AI in education needs more than innovation–it needs intention
eSchool News
JUNE 10, 2025
worksheet materials) However, most AI tools in education today are not designed with curriculum integrity in mind.
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How 4 districts use AI tools to transform education
eSchool News
APRIL 25, 2025
The Gems evaluate the uploaded information and offer a review of the district’s current curriculum. Educators in Miami-Dade County Public Schools use Gemini to generate quizzes and answer keys, and students are creating study materials aligned to concepts they’re struggling with for personalized tutoring and support.
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Reimagining the Flipped Classroom: Integrating AI, Microlearning, and Learning Analytics to Elevate Student Engagement and Critical ThinkingÂ
Faculty Focus
JULY 1, 2025
AI-enabled systems such as adaptive learning platforms, chatbots, and generative tools like ChatGPT can provide students with on-demand explanations, simulate peer discussions, offer low-stakes quizzes, and give instant feedback. Simply replacing lectures with videos or adding quizzes does not constitute a true flip.
Reimagining the Flipped Classroom: Integrating AI, Microlearning, and Learning Analytics to Elevate Student Engagement and Critical ThinkingÂ
Faculty Focus
JULY 1, 2025
AI-enabled systems such as adaptive learning platforms, chatbots, and generative tools like ChatGPT can provide students with on-demand explanations, simulate peer discussions, offer low-stakes quizzes, and give instant feedback. Simply replacing lectures with videos or adding quizzes does not constitute a true flip.
Rethinking student assessment: Tools and strategies for meaningful evaluation
eSchool News
APRIL 10, 2025
Here are five powerful resources that can transform how you evaluate student progress. For a literature assignment, I have students design a Canva infographic analyzing a novels themes. The pre-made quizzes also offer instant feedback, helping students reflect on their learning process.
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Grading Less in a District that Requires a Minimum Number of Grades
Catlin Tucker
JULY 2, 2019
I encourage teachers to think about the purpose of the work students are doing and evaluate whether it makes sense for them to invest their time and energy grading that work. Too often, teachers assign work that students complete in isolation. The students were evaluated on the model they designed and on their explanation.
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Formative Assessment is Key to Being Responsive
Catlin Tucker
APRIL 22, 2024
Unlike summative assessment, which typically occurs at the end of a learning cycle to evaluate students’ overall progress toward the unit’s desired results, formative assessment is ongoing and designed to inform instruction, indicate areas where additional differentiation is needed, and guide learning. Check for understanding.
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3 ways to ease grading with blended technology
eSchool News
JUNE 2, 2017
As the academic school year ends, many teachers come to the unforeseen conclusion that some students lack the motivation to turn in assignments on-time. Teachers have many tools available to encourage students to turn-in those assignments on time. It is not an easy task. Grading papers is still a daunting teaching duty.
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Web-based visual vocabulary tool
eSchool News
APRIL 7, 2020
This powerful tool allows teachers to quickly find InferCabulary words within selected passages of text and build assignments based on those words. WordExtractor can also be used to build assignments such as quizzes to help evaluate students’ mastery of selected words.
7 ways AI will make a positive impact on classroom teaching
eSchool News
AUGUST 14, 2024
Most tools that teachers have for this purpose are lagging indicators such as tests, quizzes, and homework. Automated grading and feedback : Automated grading systems powered by AI can significantly reduce teachers’ time evaluating assignments and exams. These lagging indicators exacerbate the issue of lack of capacity.
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Asynchronous Learning or Live Lessons? Which One Works Better for Me?
Edsurge
OCTOBER 1, 2020
“Synchronous online learning” generally refers to live learning activities that must happen at a set time (often over Zoom or a similar platform), while “asynchronous online learning” refers to almost everything else (completing assignments, doing readings, watching videos, etc.).
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Newark Public Schools considers new AI tutor chatbot for districtwide use
eSchool News
MAY 28, 2024
It is also designed to help teachers create instructions for assignments and review student performance. Teachers and students across pilot districts have also said the tool occasionally offers too much help and was too available, especially when students were taking assessments such as quizzes and course challenges, Kunz said.
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The Impact of Technology on Education
eSchool News
DECEMBER 11, 2023
Digital quizzes, online assignments, and real-time feedback mechanisms offer a more dynamic and varied approach to evaluating students’ understanding and progress. Customized Assessments: Technology enables innovative assessment methods, including online quizzes, interactive assignments, and digital portfolios.
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How to Motivate Students to Actually Do Homework and Reading
Edsurge
JANUARY 7, 2022
It actually requires some unlearning, and some changes in approach, to create an environment that better encourages students to complete assigned activities. For instance, instructors can strategically assign tasks that can be auto-graded, or spot-checked. To incentivize that, I typically assign reading exercises and quizzes.
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Educators Are Using Edtech to Facilitate SEL. Here’s How They Gauge Student Success.
