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Socrative

Base Feature

The most promoted feature of this app is enabling users to create, manage, share and evaluate multiple types of quizzes.

Features

• Visualize student understanding
• Ask multiple choice and true/false questions
• Ask open-ended questions and vote on the results
• Create your own quizzes (instantly graded for you)
• Share quizzes with other teachers
• Give end of class exit tickets
• Play games with our space race!
• View students results in real time
• Reporting - Download, Email or send to Google Drive

In summary, they have some unique features that differentiate them from the other competitors. The features mostly liked by the users are:

• Simplicity of making tests/quizzes, getting instant results of them and being able to correct the mistakes without waiting with the help of the live data.
• Creating planned and unplanned quizzes
• Exit tickets

Details of these features can be read from here.

Technological Advantage

They claim that "Socrative" works on every platform including all browsers and devices that have access to internet. They mostly highlight this multi-platform support in their website.

Pricing

They have 3 different packages:

1- Free:

• Create up to 5 quizzes
• 1 public room for your class
• Launch 1 activity at a time
• 50 students per room
• Space race assessment
• Easy quiz sharing with URLs

2- Socrative PRO for K-12 ($89.99 USD/year):

• Everything in Socrative free plus
• Unlimited quiz creation
• Up to 20 private or public rooms
• Launch up to 20 activities at once
• Roster import via CSV or Excel

3- Socrative PRO for Higher Ed & Corporate ($179.99 USD/year):

• Everything in Socrative free plus
• Unlimited quiz creation
• Up to 20 private or public rooms
• Launch up to 20 activities at once
• 200 students per room
• Restricted access with student ID

Detailed explanation for pricing and the feature differences among them can be found in this link.

Mobile App Details

They have two separate apps for students and teachers. It is not clear for which purposes they have made a decision like this instead of enabling both features for students and teachers in one app.

About

They were founded in 2010 and they have continued to develop their product since that time. They express their main mission as "connecting teachers with students as learning happens, by providing fun and effective tools to gauge student understanding in real time".

User Number & Rating & Multi-Language Support

• They have nearly 3 million users worldwide.
• The application is available in 14 different languages.
• Ratings:
  • Socrative Student:
    • on Google Play Store: 3.2/5
    • on App Store: 2.3/5
  • Socrative Teacher:
    • on Google Play Store: 4.0/5
    • on App Store: 3.1/5

Ratings are based on the data from App Store and Google Play.

Credits

• The given information in this part is credited to the Socrative App Research done by Bahrican Yeşil.

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Genius

About

Genius is an annotation driven knowledge community, which is mostly used for hip-hop and pop song lyrics. It is free to sign up, download, and use and based on a collaborative knowledge.

Base Feature

It enables every user to create a profile and start to add annotations on chunks of lyrics of songs.

Additional Features:

• There is a point based authenticity system for users called IQ. In order to prevent fake, troll, and false annotations on lyrics, every user in Genius needs to gain points based on their shared knowledge. In order to annotate on the most popular songs, they have to be above a certain level of IQ points.
• There are several ways to gain IQ points: annotating lyrics, writing artist, song & album bios, annotating album cover artworks, adding song facts based on source, transcribing or translating lyrics, making a suggestion or proposing an edit to an annotation, or ask or answer a question with Q&A
• There is a collaborative knowledge base system. Everyone can add knowledge. Editors and verified users determine this added knowledge is official annotation or not.
• There is cosignment system called upvotes and pyongs. Each user can back up an annotation by cosigning it with pyong and upvote to make this annotation more visible. Each gained upvote and pyong adds also to the IQ of the annotator.
• Artists also can add knowledge and make annotations. Their profile are verified by Genius and have a green verified badge on it.

What is Missing?

The official annotations displayed in the Genius are mostly related to a chunk of a lyrics. From the aspect of W3 model the target is usually a big chunk of a song and the body is usually text with images, links and sometimes voice recordings. This makes annotating a part of this chunk is almost impossible, after the annotation on big chunk is verified and officially displayed.

Credits

• The given information in this part is credited to the Genius App Research done by Altay Acar.
  • You can find useful information on how genius works from here.

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Kunduz

Base Feature

Their slogan is "It has never been this easier to prepare for the exam". When a student posts a question, he/she gets the result in 15 minutes with %100 guarantee of right answer and answering method from a "teacher" so you do not spend hours on Internet trying to find it, this app gives it to you and it is way cheaper then private lessons.

Features:

• You can post a number of questions according to your memberships into the app and teachers will answer it.
• You can post any type of questions, like multiple choice, true/false, etc.
• If you do not understand the solution, you can text the teacher who solved the problem to clearify it.
• It has a guarantee of solving, every question posted in the app will be answered in minutes regardless of grade, lesson or difficulty.
• It has a number of membership options, they are more economic than private lessons.
• They work with teachers which are specialists in their areas.
• You can always reach the questions you asked before and their solutions.
• In their website, there are lecture videos and a question bank for students to benefit.

