Showbie
Showbie is an easy-to-use tool that allows you to coordinate simple assignments and tasks. You can also give direct visual and auditory feedback and grade submitted files directly. Showbie also allows you to link to Socrative, so you can include short tests here too. If you want to link to Socrative, you will need a Pro licence to do so. We show you how to make the relevant settings here, but in general the programme is very intuitive and simple.
The Institute of Linguistics has purchased a few pro-licences (1-year) and anyone interested in working with Showbie & Socrative is welcome to contact Dr. Claudia Wegener.
In general, we would like to point out that a randomly generated 5-digit code does not provide strong security and thus people could enter a course who should not have access.
Update: Access can be set so that the course instructor must approve who enters the course. In addition, the code can be deleted completely, so no new participants can join the course afterwards.
After registering, you can directly create a course, which you will then also see in your overview. It is advisable not to create a course at first to familiarise yourself with the programme.
We recommend that you only activate the relevant processes by email in the notification settings, otherwise your inbox will become very full very quickly.
You can create a new course via the overview page and the spanner.
Each course is given an individual code which you can then pass on to your students.
Students can now join the course with the code.
The tab "Students" offers you an overview of all students you have invited to the course.
After you have created the course, you can now create a new task.
You can set these up in terms of submission time and student access.
You can also copy this task if you want to use the same task again in a course.
Within the task you can now write a text with work instructions. This is visible to all participants of the courses.
You can also upload additional files. Please pay close attention to data protection and copyright! If you are not sure, please choose another option (ILIAS).
Students will now see in your own field all the general items you have shared as well as your own (and only your own) answers.
You now have the possibility to give feedback to the students via voice message or text via the comment field. In addition, you can also grade the answer directly.
You now have the possibility to give feedback to the students via voice message or text via the comment field. In addition, you can also grade the answer directly.
You and the students will then see the grade next to their name
Students can also upload a file in response to assignments, which you can open in the browser. Since Showbie also works very well as an app, students can also upload photos or other files directly from their mobile phones. Please pay attention to data protection and copyright here as well!
Students can also add markings to the uploaded file afterwards.
You now have the possibility to give feedback through the elements above the file. You can highlight, create text comments or even voice messages.
At the bottom right, you can download the submitted file. On the other hand, you can also copy the file. This is especially useful if you want to share the file with the whole course (handouts, good answers, etc.).
To do this, you need to change the location and share the file with everyone.
The file then appears, visible to all, in the overview of shared items and in the students' individual folders.
You can also grade the submitted files directly.
Link with Socrative
The Pro version of Showbie allows you to link to Socrative to include quizzes in the course.
Attention: As soon as you link Showbie to Socrative, all participants already in the course can take the quizzes. If new students are added later, they will not be able to answer the quiz. We recommend that you do not set up the connection with Socrative until all students have joined your Showbie course!
Showbie also offers an extra button for this. ATTENTION: You must first create a Socrative Teacher Account (free).
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Über Ihr Socrative Profile müssen Sie dann Ihren Account upgraden.
You can perform this upgrade with a licence key via the "Account" tab.
You must now create a new Socrative room for each Showbie room. The link with the pre-generated room does not work!
You can now create a new quiz.
You can choose from these three question options.
The button "save" saves the individual question and you can then create more. The button "save and exit" saves the entire quiz and takes you back to the overview.
In Showbie, you can now create a new task in your course.
Select a test as the new task.
Now you can select your created test.
You can also make other individual settings.
The test then appears for all participants under the released items.
If you now click on this test, you will see an overview of the results. In addition, if everyone has taken part, you can end the test by clicking on the "Finish" button.