End of the semester, you are managing LAST MINUTE PILE of Late Work. If you are a Google Classroom user here are some tips to help you deal with the inevitable last minute rush of papers.
Category: Grading
EXCLUDE Assignments in Google Classroom
Exclude assignments from reporting in Google Classroom. You want to have more control over what gets reported to guardians and other stakeholders. Decide what to exclude from the progress report.
Hacking Google Classroom for Standards Based Grading
Standards Based Grading for Google Classroom users. Hack your class to allow for a better way to communicate student progress on standards.
How to Make a Rubric with Multiple Choice Grid in Google Forms
How to Make a Rubric with Multiple Choice Grid in Google Forms. Rubrics are great tools for evaluating student learning, Google Forms makes rubrics even better.
Google Classroom: Grading with Drive’s Preview Mode
Preview student files in Google Drive for a faster experience to review student work.
5 Tips for Faster Student Feedback
Feedback is really time consuming but important. Give students faster feedback with these 5 tips.
Going Gradeless with @mssackstein
Guest blog post by Starr Sackstein Start of School Series: Hacking Assessment Q & As – Shifting the Grading Mindset On this week’s Q & A, Isaac Wells and I discuss shifting the grading mindset. Defining this concept and how the grading mindset has come to shape students and teachers in our system. As we…
Three Strikes…You Got It!!!!! by @daveschmittou
35 students in a class. 70 standards to teach. 180 days of school. Teaching is about so much more than the numbers, but the numbers can tell a powerful story.
Sharing Rubrics in Google Classroom or Microsoft Teams
Google Classroom and Microsoft Teams allows you to add a rubric to an assignment. You can also share your rubrics with other teachers. Google Classroom Create an assignment in Google Classroom with a rubric. Locate the assignment on the Stream. Click on the stripe to expand the preview of the assignment. FROM THE PREVIEW find…
Google Classroom: Sort Attachments by Status
After opening a student document from Google Classroom it opens in the Feedback tool. Notice the arrows along the top that go to the next student… alphabetically. Instead, click on the tiny triangle in the student chooser bar and sort by “Status.” Now when you use the arrows to move to the next student it…
Giving Feedback Wastes Your Time
Do You Waste Your Time Giving Feedback? Feedback is effective for learning. Vygotsky’s Zone of Proximal Development basically says you can only get yourself so far and you need someone to push you further. This is what we do as teachers, we help kids get further. This means we can not just accept their initial…
The First 2 Weeks by @tguskey
Help EVERY Child to Find Success I am a big Thomas Guskey fan. I first came across his research while a doctoral student (I dropped out.) My research focus was on “How can we make the gradebook more like World of Warcraft?” In my research on grading practices I frequently came across and cited Guskey….
Google Classroom: Make Your OWN Grades
Which Gradebook Defines Your Classroom? I have been loathing this update since the first day that Google Classroom came out. The gradebook. Now it is here and it is available to everyone and it is terrible. How can one gradebook algorithm possibly define what unique and awesome things are going on in each teachers classroom?…
Well Intentioned, but Damaging
How Does That Score Make the Student Feel? I have fond feelings about my 4th grade teachers, both of them. Because I could not do math facts fast I had to repeat the 4th grade. My teachers were well intentioned with the timed math facts, but it has had a lifetime of negative impact on…
Extra Credit Only Feeds The Rich by @jstevens009
Why do we give extra credit? Who gets the extra credit? Does this create equitable learning opportunities?