free version
• Audio of terms & definitions – but CAN’T add own voice
with free version
• Share via creating a class, email, short URL
• Embeddable into class wikis & blogs
• Students don’t need account to practice sets you have
made

3. Quizlet

4. Online quiz tools
2. Socrative http://www.socrative.com/
• Free – student response system engaging students via
educational exercises & games
• Real time formative assessment - discuss results/answers
• Single question activities – M/choice, True/False, short
answer/open ended
• Quiz based activities – pre-made quiz, exit ticket (like this
feature), Space Race (game)
• Quizzes auto graded with report
• Teachers can share quizzes
• Student Login – join your “classroom” via Room Number
• Use CHROME

5. http://www.socrative.com/ Room
Number

6. Online quiz tools
3. Google Forms
• In Google Drive suite of tools
• Free & easy to use like Google Docs
• M/Choice, True/False, Open-ended responses

7. Timeline tools
1. Dipity - http://www.dipity.com/
• Free, interactive digital timelines
• Audio, video, images, text, links for each entry on the
timeline
• Collaborative – public or private
• Great for History and RE
• Use Chrome
• Embeddable on class blogs & wikis
• World War II Pictorial example
• Timeline of Earthquakes example

8. Timeline tools
2. Read Write Think Timeline
http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interac
tives/timeline_2/
• Basic – not as intuitive as Dipity
• Create graphical representation of event/process
sequentially
• Organised by time of day, date or event
• Create a label with short/long descriptive text
• Images added for each label
• No student login required

9. • Add, drag & rearrange items
• Students can save as required, edit, save final version
as a PDF or printable, share via email

10. Also try:
Capzles http://www.capzles.com/