By: Allysen Lovstuen and Erik Dutcher There are many technology based options available for collecting, assessing, and providing feedback on student work (especially important while working remotely) that are supposed to help us work smarter. But it requires a lot of hard work to sort through them all! Those that I have tried all have strengths and weaknesses. Ease for students, options available, workflow to provide individualized feedback from the teacher, providing a summary of results, compatibility with PowerSchool/Canvas, ... these are all considerations that may come into play. Learning every tool and analyzing it ourselves quickly becomes overwhelming, yet some of those factors are district specific and it is difficult to research online and know you are getting valid information and not a sales pitch. Let's help each other to work smarter, not harder. Erik Dutcher and I will start by sharing our thoughts on some tools we have tried over the past few weeks. We welcome you to expand on our entries (we know some of you have much more experience using Google than us) or provide information on other tools you have used in the comments. The top entry under each tool is that thing that most makes it stand out from our perspective.
New Canvas Quizzes* (reviewed by Allysen Lovstuen) There is a new option in Canvas to create a New Canvas Quiz when you click to add a quiz. I have not had a chance to try this with a class yet. So far these are my observations.
If you have questions on any of the tools above, feel free to contact Erik or Allysen. We look forward to hearing about what is working/not working for you in the comments!
* - integrates with Canvas to the point where scores are published directly into Canvas and can therefore be synced to PowerSchool.
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Michaela Seeman
4/27/2020 01:22:35 pm
What great resources! Thank you for sharing your take on the positives and negatives of these resources! I'm excited to give several a try!
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Jennifer Larson
4/27/2020 02:12:18 pm
Thanks for reviewing these resources. I used EdPuzzle last week with Canvas for my 7th and 8th graders. Loved how easy it was to see student results within Canvas. I will check out some of the other tools you recommend.
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Sarah Zbornik
4/28/2020 08:54:26 am
Thanks for your ideas! I'm looking forward to checking out the new Canvas Quizzes.
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Allysen
4/28/2020 08:05:18 pm
I've been thinking a lot about the Hot Spot feature. Students could be asked to identify a certain note on a staff (is my terminology right?), part of a cell, country on a map, point on a graph, feature on a painting, error in a piece of sample work, comma that should be removed, the list goes on and on...
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Zachary Fromm
4/29/2020 11:57:59 am
New Quizzes in Canvas?! Where the heck have I been? I really like the ease of tethering Learner Outcomes to each question. An option in the old version as well, I believe, but hits you in the face a bit more in the New Quizzes version. Thanks for this. Time savers if we take a risk and give them a shot!
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Greg Murphy
5/5/2020 05:09:41 pm
Very good and detailed information on how to use available resources. It will take a while for some of us to develop an understanding of these methods but thanks for the introduction.
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