Manaiakalani Toolkits 2021

 

 SIMPLIFYING TESTING USING GOOGLE FORMS

with Jeremy Ferguson

The time of year where Manaiakalani share a vast range of toolkits to support learning for staff and students within Manaiakalani schools has come once again.  Toolkits are learning opportunities that aim to enhance the Learn Create Share pedagogy.  Teachers from around Aotearoa and possibly beyond can join via Google Meet and a facilitator takes people through whatever topic they have knowledge and skills in.  

Today I attended the Simplifying Testing Using Google Forms Toolkit.  Although I have used Google Forms before, I hadn't really used them to gather assessment information and I most certainly haven't used forms with some of the very helpful features that were shared today.

Here is the slide prepared by the host, Jeremy Ferguson:

New Learning For Me:

• To create a new form, in the Omnibox, type forms.new - This instantly opens a new form as an alternative to accessing through your Google Drive.
• You may have to check the settings so the preferred language is set to your preference for date format is what you want.
• Enabling Quiz Mode allows you to allocate points for answers, has an answer key, lets you give test scores back either instantly or at a later time and can lock the screen so students need to submit their test before any other tabs can be accessed.  
• Presentation settings can include a progress bar so students know how far through they are.
• When gathering responses, you can add to an existing sheet which means you can collect and track data over different time periods.  
• Talk & Comment - This Google extension is very exciting.  You can record audio and insert it into your form so students can hear the question.  

With our midyear assessment time coming up, I am now thinking of more creative, time-saving and different ways to collect assessment information.  My next step is to have a go at creating a Google Form for my Combined Basic Facts Test and also have a go at gathering times tables data.