Edsurge
OCTOBER 22, 2020
This functionality helps students ask questions about assignments that Lewis creates in PowerPoint, and also helps students strengthen relationships by allowing them to work together in real-time. It’s very informal,” Fine says of her efforts to measure student progress with Google Drive.
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The Daily Quiz
Faculty Focus
SEPTEMBER 12, 2024
I vary both the number and type of questions I use on the quizzes. I administer two daily quizzes in that course. My use of these quizzes has evolved. When I first used the daily quiz assignment, it was an individual quiz. For a while I combined individual quizzes and group quizzes.
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Shifting to a Digital Teaching Model? Here’s Some Advice
Edsurge
MAY 11, 2020
I remember scrambling to learn all I could about the features of Blackboard and reviewing all of my textbook’s eLearning-related ancillaries, assigning self-paced modules and online quizzes to my students. It required me to really rethink teaching, and how best to do it in a digital environment.
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The Daily Quiz
Faculty Focus
SEPTEMBER 12, 2024
I vary both the number and type of questions I use on the quizzes. I administer two daily quizzes in that course. My use of these quizzes has evolved. When I first used the daily quiz assignment, it was an individual quiz. For a while I combined individual quizzes and group quizzes.
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7 Authentic Assessment Tools
Ask a Tech Teacher
FEBRUARY 18, 2015
This doesn’t stop with quizzes, tests, and memorizing facts. Quick Quizzes. They are either delivered at an assigned time during class (where everyone participates at once) or are questions students answer when they gain that knowledge from a lesson. Create a group mindmap to evaluate what the class knows on the subject.
EXO U to launch visual creation, collaboration tool at ISTE
eSchool News
JUNE 28, 2016
With browser-driven publishing, lessons are assigned links and can be sent to students using Google Classroom. Ormiboard comes preloaded with an expanding database of searchable lessons and activities including quick quizzes, click-and-drag assignments, games, and exams. A limited evaluation trial is available at Ormiboard.com.
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Key Digital Innovations for Today’s Education Professionals
Ask a Tech Teacher
MAY 14, 2024
Data gathered through evaluations, completed assignments, and interaction with chatbots or virtual assistants provides educators with insights into students’ unique needs and learning styles. One of its most exciting uses is in creating personalized curriculums that account for students’ interests and competencies.
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University of Michigan Turns Courses Into Games
Edsurge
OCTOBER 20, 2016
Students earn points by completing a much wider variety of assignment and assessment pathways than what is typically seen in most higher education courses today. Students also have autonomy to choose what they want to do within that wide variety of assignments and assessments. Their grades are determined by points accumulated.
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Teacher Shortage Solutions for Computer Science and CTE
eSchool News
FEBRUARY 23, 2024
Moreover, he points to the product’s assessment strategies focused on student outcomes, employing a combination of automated evaluations and teacher-led assessments to ensure comprehensive learning assessment. 00:04:43 Speaker 1 There’s uh, automatic or passive evaluations. There’s. They did it medium.
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Is Paper Your Worst Enemy? It’s Time to Take Advantage of Paperless Grading
Gaggle Speaks
JULY 14, 2015
How many copies of essays or homework assignments do students give teachers every week? In fact, a major barrier for students completing various assignments online has been the lack of a digital grading workflow that instructors can adopt. Loose papers, paper in binders, papers stapled together, and worst of all, piles of paper.
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As Online Learning Grows, So Will Proctors. Case in Point: Examity’s $90M Deal
Edsurge
APRIL 30, 2019
So far, says Examity’s founder and CEO Michael London, customers opt for fully-automated products for low-stakes quizzes and tests, and a mix of human-and-tech approaches for high-stakes exams. That test is no longer around, but he says that experience inspired him to launch Examity in 2013.
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Brightspace Excellence Awards highlight innovation in online learning
eSchool News
JULY 26, 2016
The Brightspace platform enabled students to personally craft their experiences to adapt to their learning needs, while quizzes and other formative assessments made sure students were on track for success.
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Education Technology
eSchool News
SEPTEMBER 25, 2024
Teachers can create and manage assignments, distribute resources, and provide real-time feedback to students. These platforms allow teachers to create lessons, distribute materials, assign homework, and assess student progress, while students can access resources and submit assignments from anywhere. Additionally, Kahoot!
Engaging Students Asynchronously with Interactive Videos
Faculty Focus
MAY 14, 2023
However, by integrating interactive features like quizzes, hotspots, and branching storylines within the video content, instructors can create interactive videos that transform passive viewing into active learning experiences, resulting in improved student performance by up to 30 percent. Dr. Spencer Willis, Jr.
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Are Your Assessments Fair and Balanced?
Faculty Focus
SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
In higher education, there has been an over-reliance on administering summative assessments and simply assigning student grades, often with minimal to no feedback provided prior to the conclusion of the course. Providing student feedback on an assessment, or any assignment, provides extensive value.
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Active Learning Strategies for Students
eSchool News
APRIL 5, 2024
Interactive Lectures: Instead of passive listening, interactive lectures involve activities such as quizzes, polls, or small group discussions interspersed throughout the lecture to keep students engaged and reinforce key concepts. This can involve using flashcards, taking practice quizzes, or summarizing key concepts in their own words.
