Comparison

Socrative Student vs Virtual Labs

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Socrative Student

Engage in formative assessments with interactive quizzes, polls, and games. Students join classrooms using a code to answer questions and track their understanding. No student accounts are required.

Highlights
  • Interactive quizzes and polls
  • Open-ended questions with voting
  • Exit tickets for end-of-class review
  • Space Race game mode
  • Class, question, and student reports
  • Multiple choice and True/False questions
Features
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Students share their understanding by answering formative assessment questions in a variety of formats: quizzes, quick question polls, exit tickets and space races. Once students launch the Socrative Student App, they'll be prompted to join the teacher's room via the teacher's unique code. No student accounts necessary! Features • Visualize student and whole class understanding • Multiple choice and True/False questions • Open-ended questions and vote on the results • End of class Exit Tickets • Play games with our Space Race! • Class, Question and Student level reports Supported Browsers and Devices • Socrative works on every browser: including Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Internet Explorer. • Use any Web Enabled device: including Smartphones, Tablets, Laptops and Desktops

About

Virtual Labs

Features
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Light your Bunsen burner! Test yogurt for contamination in a virtual lab, and judge whether the bacteria you find are harmful or beneficial. Virtual Labs interactive food science modules train high school and college students in basic laboratory techniques. Learn how to use Gram staining to differentiate beneficial bacteria from dangerous bacteria in food samples. Working in the virtual lab of a dairy processing plant, you analyze yogurt samples and follow step-by-step lab procedures to test for Salmonella and E. coli. Sterilize your inoculation loop, and prepare your slide, then view the sample under a microscope and observe the differences in appearance between beneficial bacteria and harmful bacteria. Virtual Labs: Gram Staining familiarizes the user with food science lab equipment and teaches standard techniques for this specific procedure. The interactive initially guides the user through each step of the lab process; then users prepare Gram stain slides on their own to find out for certain whether this batch of yogurt is safe. This work was supported by USDA CSREES and USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture under two Higher Education Challenge Grant projects: 2008-38411-19055 and 2011-38411-30625. © 2008-2016 NMSU Board of Regents. Collaborating universities South Dakota State University, North Dakota State University and New Mexico State University are all equal opportunity/affirmative action employers and educators.

Screenshots

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: Socrative Student at 3 against Virtual Labs's 1. Virtual Labs's advantage is iOS requirement (9.3 vs 12.0). On price, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Socrative Student versus Virtual Labs: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSocrative StudentVirtual Labs
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.3 (631 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews40.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings631 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPad
Requires iOS12.09.3 — better
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB44 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperShowbie Inc.New Mexico State University Board of Regents

Bugs and requests

Socrative Student

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • App freezes and crashes frequently
  • Compatibility issues with newer iOS versions
  • Incorrect grading and score reporting

Requested features

3 requests
  • Add ability to see missed questions
  • Improve support for older devices
  • Add more question types beyond multiple choice

Virtual Labs

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Socrative Student

No in-app purchases

None

Virtual Labs

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Socrative Student free?
Socrative Student is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Virtual Labs free?
Virtual Labs is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Socrative Student or Virtual Labs have ads?
Neither Socrative Student nor Virtual Labs shows ads.

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