Hi everyone! Today I would like to talk about advantages and disadvantages services in creating and organizing testing such as 

MyTextX

Twitter

Google Forms 

Socrative

Online surveys are a great way to engage your audience and get feedback from them. Making an online survey is easy – there are many great online survey creators.

1.MyTextX

 advantages:

• With MyTestXPro you can organize both local and network testing.
• You can test without having to connect to any network.
• Question text and answer choices (where possible) support text formatting and the insertion of pictures, tables and symbols.
• The program has a convenient built-in text editor.
•  You can format the text and insert tables, figures and symbols not only into questions, but also into answer choices.
• The program supports several independent test modes.
•  Using different test modes and parameters, it is possible to effectively solve various tasks, both training and knowledge tests.

disadvantages:

I didn't find any disadvantages in this system of programs.

2.Twitter

Twitter is a very popular social network, which makes it very convenient to use it for polls.

Advantages:

•  Twitter is a very simple social network because it allows you to be aware of everything that interests you, such as communities, celebrities or just people who are not famous but who you know. This is a very important advantage of Twitter.

•  The fact that everything has to be written in 140 characters makes the social network simple and practical for human thinking.

• If you have written a tweet and one of your followers like what they see, this can be retweeted so this tweet is also seen by all the followers of your follower.

Disadvantages:

• With Twitter you have to summarize everything that is happening to you in 140 characters. This can generate problems by having to abbreviate everything that happens.
•  Another disadvantage of Twitter is that there is a lot of spam on the network and this is not so controlled. This also makes the network too fast in terms of number of Tweets and sometimes the trust of the network is lost.
• It is very common to see insults from people towards companies.
• False profiles on Twitter are very common and this can generate distrust in the network.
•  Another big disadvantage of Twitter is that having false profiles, any person can create a famous account and many people begin to follow when in reality this profile is not of this celebrity but a random person.

3.Google forms

Google Forms is actively used not only for educational purposes. The service is ideal for various polls. It's easy to use and the simplest ways to save data directly to a spreadsheets

Advantages:

• It is a free online tool, that allows you collect information easily and efficiently.
• With Google forms you can create surveys in few minutes to ask your clients or collaborators information about your products or service.
• The interface is very easy to use.
• At the design level it is possible to choose between a palette of colors, as well as own images as a background.
• The forms are integrated with Google spreadsheets therefore we can access to a spreadsheet view of the collected data.
• The general configuration of forms or surveys allows you to collect the recipient’s email address and limit the answers.
• Google forms allows us to see how the survey will look before sending it over to the recipients.

Disadvantages :

• It is necessary to have internet to be able to use this tool.
• Is not optimized to use in a Tablet or Phone in terms of design and responsiveness.
• You can’t collect some rich metadata as Pictures, Barcodes and Signatures.
• The design customization is very limited. Advanced users can change the design to use the tool with a greater number of purposes.
• There are certain limitations regarding the capabilities of this tool. It accepts texts up to 500 Kb; images up to 2 Mb; and for spreadsheets the limit is 256 cells or 40 sheets.

4.Socrative

 Socrative is designed to organize and use voting systems using any gadgets, computers on which it is possible to work with tests. To start working the teacher needs to register. Then create a set of surveys and tell students the room number to start working with the quiz.It is possible to choose the types of answers (multiple answer, true / false, short answer), to embed graphics into questions.

Advantages:

·         easy to use

·         free service

·         immediate visual results

·         different modes and types of quizzes

Disadvantages:

• Internet access required
• student is required to download the application to take the test