Tech Tuesday
Formative Assessment Tool for Your Interactive Lesson
The Answer Pad
The Answer Pad (www.theanswerpad.com) is a website and app that makes formative assessment easy in your classroom. The Answer Pad's "Go Interactive" offers a variety of different functions related to assessing student understanding with quick assessment. First, teachers can see if all of their students are online through the teacher dashboard, and they can send out questions of all types to their students, including a blank pad or graph that allows teachers to see how their students are working through the problems. Teachers receive a full image of each student’s work, and they can share and project it for the rest of the class to see. Second, teachers can poll students using multiple choice to gauge their class’s understanding in real-time in a bar graph format. Of course they want you to purchase their product, but there are plenty of free templates available for you to use in your lessons. Check it out...I think you will like it!
TAP2 Interactive Overview
There is a free version...and a paid version if you love it and want to use the advanced features.
Teachers can register for free, create their class, and sign up their students. They have the option of entering their students' info, importing a roster, or having the students self-register with a registration code. Students can download the TAPit app for free onto their iPads or access the app on a computer through a web browser.
The Answer Pad is free for up to 200 students over 8 classrooms.
The FREE version of The Answer Pad Interactive
Want to Know More?
Want to use this in your classroom but need to know a little more???
Video: Learn how The Answer Pad is helping teachers engage their students on their mobile devices