Forms

Once I got the hang of it (and with lots of help from my partner) it wasn't difficult to create a quiz using Google Forms.  Setting up the self-grading feature (which was kind of the whole point) was a different story. I finally decided to just grade it the old fashioned way for now, so that I'll have some chance of getting both posts done tonight! (I had printed out both sets of written directions, and perhaps one of them will make sense in the morning. They certainly don't make sense to me right now.) But using Google forms to make quizzes and mastering the self grading feature is definitely a skill I want to acquire, so I'll be looking over it again this weekend.

I was really impressed with how easy it was to see which answers were commonly missed and which students had or had not answered correctly when the data is organized (as seen in the tutorial). I'm also curious whether a quiz could be designed to accept multiple answers as correct. (The tutorial stated that it was designed to be used when there are specific answers, but the use of formulas suggests a formula could be created to give 100 for more than one answer. One of my questions was "Who is/were the greatest British rock band of all time?", and although I know the proper answer is the Beatles, I was willing to accept the Rolling Stones as an alternative.)

I looked at both middle school lesson plans, and realized I had completely forgotten that forms could be used as a way of collecting data, rather than just as a tool to create tests! It was interesting to see  how it could be used to make visually appealing surveys and to correlate the collected data.