Appropriate Grade Levels: K-12
Overview: Google Forms is a versatile tool that is part of Google Docs in the Google Drive. Forms allows you to create forms, surveys, and assessments with a variety of response types such as multiple choice, short answer, paragraph text, drop-down menu, and checkboxes. You can also upload images and videos into your form. The creator can customize their form to be as many questions as they like and insert page breaks if creating a longer form. There are a variety of pre-designed templates to add some pizzazz to your form. Once your form in created you can send the link for anyone you want to complete it. As people complete the form, their answers are automatically populated into a new spreadsheet within your Google Drive. If you want multiple people to be collaborators on creating your form, such as all the teachers on your team, you can just add their names with editing rights.
Tutorial: This is a basic guide to creating a simple classroom assessment.
Assess prior knowledge to help with differentiation.
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Exit ticket
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Comprehension Check
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- Socrative - An online assessment tool that has game options. It is a good tool if you are just doing multiple choice or true false, but doesn't allow for longer responses. The text response option is graded incorrect if spelling isn't correct.
- Plickers - This is very engaging and good for test reviews and quick exit tickets. Students hold up cards with simplified QR-code-like symbols and the teacher uses their mobile device to instantly capture their answers.
- Edulastic - This is an online tool where you can create a class and have a wide variety of question types. What I like is that it gives you choices where the students have to drag choices into a correct order or label a picture. It takes a little longer to learn than Google Forms because it does have a lot more options.
What's being said:
- 5 Time-Saving Ways Teachers Can Use Google Forms - A great article on Edudemic with some other ideas for how useful this tool is.
- 81 Ways Teachers Can Use Google Forms With Their Students - This information is presented in slideshow format with some really great uses. They found ways I hadn't thought of that combine other types of technology with the use of the Google Forms.
Evaluation: Web 2.0 Technology Selection Criteria
Additional Useful Information: If you want to learn how to use a simple add-on called Flubaroo to grade your Google Forms, watch their 3 min tutorial to the right. | |