Google Form Options for Quizzes

Alice Keeler shares her strategies for both randomizing questions as well as allowing for student choice.  Please see her blog post here.  While I have used the sections and shuffle approach before, the student selection options were new to me.

Differentiating assignments using Google Forms

Using the feedback option in Google Quizzes (Form) you can suggest different assignments for correct and incorrect responses.  Please see this video for clear step by step directions.

Locked Google Quizzes

If you are looking for a quick step by step on using the locked Quiz feature in Google forms- look for further In this blog post, Charly Choi will spell out everything you need to know!  Just remember, this feature only works on Chromebooks (not on the desktops in the library or some of the labs).

When you use Google Forms as a quiz

As Alice Keeler points out in this blog post, certain questions in a Google Form default to zero until manually graded.  The prime example is probably the short/paragraph response. You need to manually grade these responses to over the zero.  This is one reason I don’t have the responses sent immediately (upon submission) to the students- that grade will reflect the zero and not your scoring.

Change the question (and answer) order

Richard Byrne (Free Technology for Teachers) recently posted a short video that demonstrates how to shuffle the answers (and questions) in a Google form (or Quiz).

Locked Quizzes in Google Forms

Looking for a quick overview of the locked form feature?  Check out this video:

Just a few reminders- locked quizzes only work on district managed Chromebooks and only allow the students to take the quiz once.

It bears repeating- don’t make a copy

So you want to give a Google Quiz.  You make one and then copy it for each class, right?  Wrong. Use the method suggested by Alice Keeler (just add a question about the period and then sort it on the spreadsheet). Complete directions are here.

Send then a certificate

While there are several ways to send completion certificates to folks, but Certify’em is probably the most creative.  This is an Add On for Google Quizzes.  You can select the certificate template as well as the passing score to generate a the emailed certificate. Please see Alice Keeler’s post here for all the details.

More to LOVE in Google Quizzes

Ever since I read these blog posts (6 Ways Quizzes in Google Forms are getting Smarter)

and ( Six new features coming to Google forms), I have been checking to see if the rollout

was complete- and today it is!

While you can read the complete update in the above blogs, here are my favorites additions:

• There is now a running tally at the top right of the Google Quiz with the number of points.You will know exactly how points the quiz is worth.
• If you are grading manually, you can now add fractions of a point. This will be helpful with partial credit.
• The grid questions (both multiple choice and checkbox) can be automatically graded. (I used parts of speech in my sample.)
• Google will try to anticipate the answer while you are writing the question.  On this sample quiz, I didn’t enter any of the answers to the two multiple choice questions.  Google suggested both the correct and incorrect answers.

Here’s a sample quiz to view.

Branching Quizzes

Folks who have attended by Escape Room classes know branching Google Quizzes.  These are quizzes that based on your answer, send you to a different location. In the escape room, we use them to ensure students get the correct answer before moving to the next question.  Alice Keeler has a great step by step review of the process here.