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6 Tech Activities for Your Summer School Program
Ask a Tech Teacher
JUNE 9, 2022
review debate evaluation rubric. Each week, students will complete assigned steps with the goal of finishing their book (such as plot out action, develop character sheets, and research a setting), then discuss in critique groups of 4-6 students either in person or in a virtual meeting. establish and maintain a formal style.
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Technology Tools for Teaching and Learning
eSchool News
DECEMBER 11, 2023
Online platforms and learning management systems are other examples of technologies that improve student learning and enable teachers to share resources, assignments, and feedback seamlessly. Evaluate the level of support and training provided by the technology vendor to empower educators in effectively using the tools.
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Zap Zap Math–Gamify any Math Curriculum
Ask a Tech Teacher
MAY 30, 2017
Teachers can add quizzes that assess student math knowledge by selecting the grade, the topic, one of the suggested Zap Zap Math games, and the duration. Multiplayer quizzes can be created for any quiz, pitting students against each other in a friendly math challenge. You can track everything on the teacher dashboard.
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Are Your Assessments Fair and Balanced?
Faculty Focus
SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
In higher education, there has been an over-reliance on administering summative assessments and simply assigning student grades, often with minimal to no feedback provided prior to the conclusion of the course. Providing student feedback on an assessment, or any assignment, provides extensive value.
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How You Can Make Homework Easier for Students
Ask a Tech Teacher
APRIL 25, 2017
The problems associated with that approach were endless, including that students couldn’t find the assignment, lost their notes, wrote the assignment down wrong, left their notebook where they weren’t so couldn’t do it, the dog ate it. quizzes and polls. statistical evaluation of student progress.
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Increasing Student Success: A Developmental Approach
Faculty Focus
JANUARY 21, 2024
Flexible policies such as dropping the lowest quiz/assignment score and offering one free pass for a “no-questions-asked” due-date extension can reduce anxiety and logistical rigor. Students must understand why the assignment is important, what is expected, and how the quality of their work will be judged.
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Unleashing the Power of Active Learning: Revolutionizing Online Education for Unprecedented Engagement and Achievement
Faculty Focus
AUGUST 8, 2023
Assigning students to work in groups allows them to engage in shared decision-making, divide tasks, and collaborate on a common project. There are many interactive tools available that can be used to create quizzes, games, and simulations. Group projects serve as powerful vehicles for promoting collaboration and teamwork skills.
Unleashing the Power of Active Learning: Revolutionizing Online Education for Unprecedented Engagement and Achievement
Faculty Focus
AUGUST 8, 2023
Assigning students to work in groups allows them to engage in shared decision-making, divide tasks, and collaborate on a common project. There are many interactive tools available that can be used to create quizzes, games, and simulations. Group projects serve as powerful vehicles for promoting collaboration and teamwork skills.
Investors Write $3.2 Million Check for Writing Startup That’s All About Peer Feedback
Edsurge
AUGUST 22, 2018
For teachers, Writable’s web-based tool offers customizable templates for common writing assignments (such as an argumentative or cause-and-effect essay, or a personal narrative). It’s a problem thesis that has convinced others to write (a check, that is), including Omidyar Technology Ventures, which is leading a $3.2 based company.
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The Power of Choice: Unlocking Student Engagement in the Online Classroom
Faculty Focus
MAY 30, 2023
To counter this, I offer an alternative approach: integrating student choice into course assignments. Assignment structure In an online general psychology course, I experimented with an alternative assignment structure that centered around student choice. Outcome The results were compelling.
Engaging Students Asynchronously with Interactive Videos
Faculty Focus
MAY 14, 2023
However, by integrating interactive features like quizzes, hotspots, and branching storylines within the video content, instructors can create interactive videos that transform passive viewing into active learning experiences, resulting in improved student performance by up to 30 percent. Dr. Spencer Willis, Jr.
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Taking Grades (Stress) Out of LearningÂ
Faculty Focus
APRIL 17, 2025
Feedback-Only: No Points I do not attach points to any assignments. If students want to know how well they did in an assignment, they must read my feedback. Ask for questions to ensure every student understands how to complete the assignment. Review all your reading quizzes (or any other small assignments).
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Best EdTech Tools of 2024
Teach Hub
FEBRUARY 16, 2024
Assessment Tools Several edtech tools are designed to help teachers evaluate students’ progress and performance. This tech tool turns quizzes into games, provides instant feedback to students in real time, and gives teachers a detailed report on individual students and the overall class performance.
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Can We Improve Grading by Collaborating with Students?
Faculty Focus
DECEMBER 6, 2022
However, grades are not going away as a tool for evaluation, sorting, and gatekeeping by institutions and employers, and as a measure of success by students. Students earned points for every assignment that they completed to minimum specifications and for quizzes. No wonder many students and faculty dislike grades!
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