
INTRODUCTION
There are tons of tools available for gathering feedback from students, colleagues and other groups. Whether you need an anonymous brainstorming tool (eg: AnswerGarden) or a detailed survey form with lots of options (eg: Google Forms) there’s likely a free or relatively cheap option available.
This lesson includes a variety of tools that can be used for brainstorming, exit tickets, data collection, assessments, feedback and more.
READINGS, TIPS, RESOURCES
- Empowering Teachers With Tech-Friendly Formative Assessment Tools
- 5 Reasons for Formative Assessment and 5 Methods for Utilization
- Know Students Better: A Visual Guide to Formative Assessment Tools – Great graphics by Tony Vincent that summarize the features of many tools.
- Student Assessment & Feedback Tools – Wendy Molle posted this terrific summary of the tools she tested for the 2016/17 Cool Tools workshop.
- 20 Formative Assessment Tools for Your Classroom – Short summaries of popular tools.
- 5 Fantastic, Fast, Formative Assessment Tools – VIcki Davis discusses different approaches to formative assessment and a variety of tools for each approach.
- 12 Great Formative Assessment Tools for Teachers
- 11 Backchannel & Informal Assessment Tools Compared in One Chart
- – Note that Todays Meet is no longer available.
- The Ultimate List – 65 Digital Tools and Apps to Support Formative Assessment Practices – The NWEA has updated this list. Every tool you could imagine.
- Snapshots Of Understanding? 10 Smart Tools For Digital Exit Slips
TOOLS TO EXPLORE
- Padlet – Formerly known as WallWisher, handy and easy to use noteboard. Free / Fee. At it’s simplest, you set up a padlet board with a question. Students can add their reactions to the board, no student accounts needed. Lots of layout options and privacy settings.
- Introduce Yourself – Test it out by introducing yourself on this year’s CoolTools padlet.
- 30 creative ways to use Padlet for teachers and students – lots of great ideas.
- How to Use Padlet: A Fantastic Tool for Teaching
- PRICING NOTE: As of early 2018, if you’ve never had an account, you’ll be limited to 3 Padlet boards. Users with an account are limited to the number of boards they already have plus 3 new ones. Many people were understandably upset by this change, but the creator of the service just couldn’t sustain the service any longer.
- Flipgrid – Terrific tool for recording short video responses to questions. FlipGrid has been acquired by Microsoft and is now completely free!
- Andy Plemmons: Natural Side of Student Voice – comments about using Flipgrid
- 2nd Graders Use Their Research To Respond Via Flipgrid!
- The Educators Guide to FlipGrid – Free PDF with tons of details about using FlipGrid. Other getting started resources are linked from that page.
- FlipGrid for the Camera Shy – Some great tips for helping camera shy students use this video based tool.
- GridPals – Connect with other educators around the globe.
- Pop Up tent for recording – Flipgrid was giving away tents similar to this earlier in 2018. Handy for noisy rooms and for students who might be a bit shy about recording their videos.
- PeerGrade – Run a “live session” for student peer review of work. Students sign in with a code, no email needed. They submit their work with a Google Drive link, a link to URL, text typed right in the app, or by uploading a file. They then give feedback on the work of 3 other students. And finally receive their own feedback.
- Quizlet Live – Well known for creating flash card sets to help students learn and review content, the Live option turns your sets into a game. Quizlet creates random teams from your student lists and they must work together to answer questions and complete the game.
- Spiral – Currently includes 3 types of student activities: Quickfire for quick questions and answers, Discuss for interactive presentations, and Team Up for group work.
- Vizia – Import a video from YouTube or Wistia. At any point in the video, easily insert polls and questions to check for understanding.. Students play the video, it stops where you’ve inserted a question. Students need to answer or skip questions to proceed. Results can be added to a Google sheet, along with student name.
- EdPuzzle -Similar to Vizia. Add a video and add questions, quizzes and polls at specified points.
- Kahoot – “Create, play and share fun learning games for any subject, for all ages, for free!” Very popular and lots of fun. NOTE: Watch out for students hijacking Kahoot with fake accounts.
