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Last year, I assisted several teachers with using Google Forms for tests and quizzes. We used the Flubaroo Add-On to immediately grade the assessment and communicate results with students via email. Each teacher was blown away by the capability of these tools. Over the summer, as I was exploring the format of the new Google Forms, I noticed that it had an added quizzing feature for classroom use. I didn't have an opportunity to try it out, but wondered if it would eliminate the need for using the Flubaroo Add-On. Today, I stumbled upon a couple of blog post by Richard Byrne of Free Tech for Teachers that helped answer some of my questions. In July, he posted an article on Flubaroo Compared to the New Google Forms Auto-Grading Feature. By reading, I learned that the New Google Forms does make it easier than ever to turn forms into quizzes and automatically grade them without the use of a second party add-on. However, I also read that the features offered through Flubaroo are currently more robust. Richard Byrne also created several video tutorials highlighting some Flubaroo features that are often overlooked: printing grade reports for students and parents, accepting multiple correct responses, and enabling automatic grading and grade sharing. I've embedded these tutorial videos below. You might also be interested in how Flubaroo allows you to award extra or partial credit on quizzes. I would LOVE to help you and your team get started with using these tools with your students! If you're interested, please let me know so we can schedule a time!
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Check out Richard Byrne's recent NCTIES presentation to discover a wealth of ed tech resources for teaching, learning, exploring, creating, managing, assessing, and collaborating.
In a recent blog post on Free Technology for Teachers, Richard Byrne highlights two excellent online video tools. For teachers who assign videos for homework or classwork, and especially those who are applying flipped or blended classroom models to their instruction, these tools could definitely prove to be valuable. Video Notes allows the creator to save and share synchronized notes about videos. Notes could include information to highlight or questions for students to answer and are hyperlinked to the part of the video that relates to the note. Video Notes also integrates seamlessly with Google Drive accounts. Vialogues enables teachers to invite users to a discussion about videos. Comments, surveys, and questions may be also be added to the video discussion, and time stamps provide a direct link to the relevant video content. View Byrne's tutorial videos below to see these sites in action and use the links above to start using these resources in your classroom!
Also, be sure to check out the Problem-Based Learning Spectrum from TeachThought for questions to guide your PBL planning. Related Articles:View the enlightening video below to be reminded of the evolving nature of education and our changing role as educators!
According to Brenda Doucette of EdTechTeacher, this is how it works... The original PDF remains in your Drive and a new, converted document is created. You can open your new document and rename, edit, annotate, share, etc. just as you can do with any other Google Doc, Slides or Sheets. This works best with PDF documents that are clear and mostly text-based. Tables, images and formatted text can be a bit of a challenge for Google Docs (images and tables tend to end up on one page and text on a separate page), but I am sure it’ll get even better and easier in the next update.
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