Lemon Tech Tidbits

In Alice Keeler’s latest blog post, she explains how you can easily create a self-grading form and share it with your students in Google Classroom to help expand their critical thinking skills.  To create a self-grading form, one of the tricks is to NOT use the Quiz Assignment in Google Classroom. Alice explains that creating the form directly in Google Classroom, it makes it harder to reuse in more than one class. Alice Keeler does include a video of all of the steps but in my opinion, I find it is easier to follow the steps she includes along with gifs showing you exactly what she means. For this, you will need to make sure you go to her blog post: https://alicekeeler.com/2020/04/15/self-grading-google-form/ The video of her instructions can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ROTRZMl0LA&feature=emb_logo

Alice Keeler shares a way you can use the power of machine grading without the hassle of having to retype the questions. An example she gives is when students need to answer the questions at the end of the chapter of a textbook. No one wants to spend the time to retype questions for each chapter nor has the time to grade them too. So her solution is to take an idea from the old Scan cards & use a default Google Form to do the work for her. First, you will need to create a new Google Form. Using the multiple-choice questions, title the first one Question 1 and in the answer section, simply put A, B, C, D, etc. (Google will even help you do so). Then, it is as simple as clicking on the duplicate button to make question 2 and 3 and so on. Finally, you do need to set the answer key but this can be done quickly for the chapter. For the next chapter test, you can simply make a copy of the Default form, change the answer key and you are ready to go again. Make sure to check out her post...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dya_OE8EIQ How To Issue Certificates When A Student Successfully Passes A Quiz in Google Forms Richard Byrne has come out with a blog post that I feel is very timely for all educators. As you are preparing for your final exams, how about giving your students a quiz in Google Forms that automatically gives them a certificate of achievement? In the video above, available on Free Technology for Teachers, Richard walks you step-by-step in how to make this a reality by using the add-on called Certify’em .

GOOGLE FORMS TIPS, TRICKS and UPDATES Google Forms just keeps getting better. Here are a few Google Form tips, tricks and updates to be aware of from some of my favorite blogs to follow. Multiple Correct Answers in Google Form Quizzes. 24 Tips for Google Form Users (video webinar) Google Forms: Alternating colors in response answers 3 Tips Everyone Should Know

FormLimiter  is a Google Forms add-on that works really well for Google Classroom purposes and does exactly what the name implies…..it helps limit the use of the form. FormLimiter can be used as a way to make sure only students in a certain class can complete a quiz using Google Forms by setting the time when it will no longer be available. (hint: create one quiz using Google Forms and make a copy for each class. Then use the add-on formLimiter to make the quiz only available during the class period).  You can also use formLimiter to cut off responses after a certain number has been received or after a certain period or due date. Carol LaRow has created a PDF handout to walk you through all of the steps on how to use formLimiter. You can access it here: https://goo.gl/jdDbpa To watch a how to video, click here:  https://youtu.be/X3rQyf1wc_4

Protect Your Google Form by Adding A Password Google Forms can now be used to create a quiz for students and then seamlessly distributed through Google Classroom.  But ... .how do you make sure only students who are suppose to access the quiz are the ones who do? Simple ... ..add a password. Here is how: In GoogleForm, add a question at the very top and call it “Password.” Make it a required question.  Change the type of question to Short Answer.  Click the three dots on the bottom right- hand corner and select Data Validation.  In Data Validation-pull down the boxes and make sure it says Regular Expression - Matches - (whatever your password will be)  In Custom Error Text, you can add a message you want the viewer to receive if they type in the password incorrectly.  Add another section and carry on with creating the quiz.  *HINT: you can put in the password yourself and not tell the student or you can share the password with one class ...