- Quizziz – Somewhat similar to Kahoot with some different options. Both are great for quiz like games in class. Short video from Tony Vincent demo-ing how it works.
- Formative – Add content for students to review, then create assessment questions for them to answer. Create class groups to simplify administration.
- SeeSaw – free iOS app lets students upload digital work and photos of physical work. Teacher can provide feedback, parents have access.
- Seesaw, The Learning Journal – blog post by Joyce Valenza
- Plickers – iOS app to gather feedback from students in the classroom. You have the app on your device, students each have a large printed card with a QRCode on it. Each card can be used to select the answer A, B, C or D to your multiple choice question. Students hold up their card, you scan the room and app gathers answers.
- AnswerGarden – Free tool for web and iPad. Pose a question, respondents answer anonymously and a word cloud is created.
- Google Forms – Great for creating feedback forms and quizzes. Input is saved in a Google Drive spreadsheet. Google Forms now has a self grading feature.
- Video explaining the self grading features.
- Flubaroo for self grading quizzes – Flubaroo has been around for quite a while and still has some features that the Google self grading feature doesn’t have. See this post for a comparison: New Google Forms Quiz Feature vs Flubaroo
- RemindChat – Safe and simple one-on-chat messaging with students and parents. From the folks at Remind (formerly Remind 101)
- PearDeck – adds interaction and feedback options to slide deck presentations. Free option and discounted educator pricing.
- Clipisode – Make a video with a question, students can reply and add to the video. I haven’t tested this out yet, but looks really interesting!
LEARNING ACTIVITY
- Explore 2 or 3 assessment tools that are new to you, whether listed in this lesson or other tools you want to explore.
- Points to cover in your blog post:
- Share why you chose the tools you did and how your testing worked out.
- If you tried something out with a student or other group, tell us how things worked out.
- How you might use these tools in your school setting.
- Any other tips and ideas that you want to share.
*TURNING IN YOUR ASSIGNMENT
- Write & publish your blog post.
- Copy the URL (webpage address) for your post.
- Return to your Google Classroom, find the assignment page for the lesson you just completed and follow the directions for turning in and sharing your work.
*Only for students participating in the workshop for PD credit hours through the Google Classroom.
https://www.peardeck.com
Edshelf of tools: https://edshelf.com/shelf/christicollins-quiz-tools/
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18. Jeopardy Rocks
https://www.jeopardy.rocks
Educators who are fans of using games to facilitate learning will
appreciate Jeopardy Rocks. This free, easy-to-use tool allows users to
create and save their own Jeopardy game questions to use in the classroom.
Users can then facilitate their Jeopardy games by projecting the game board
onto a screen, wall, or other surface. Facilitators can reveal new
questions by clicking on each square and adjust scores simply by indicating
whether a team answered correctly or incorrectly. Facilitators may choose
to adjust the number of players (or teams) to accommodate different class
sizes. Users will need to sign up for a free account to create and save
games. [MMB] (The Scout Report — Volume 22, Number 27)
Typeform for creating surveys etc
https://www.typeform.com/
https://learninginhand.com/blog/know
http://blogs.slj.com/neverendingsearch/2015/12/12/orange-slice-rubrics-for-docs/
http://cooltools16.blogspot.com/2017/01/thing-18-student-assessment-and.html
Spiral has 4 activities now. Check out the newest version: https://spiral.ac
Thanks Mark!
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–Poll Everywhere Word Cloud. https://www.polleverywhere.com/word-cloud – can create a word cloud from feedback K12 free account allows up to 40 responses per poll.
— classdojo
More formative assessment tools to consider:
https://goformative.com/
https://www.quia.com/web
https://edulastic.com/
https://www.sugarcane.com/
https://www.ixl.com/
including a free ebook on using Book Creator in formative assessment. https://bookcreator.com/2018/09/using-book-creator-for-formative-assessment/
https://wordwall.net/
This site has a great variety of assessment tools. I found three that use in my class often. Quizziz, Kahoots, and Google Doc