Pricing

For pricing, please visit this web site.

Mobile App

Kunduz has a website but the main application works on mobile phones (Android/Apple). They have 2 applications, one for students and one for teachers.

About

Kunduz is a mobile app which is mostly liked because posting a question and getting the answer is very simple. You just take the photo of the question, post it and a teacher answers it with a text or a photo.

User Number & Rating & Multi-Language Support

• They have over 1 million users ins Android.
• It supports English and Turkish.
• Ratings:

  • Kunduz Student:

    • on App Store: 4.6/5
    • on Google Play Store: 4.0/5

  • Kunduz Teacher:

    • on App Store: 4.4/5
    • on Google Play Store: 3.2/5

Credits

• The given information in this part is credited to the Kunduz App Research done by Egemen Atik.

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Coursera

Primary Purpose

Providing quality upper education from renown experts to students around the globe and certificate their students expertise. Their main objective is to increase accessibility.

Features

• Students can search lectures by lecturer, institute, rating, topic, language, and difficulty.
• Their lectures mostly are conducted by renown experts, companies or academicians.
• Some companies offer courses for their current or future employees.
• They provide a certification upon completion.
• By grouping lectures together, they offer specializations and even online college degrees.
• Lectures follow a chapter/section type hierarchy.
• Lectures are supported by projects which are tested. Projects mostly consist of coding. Coursera runs this code on their server and grade them by behaviour. This is especially helpful for machine learning and data science subjects since they supply required processing power and datasets the learner may not have.
• Understanding of lectures are tested by quizzes. Passing the quiz is required for completion and certification.
• Students can track completion process of lectures individually. There are some lectures with deadlines too. The system alerts users when a deadline is close.
• Lecturers can add both a video or text as lecture material.
• Students can annotate lecture material or take notes using the notes service. Each section of each lecture has a separate notes page. Student can navigate between his/her notes while viewing lecture material.
• Students can annotate videos by screenshoting using a button in video player. This button takes a screenshot of the lecture video and add it to class notes.
• Students can see the transcript of lecture videos. When the user clicks on a sentence in the transcript, video player jumps to the timestamp of the sentence.
• Since transcripts are generated by AI, they are quite frequent in lectures delivered in popular languages.
• Students can use transcripts for annotation, thus they can quote lecturers easily.
• Each section has a separate forum for discussion where students can start new threads for different topics.
• Users have LinkedIn like profiles where learners can present their skills/certificates/experience for the employers.
• They have a career paths section where they introduce technical career paths and courses recommended for starting these careers.

Pricing

While an account is free, pricing policy is up to lecturer. There are free lectures too!

Rating & Multi-Language Support

• Lecturers can deliver lectures in their prefered language. Most popular languages are English, Spanish, and Chinese.
• Ratings:
  • Mobile:
    • on App Store: 4.8/5
    • on Play Store: 4.1/5

Credits

• The given information in this part is credited to the Coursera App Research done by Mehmet Batuhan Çelik.

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Pluralsight

About

Pluralsight is an app which is focused on software sciences, therefore, the features provided by Pluralsight makes the application easy to follow and easy to learn from.

Base Feature

Pluralsight, Inc. is an American privately held online education company that offers a variety of video training courses for software developers, IT administrators, and creative professionals through its website and mobile application.

Additional Features

• Conferences
  • Conferences are video courses, available in Pluralsight Skills for a limited time. Feedback and insights from Conferences will inform the future of Pluralsight’s learner experience. Conferences may include keynotes, breakout sessions, panels, and more available in the Pluralsight platform as video courses that live within a designated Conference path.
• Guides
  • Guides are short, solution-focused articles created by our expert community on a wide variety of technologies. Find reliable, technical information aiming to help you in your time of need.
• Path
  • Paths are collections of content that are curated by Pluralsight authors and experts focused on such subjects:
    • Development
    • Cloud
    • IT Ops
    • Data etc.
  • Most paths have levels, such as Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced. Breaking the courses into levels of a path helps you follow a path through a particular skill set. Taking a Skill IQ will place you in the correct path for your skill level.
• Stack up
  • Stack up is a mobile game that gives you a chance to test your skills by competing with your fellow Pluralsight users. Choose your topic, answer as many questions as you can correctly, and see how you stack up on weekly and all-time leaderboards.
• Personal goal
  • You can set a personal weekly goal for minutes to watch from app to follow your development and motivate yourself. This feature may be the favorite for many students since it helps you organize your learning.

