Formative Assessment Tools
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Plickers
Plickers is a classroom response app that teachers can use very easily without having devices for each student. It uses QR code cards for quick checks for understanding to know whether your students are understanding big concepts and mastering key skills.
Free Plickers Card Set
Poll Everywhere
Poll Everywhere allows you to poll your students in real time and students can respond via text message or online response.
Poll Everywhere Overview Video
Free - up to 25 responses per poll
GradeCam
Gradecam will scan and automatically grade your bubble sheets.
Free for 10 question quizzes.
Kahoot
Kahoot is a game-based classroom response system. You create multiple choice questions that can include images and YouTube videos. Students play the Kahoot and receive immediate feedback. Teachers can run reports on student data.
Socrative
Socrative empowers you to engage and assess your students as learning happens. Through the use of real-time questioning, result aggregation, and visualization, you have instant insight into levels of understanding
Quizizz
Quizizz is a fun multiplayer classroom activity, that allows all your students to practice together. (Similar to Kahoot)
Go Formative
Go Formative
Great way to go paperless with PDFs, Word, GDocs.
Create an assignment. Assign it. Receive Live Results. Give Immediate Feedback.
Padlet
Padlet is a collaboration board you create online for your students to add their thoughts, opinions, images and videos. Check out one of my examples.
Answer Garden
Answer Garden is a new minimalistic feedback tool. Plant a question and invite participants to your AnswerGarden. Their answers will instantly form a growing word cloud!
Analyze My Writing
Analyze My Writing is an online text content and readability analyzer. Copy and paste a text into the homepage and gain a wealth of information about your text including word and character counts, word and sentence lengths, the readability of your text, and other analyses.
EDpuzzle
EDpuzzle makes videos interactive with audio notes and questions for whole group instruction or individual viewing. Answers are automatically graded and open ended questions are easy for teachers to grade and give feedback.
Google Form Add-ons & Features
Google Forms
Google Forms is a Google app where you can create quizzes online that can be automatically graded and analyzed.
Add-on: Flubaroo
Flubaroo is a FREE add-on to Google Forms/Sheets which lets you quickly grade and analyze student performance on multiple choice and fill-in assignments.
Feature: Insert a Chart
Click Insert - Click Chart
Choose the chart you want to use based on your data