I wanted to find extra online practice questions for my students where they could get individual feedback and results. I had become disenchanted with Kahoot as more time was spent booting out kids using inappropriate names and then watching while students who weren't winning quickly gave up or began just randomly guessing on questions.
Some research brought me to ixl.com where I signed up for a trial membership and was able to assign questions to students to complete. They were much more invested in the questions because they were able to work at their own pace and receive their own feedback. I could hear students in the classroom exclaiming when they did well, "I just earned a new medal" or "I'm at 87%".
Unfortunately the free trial ran out and I was once again looking for a free or affordable option. This brought me to Mathletics (free trial), which I found too overwhelming, not the most user friendly, and also Knowledgehook.com. Knowledgehook was more like a Kahoot until they conveniently opened up a free trial of their 'homework' section. Here I was able to select questions and set up 'missions' for the students to individually complete. This worked well but once again a cost is associated with keeping it year round.
I attended the OAME conference in May and discovered several new options to look into, Quizziz, Socratic, Quizlet, etc. I also saw a demonstration on Plickers, which might solve some of the annoying problems with kahoots. With plickers there is no need to choose names, and the cards are made to make the student selections more private and anonymous. I have tried plickers once so far with good results.
I will be continuing to research and trial options in order to find valuable practice questions students can work on at their own pace, that will save results and provide feedback, both for them and for me.
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