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teq.com ssessing student learning can be one of the most important, but challenging things for a teacher to do. With the help of Adigital tools, that process can be made easier and more efficient. Educators today have a variety of technology-based assessment tools to choose from to create, administer, and collect data from quizzes. The information collected with these tools provides real- time data to see what students comprehend as it is being taught in the classroom. Assessment reports and online grading tools take away the tedious task of collecting and grading quizzes, as well as provide educators with spreadsheet-style assessment results that can focus on the student, the question, or even the topic. To help bring solutions to classrooms, our Teq PD team created this eBook, to inform you about some of our favorite and most useful assessment apps.

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Socrative This comprehensive and easy-to-use tool is great for creating online learning assessments for your classroom. a ocrative, named after the Socratic questioning method, allows teachers to create, share, administer, and grade quizzes. The easy-to-use interface Senables quizzes to be created using multiple choice, true/false, and short Platform: answer questions. Quizzes can be saved for later use or shared with other Web-based, Socrative users. Socrative can be downloaded as an app for iOS devices, and iPad, and Android is available at the Google Play store for use on a Chromebook. The beauty of Socrative is that it is accessible from any web-enabled device. Because of this feature, teachers can leave quizzes for students, and with access codes Price: provided by the teacher, students can log in and complete the quiz at home! Free, limited to 50 Another great feature is the real-time questioning that is available with a students per classroom web-enabled device in the classroom. Teachers can ask questions out loud and launch an instant multiple-choice question in Socrative, allowing all students to answer in real-time. In a traditional classroom, not every student would raise their hand and get the opportunity to answer a question, but with Socrative every student’s response can be recorded and tracked by the teacher. From pre-created quizzes to exit tickets, Socrative is an excellent assessment tool for the classroom.

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dmodo EAn excellent tool for creating effective and user-friendly virtual classrooms; Edmodo is perfect for sharing documents and supporting online quizzes. b dmodo is the popular social and learning platform for educators that functions as a virtual classroom. Teachers can hand out/collect assignments, discover Ematerials other Edmodo users are using, and much more. At Teq, we use Edmodo Platform: for nearly everything. When used to its full potential, it can drive all aspects of your Web-based, classroom. From finding resources and sharing that material with other teachers iPad, and Android and students, to continuing class discussions and collecting assignments online, Edmodo allows you to do it all! To see Edmodo in action, check out our archived webinar “Going Further with Edmodo.” (http://www.teq.com/video/teq-webinar- Price: going-further-with-edmodo) Free Edmodo’s easy-to-use quiz feature allows teachers to create quizzes using a variety of question styles, and upload them to their virtual classroom. Each quiz allows for PDFs, testing documents, videos, links, and image options to be included to support the quiz — perfect for including actual questions from previous state exams. Using the teacher-provided access code, students can log on to their teacher’s virtual classroom, and complete quizzes and assignments while receiving immediate feedback for their answers. Once completed, teachers can review student quiz scores, along with what questions the students got right or wrong, and then submit that information to the Edmodo gradebook.

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teq.com Nearpod Assess student learning during class presentations, while controlling the pace of the lesson with Nearpod. c hether you have a 1:1 environment or BYOD (bring your own device) classroom, Nearpod is an excellent tool to control presentations on an WiPad. Using Nearpod, teachers can create and upload presentations and students Platform: can log in through the iPad app, and watch. The teacher controls the speed of iPad the presentation, as well as what students see on their iPad. Teachers can post videos on Nearpod, which can then be played at the same time on each of the Price: individual students’ iPads. The app is free. Nearpod also offers controlled polling, questions, and quizzing features that Subscriptions can be allow students to answer teacher-prompted questions at their own speed, right either free or paid, on their individual iPads. This app can also provide teachers with a graph view of depending on the student responses to questions/polls, or progress throughout a quiz. Afterwards, the teacher can export the results via email to add to their gradebook. Nearpod is services. For more details an extremely effective way to engage and control student progress throughout a on the available options lesson, while getting real time data from their responses. visit www.nearpod.com

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teq.com earning InfuseL Creative thinking skills will soar as students draw and annotate answers with InfuseLearning. d nfuseLearning is a tool that is taking the BYOD (bring your own device) movement by storm. Infuse Learning is an online assessment platform that students can Iaccess from any mobile device. Teachers can launch assessments and ask instant Platform: questions in a variety of format styles. What makes InfuseLearning unique is that Web-based, accessible it allows for teachers to include pictures along with their questions, making for through web browser on a more intriguing online assessment. Students can annotate over those teacher- a mobile device posted pictures, and complete interactive tasks such as plotting points on a graph, or identifying symbols on a political cartoon! InfuseLearning even lets you make assessments ahead of time, and track student data to see student progress over Price: time. Check out how to use InfuseLearning in our “Ready Set Quiz” (http://www. Free. Requires a free teq.com/video/teq-webinar-ready-set-quiz-) webinar. teacher account.

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teq.com with Flubaroo orms Google F An excellent tool for creating online assessments that are easy to share, and even easier to grade. e oogle Forms is a free and easy way to create online assessments of student learning, as well as quick polls or exit tickets, to assess a student’s grasp of a Gconcept taught that day in the classroom. Google Forms can be created through Platform: Google Drive on any computer with Internet access. Once the teacher creates a Web-based, accessed Google Form (that can include questions in the form of multiple-choice, true/false, through web browser on check list, short answers, and more), they are provided with a website that can be a mobile device distributed to students. The website includes a form for the students to answer, and in real time, a Google Spreadsheet with student responses is created and filled out in the teacher’s Google Drive. Price: However, Google Forms does not have the capability to grade the assessments Free, requires Google themselves. Grading the assessments can be done through a separate script called Drive account to createforms. Flubaroo. With Flubaroo, forms can be graded automatically. Running the Flubarro script takes the first answers filled out through the Google Form, resultsand uses forit asthe an answer key. This process is very similar to using Scantrons (when a teacher would first scan an answer key to tell the software what answers are right or wrong). The results can be emailed individually to students or exported as class teacher to analyze. And the greatest benefit to using Google Forms and Flubaroo — it’s free and can be used on any device, as long as they connect to the Internet! To learn more about how to create and use Google Forms and Flubaroo, check out our archived webinar on Google Drive at http://www.teq.com/video/teq-webinar-google-drive.

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