Stick Pick App Reviews

Upload student names in bulk? Spreadsheet tallies of student scores?

Is it possible to add Depth of Knowledge questions from Norman Webb and Cognitive Rigor Matrix questions from Karin Hess alongside Blooms taxonomy?

I agree, there should be an easy way to import classes. Its not easily useable for individuals as it is. It should also work across other platforms, for import/export (like Dropbox, iDoceo, etc.) But the question stems are great.

I love this app! The question stems are fantastic especially when you find out admin is looking for rigorous questioning on walk throughs. Would give it 5 stars if the questioning level would be random instead of set for each kid and geared toward math and science also.

Students love the rattling sounds. I agree about importing name.

This is a great randomizing app. I use it beyond just a student roster. It servers the purpose for any randomized calling needed (e.g. place value bingo, hunk & chunk bingo, and word families, and Word Wall Words). I love the fact that you can peek @ the used or unused sticks! The new sync features are a bonus as well. I enjoy the fact that improvements are always being looked at for this app.

Thank you for helping me out here. I LOVE this app! Even after 19 years of teaching, Im not the greatest at making sure Im questioning all my students equally, so this is definitely helping. More than that, I absolutely love the ability to track their responses. Being able to give them feedback on how well they are answering questions is a way that I can encourage real learning. My kids are more engaged in the process! :)

When I try to import a student roster from Dropbox, I get the message, "only a limited set of users can receive access tokens while this app is in development mode." So this was a waste of money for me as I wont be entering 200 students names individually.

Ive been using this app for over two years and I must say, it keeps getting better and better. Right after I updated it, it wouldnt let me import because of a Dropbox problem, but then I emailed the developer and they replied really fast - within 5 minutes! They said they were aware of the situation and working on it. When I woke up the next morning, they emailed me and asked me to try it again and guess what? It worked perfectly. So, if you are a teacher and wondering if you should buy it, take it from a teacher with over 16 years of teaching experience: just buy this app and toss out your old Popsicle sticks forever.

I have to say, service with this app is lightening fast! I contacted Buzz and the issue with the Dropbox (error message about tokens) was fixed that same day! Within a couple hours! Great App and Great Customer Service!

Still awesome! Great app.I was looking for a random name generator and found this one. Perfect for those moments in class when I need to come up with a question for my kids, too. I love the differentiation in the questions and record keeping aspects. Really nice implementation. I created a class for each subject area and now my iPad and iPhone are synced.Excellent example of analog meets digital. Import is a huge time saver. THANK YOU!!

I rarely spend money on apps, but this app was well worth the price! It has been incredibly useful in my kindergarten classroom! I created my class and assigned each student to a lower Level of Blooms. I can then allow the iPad to choose a student to answer my question, it gives me question stems, and I can record an assessment! I can later check each childs status to see who is bake to answer questions, who can answer them sometimes, and who never answers them correctly. It was useful for me to create multiple classes so that I could keep track of data. I have a section to keep track of students who can speak in complete sentences, students who can identify characters, students who can identify setting, students who can count to 20, students who can segment sounds or blend words or recall details...the list goes on! Rather than creating checklists or trying to keep up with a dozen sticky notes for each child, this app keeps data for me! I even set up a "class" with only 6 "students," so that I could include all 6 levels of a Blooms. I use that class primarily for the question stems when I want to really start a discussion with my kinders. It is very useful when holding a Socratic seminar! (I use the lower levels of Blooms for most other sections as I only need higher level stems for certain activities in a Kindergarten classroom.) For those who saw my review and thought TL:DR, the bottom line is this: If you are a teacher and you need a way to track data and call students randomly, buy this app!

Someone commented this app was a waste of their money because it was being updated? Ill bet their foot is in their mouth now, because with the new update my husband and I are able to save time by utilizing the ability to import our classes (like those annoying 200 names) and then we can sync those across all our devices!! Saves SOOO much time and makes this great app even better :)) Keep it up like I said LOVE this app:))

The latest version is quite nice. It did have the upload issue mentioned in the one star review below, but that was resolved in something like 24 hours. We as users should remember to send an error report to the developer and give them an appropriate amount of time to rectify it before reviewing. Everything will have problems and how they react to it is as important as the app itself. In my experience, this app gets a lot of attention from its developer and issues are resolved quickly, as this instance is an example. Im a private school teacher and I love this app. It speeds up the process of selecting a student and framing an appropriate question. I really like the fact that the app tracks the difficulty level of each question and allows me to rate the students response. This gives me the ability to increase (or decrease) the level of difficulty and challenge the student to succeed.

I just downloaded this app and encountered a small glitch. I emailed the creator and he promptly got back to me and fixed the Dropbox import issue. Thanks for creating a great app!!!

Thank you for the update! This app takes your "old school" Popsicle sticks and combines them with Blooms question stems in the most clever way. Not only does it remove unconscious bias when calling on students, but the fact that you set the level of difficulty for each student is remarkable. Talk about differentiation! Add that to the fact that you can track each students responses and then change their levels up or down makes this app even more remarkable! Great job on this app! Highly recommend it! Thanks for the updates!!

Ive used several apps for calling students randomly. This is by far the best one. - classes imported using Dropbox docs was a breeze, after Buzz at Stick Pick contacted Dropbox to adjust a setting. It took less than 24 hours for Buzz to have it working for me. Hes kind and quick - app also has the option to assign Blooms levels of question starters to classes. These show when drawing sticks so you can use them to question students at pre assigned levels on the fly - easy to use in class with options for how to draw sticks.

Just would love each student numbered. A class count. :)

Ive tried modifying my roster to meet the suggested guidelines- no luck. Each time I attempt to import from Dropbox the app crashes. Help?

Love this app! Takes a few minutes to upload from Dropbox, but its well worth it! (Hint: Make sure theres a space between column headings - First name instead of firstname) I imported from online grade book - super easy! As kids come and go its easy to just delete or add individually. I AirPlay to HD TV so kids can see the names - they love it! Thank you! No more buying expensive sticks