Pricing

Pluralsight is not free and it renews subscription every year for a price of 371 USD.

Mobile App

Website : https://app.pluralsight.com/library/

Credits

• The given information in this part is credited to the Pluralsight App Research done by Ecenur Sezer.

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Codeacademy

Purpose

• Codecademy describes itself as an education company that teaches online courses and paths in 14 programming languages.
• In their words, they want to create a world where anyone can build something meaningful with technology, and everyone has the learning tools, resources, and opportunities to do so.
• Codeacademy is committed to empowering all people, regardless of where they are in their coding journeys.

Features

• Codeacademy has the Sorting Quiz option for beginners who don't know where to start coding. The quiz will take you through a series of questions to help find out which career, languages, and courses best suit your personal interests and strengths.
• They provide a certificate upon completion of paid subscription.
• They provide a well-designed interface for users where you can find the subject, code examples, and coding area on the same page in many courses.
• They also have plans for the business that include interactive learning, individual guidance, and weekly reports on what your team has been learning.
  • You can find the business plan here.
• On the page of courses, you can see the overview and the syllabus of the related courses. Moreover, they provide information about how many users took the course, the time to complete it, and the prerequisites of the course.

Programming Languages at Codeacademy

• HTML & CSS
• Python
• JavaScript
• Java
• SQL
• Bash/Shell
• Ruby
• C++
• R
• C#
• PHP
• Go
• Swift
• Kotlin

Supported Language

English

Subjects

• Web Development
• Data Science
• Computer Science
• Developer Tools
• Machine Learning
• Code Functions
• Web Design

Pricing Policy

• $19.99/month - $15.99/month (billed yearly)
• $149.99/year for students (has same features as the pro plan)
• They have also one week free trial for the pro plan.

Mobile App Ratings

• App Store: 4.8/5
• Play Store: 4.6/5

Credits

• The given information in this part is credited to the Codeacademy App Research done by Hasan Can Erol.

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Khan Academy

Provided Features

• There are courses(Math,Biology...)and Each course is divided into subjects(Trigonometry, Algebra 1 ...) each subject has subsections by topic(Negative Numbers..) and these subsections include the learning material.
• Learning material consists of readings, video lectures and practice quizzes. Watching lectures and solving quizzes gives XP reward called "Mastery points" as a gameification of progress tracking and motivating.
• It tracks progress in courses started and displays it as a main page when users login.
• There are badges to award certain progress that can be displayed on user profile and special reward avatars can be unlocked.

General Structure

• Khan Academy is an online learning platform that has 3 different user options: Learner, Teacher and Parent.
• It has a wide range of appealed ages, starting from grade 2( called khan kids) up to AP courses for high school students.
• It is a nonprofit platform that can be used for free, but encourages donations to support it.

Similarities and Differences with Our Learning Platform

• Teachers/classes can be added via email for "school use" purposes, but there is no following other users or teachers option.

• This platform includes learning aspects of our project, but does not include note taking & sharing and also live meeting planning aspects.

Credits

• The given information in this part is credited to the Khan Academy App Research done by Ezgi Aysel Batı.

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Udemy

Udemy is one of the most popular site to learn anything you want. There are several pros and cons about Udemy.

General Pros

• Teachers make educational videos and categorize them. By this way, students can understand what they are learning .
• New, in-progress, and completed courses can be seen. And their percentages can be observed. With this way, students can be motivated.
• Teachers and students can communicate through comments under the videos. Students can ask something they cannot understand or if there any misconception, they can warn the teacher. Also, this conversation can be seen by other students.
• This way of learning is much more affordable rather than making classes face-to-face. This is because in any class a teacher can accept mostly up to 100 students. By this system, teachers can make courses and publish them. There is no limit to accept students. Thus, some teachers make their courses free.
• Teachers can issue certificates to students who completed the course. By this way, students can also be motivated.
• Students can make reviews about course they participated in.

General Cons

• It is limited to interact simultaneously with teacher.
• There is no group work with other students.
• Interaction between students is limited.
• Taking note about course is also limited.
• Pricing is varying.
• There is no quiz-like things. So, students can’t figure out if they understand the content of a course.

Credits

• The given information in this part is credited to the Udemy Website Research done by Onur Kömürcü.

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Skillshare

• Skillshare is a digital video course platform for e-learning.
• Skillshare focuses on visual arts and lifestyle related subjects.

Main Pros

• It has a mobile app.
• It offers free classes to students.
• It highlights community and encourages participation.
• It offers free classes and free trial.
• It includes many courses in many categories.

Main Cons

• There are very few academic subjects available.
• There are no college degree programs.
• There is no quality control for teachers.
• It only has english content.

Credits

• The given information in this part is credited to the Skillshare App Research done by Ahmet Yiğit Özdoğan.