The Ultimate Guide to Creating Assessments with Google Forms

The Ultimate Guide to Creating Assessments with Google Forms

Google Forms is an easy but powerful tool for teachers to create online assessments for their 
students. And with the help of the Flubaroo add-on, the quizzes can be graded automatically 
as well. There are many benefits for using online assessments with students:

• Quicker feedback - With autograding quizzes, students can get their resuts  in a matter

 of minutes, rather than having to wait until the next day (at the soonest) see if they understand
 the material or need more help.

• More frequent assessments - Since the quizzes can be graded electronically,

 teachers can easily give small assessments each day or so, giving teachers much more

 frequent feedback on how their students are doing, and if they need to adjust their instruction.

• Statistics - Since the assessments are digital, so are the results, which makes it much 

easier to do item analysis, look for patterns, and determine where the needs are.

• Preparation - Most states are moving to online assessments for their high stakes grade 

level tests for students, such as PARCC, Smarter Balanced, and AIR. It is important that students

feel comfortable taking tests online so the state tests will assess their content knowledge, not

their technology skills (or lack thereof). Using online assessments in your class will help 

prepare students for the state tests.

• Collaboration - With digital assessments it is easy for teacher to collaborate with their

colleagues when writing the quizzes, or to share assessments with other staff for their use.

• Special Needs - By going digital we are also able to take advantage of assistive

 technology. For example, with onlineassessments students can zoom in as needed,

 and use text to speech to read the questions.

• Multimedia - Online assessments don’t just have to be digital versions of the same

 old paper and pencil tests. Instead we can incorporate color images and videos to provide

 a richer experience.

• Savings - And of course going paperless can help save on paper, ink, and budgets.

And there are probably many more benefits as well. The next question then is … how to you

 create, distribute, and grade online assessments?

See below for a large collections of resources I have created to give you everything you

 need from getting started to advanced techniques. You will find two videos, each an hour

 long, as well as several help guides and slideshows.

Part 1: Online Assessments with Google Forms

Part 2: Advanced Online Assessments with Google Forms


 Resources

Part 1: Online Assessments with Google Forms
 Help Guide - "Using Google Forms for Online Assessments" - Google Document link
 Slideshow - "Using Google Forms for Online Assessments" - Google Slides link
 Training video - "Online Assessments with Google Forms" - YouTube Video

Part 2: Advanced Online Assessments with Google Forms
 Slideshow - "Advanced Online Assessments with Google Forms" - Google Slides Link
 Training video - "Advanced Online Assessments with Google Forms" - YouTube Video

General
 Help Guide - "Using Google Forms" - Google Document link
 Slideshow - "Google Forms for Everything!" - Google Slides link 

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