Voting using Google Classroom

Google Classroom recently added a small but useful function to its Question feature. In the past, students have been able to give short answers to teacher-posed questions, which could be private responses, or which other students could either see or see and respond. Classroom now gives your the ability to have multiple choice questions --again, where students can either see a summary of responses or where only the teacher can collect answers. This could be a great means for quick classwide formative assessments, but it's likely that many teachers will also deploy this feature as a fast means for taking a class vote.

Using technology for formative assessment in the classroom

I've done some brief trainings earlier this year on quick-response apps for BYOD classrooms, such as GetKahoot and PollEverywhere (check out the training materials here). Here is one great one that offers a little more flexibility in how students are able to respond, with options like open-ended text and free draw.

(This one, like the two above, work with students using phones as well as other devices, like laptops or Chromebooks.)

Infuse Learning

Teacher View

This web-based free tool allows you to create questions that can receive a variety of answers (draw responses, true/false, multiple choice, sort in order, open-ended text, numeric, and scale). You can even create a problem or a prompt, or upload an image and have the students annotate what you provide.

Students go to student.infuselearning.com through a Chrome or Safari browser and enter the Room ID to participate.

Teachers can make questions or quizzes ahead of time or can create questions on the fly. You can save results for grades or just use the results to determine your lesson targets.
I like this tool because of its flexibility and high engagement, and because I can save the responses or results if needed. The drawing response can be challenging on a small device (I probably wouldn't ask students to label a map, for instance) but for larger annotations it works well and setting up a teacher account is very easy.

Give it a shot! Go to http://www.infuselearning.com, click on "teacher login" in the upper right, and play around with it.