Lemon Tech Tidbits

Quizziz is a website that allows you to student-paced formative assessment in an easy and fun manner. It works on any device and is easy to set up. In addition, there are thousands of quizzes already created by other teachers and students ready to be used. Recently, Quizziz announced a few additions to this great site. Now, a teacher can set the quiz to be read aloud to the student. For students who struggle with reading, this is a great new feature! You also have the option of setting how many retakes a student can take, hide answer feedback, and allowing answer review (without showing the answers) automatically. In addition, you can unlock flashcards in the reports section and allow students access to them. Quizziz works very well with Google Classroom allowing you the ability to post to many different classrooms with the results showing up automatically as the students play. Quizziz has a series of videos that walk you through exactly what it is, how to get it set up, and ho...

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

QUIZLET: NOW WITH LABELING GAMES Quizlet is one of my favorite sites to use to create easy study guides and games for students…..especially in creating flashcards. What makes it so great is its FREE, easy to use, and there are already thousands of study sets already created for the busy teacher to use and/or modify. But Quizlet use to have one flaw, it did not include a way to study diagrams…..until now. Quizlet has just announced you can use diagrams and illustrations to create a study guide (flashcard set) for your students. From Quizlet itself, ”Creating diagrams on Quizlet is simple. With convenient annotation tools, locations and definitions, you can quickly add new layers of customization to your study material.” What is more, they already have some created for you to check out and use today: https://quizlet.com/diagram-showcase

I love when I discover a new technology blog / resource person, especially if their blog is full of really good stuff that can be used right away. I would like to introduce you to..... Tammy’s Technology Tips for  Teachers. Tammy Worcester Tang, who incidentally is married to Greg Tang, has over 25 years experience in the educational world. She is currently retired from ESSDACK as an Instructional Technology Specialist but continues to provide staff development and training in the field of tech integration.  Her blog is full of wonderful technology tips such as Google templates ready to be used, step-by-step instruction for student activities and a link to her favorite website and iPad apps. One of my favorites is her post over  Self-Check Quiz Templates. These templates can be used to share a quiz through Google Classroom with your students to self-check their understanding. It even automatically grades the responses giving immediate feedback. Try it ...

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 ...