1 5 Great Apps for Assessing with Quizzes a b c d e 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. a b c d e teq.com SOCRATIVE This comprehensive and easy-to-use tool is great for a creating online learning assessments for your classroom. ocrative, named after the Socratic questioning method, allows teachers to create, share, administer, and grade quizzes. The easy-to-use interface Platform: Senables quizzes to be created using multiple choice, true/false, and short Web-based, answer questions. Quizzes can be saved for later use or shared with other iPad, and Android Socrative users. Socrative can be downloaded as an app for iOS devices, and 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 Price: this feature, teachers can leave quizzes for students, and with access codes Free, limited to 50 provided by the teacher, students can log in and complete the quiz at home! students per classroom Another great feature is the real-time questioning that is available with a 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. Teachers log in here Students log in here Room ID Quick questions Premade questions For more information about Socrative, check out this webinar. (http://www.teq.com/ teq.com video/teq-webinar- ready-set-quiz-) DMODO EAn excellent tool for creating effective and user-friendly virtual classrooms; Edmodo is perfect for sharing documents b and supporting online quizzes. dmodo is the popular social and learning platform for educators that functions Eas a virtual classroom. Teachers can hand out/collect assignments, discover Platform: materials other Edmodo users are using, and much more. At Teq, we use Edmodo Web-based, for nearly everything. When used to its full potential, it can drive all aspects of your iPad, and Android classroom. From finding resources and sharing that material with other teachers 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 Price: webinar “Going Further with Edmodo.” (http://www.teq.com/video/teq-webinar- Free going-further-with-edmodo) 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. Post here Hit “Quiz” to begin quiz creation Hit this button to add a new question to your quiz teq.com NEARPOD Assess student learning during class presentations, c while controlling the pace of the lesson with Nearpod. hether you have a 1:1 environment or BYOD (bring your own device) Wclassroom, Nearpod is an excellent tool to control presentations on an Platform: iPad. Using Nearpod, teachers can create and upload presentations and students iPad can log in through the iPad app, and watch. The teacher controls the speed of 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. Subscriptions can be Nearpod also offers controlled polling, questions, and quizzing features that either free or paid, allow students to answer teacher-prompted questions at their own speed, right depending on the on their individual iPads. This app can also provide teachers with a graph view of services. For more details student responses to questions/polls, or progress throughout a quiz. Afterwards, on the available options the teacher can export the results via email to add to their gradebook. Nearpod is visit www.nearpod.com an extremely effective way to engage and control student progress throughout a lesson, while getting real time data from their responses. Teacher log In Student log In Emails teacher test results Room ID Number of students See student results in real time Slides of your presentation teq.com INFUSELEARNING Creative thinking skills will soar as students draw d and annotate answers with InfuseLearning. 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 Platform: Iaccess from any mobile device. Teachers can launch assessments and ask instant Web-based, accessible questions in a variety of format styles. What makes InfuseLearning unique is that through web browser on it allows for teachers to include pictures along with their questions, making for a mobile device a more intriguing online assessment. Students can annotate over those teacher- 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 Price: assessments ahead of time, and track student data to see student progress over Free. Requires a free time. Check out how to use InfuseLearning in our “Ready Set Quiz” (http://www. teacher account. teq.com/video/teq-webinar-ready-set-quiz-) webinar. Log in screen Add pictures to questions Manage your quizes Launch a quick question Use this ID for student log in Insert a picture Send a question to a student teq.com GOOGLE FORMS WITH FLUBAROO An excellent tool for creating online assessments e that are easy to share, and even easier to grade. 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 Platform: Gconcept taught that day in the classroom. Google Forms can be created through Web-based, accessed Google Drive on any computer with Internet access. Once the teacher creates a through web browser on Google Form (that can include questions in the form of multiple-choice, true/false, a mobile device check list, short answers, and more), they are provided with a website that can be 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 Price: out in the teacher’s Google Drive. Free, requires Google However, Google Forms does not have the capability to grade the assessments Drive account to create themselves. Grading the assessments can be done through a separate script called forms. Flubaroo. With Flubaroo, forms can be graded automatically. Running the Flubarro script takes the first answers filled out through the Google Form, and uses it as 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 results for the 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. Start creating forms here. Click “Create” to access the dropdown menu Example form teq.com ABOUT TEQ ur programs are structured to assist schools and districts transition to the latest standards and assessments. OTeq’s professional development prepares administrators and their staff to create pathways for rigorous learning, student achievement, college readiness, and success in a global economy. We can help with the proactive use of data systems that measure student growth and success, and inform educators how they can improve instruction. 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