k12

JULY 10, 2025

Polls and Quizzes: Encourage your child to participate in polls or mini quizzes if their online platform offers them. Online learning isn’t limited to slides and reading assignments. Some programs also include regular quizzes or assessments, which can help demonstrate how well they absorb the material.

Online Learning 52

Online Learning Quizzes Learning Motivation 52

Catlin Tucker

JULY 2, 2019

In a blog post I wrote titled Ask Yourself, Why Am I Grading This? , 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. How is one teacher supposed to grade all of the work that 150+ students complete?

Grades 419

Grades Assignments Evaluation Coaching 419

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. Grading papers is still a daunting teaching duty. Teachers have many tools available to encourage students to turn-in those assignments on time. It is not an easy task.

Grades 254

Grades Technology Blended Learning Quizzes 254

Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 18, 2015

This year as I was preparing for my own first day, I realized…my 9th and 10th grade students are perfectly capable of reading, so why would I spent 20 minutes of this precious first day reading to them? Students love taking online quizzes, so they enjoy the experience and I get to know their learning styles! So, I didn’t.

Syllabus 420

Syllabus Learning Styles Schools Quizzes 420

Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 25, 2019

Many teachers collect homework and take piles of student work home to grade. Homework is designed to be practice, so I’ve never understood why it is graded and often becomes punitive. I’d suggest using a quizzing tool that automatically grades the students’ answers (e.g., 3 Homework Check & Review.

Teachers 420

Teachers Essay Feedback Quizzes 420

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

You can create quizzes for the books your students are reading and assign collections to your students. Vooks : Vooks is a wonderful resource for the PK-2 grade teacher. For the primary grades it has read aloud stories with lessons provided to go with the story. I have been able to use it at every level I have taught.

Elementary School 338

Elementary School Elementary School Schools Quizzes 338

Edsurge

MAY 9, 2023

And the way the grading system in education works has long bothered him. Her score on that exam was so low, in fact, that she realized she had no chance to get an A in the course, no matter how well she might do on future tests and assignments. After that, this professor vowed never to use traditional grades on tests again.

Grades 198

Grades Exams Feedback Testing 198

eSchool News

JUNE 15, 2017

Creating them, administering them, and grading them are just the beginning. It takes so much effort on the part of the teacher, not to mention all the paper and by-hand grading and recording that has to happen on the teacher’s personal time. Kahoot allows the teacher to build fun quizzes, flashcards and games.

Quizzes 216

Quizzes Mobile Devices Essay Assignments 216

eSchool News

APRIL 10, 2025

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. I love that I can find a library of pre-created quizzes or create my own. Assessment should be as dynamic as learning itself.

Evaluation 276

Evaluation Quizzes Critical Thinking Feedback 276

eSchool News

MAY 6, 2015

Creating, sharing, delivering and grading of tests, along with analysis of results, happens in real-time in one platform. Being able to easily create and deliver quizzes and tests to students in the classroom, and then put the results of those tests to work immediately to help improve student learning was the motivation behind Apperson, Inc.

Quizzes 254

Quizzes Education Essay Testing 254

eSchool News

AUGUST 1, 2017

We’ve seen educators do incredible things with G Suite for Education tools: creatively teach classroom material, collaborate with students, and design innovative assignments to achieve meaningful outcomes. Classroom is a useful tool for teachers, and since it launched three years ago, students have submitted more than 1 billion assignments.

Quizzes 198

Quizzes Teachers Mobile Devices Assignments 198

eSchool News

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Effective Assessment: Digital tools make it easier for teachers to create and grade assignments, quizzes, and exams. Student and teacher collaboration promotes an effective understanding of different concepts.

Collaborative Learning 314

Collaborative Learning Gamification Teachers Teaching Methods 314

eSchool News

APRIL 30, 2024

Discovery Education : Through the Discovery Education Experience product, Discovery Education offers hundreds of ready-made lessons, quizzes, activity calendars, and ready-to-use resources that use features such as closed captioning, immersive reader, and self-paced activities.

Art 329

Art Students Culture Coaching 329

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 6, 2022

What is wrong with grades? Instructors and students have different ideas about what grades are supposed to measure: Should they be about how much students have learned? Grades can perpetuate bias , inequalities, and injustice, reduce student motivation and willingness to challenge themselves , and add enormous administrative burdens.

Grades 122

Grades Instructors Motivation Metacognitive Skills 122

eSchool News

MAY 1, 2024

Learning management systems (LMS) that facilitate online content delivery, assignments, and grading. Classroom response systems for instant feedback and engagement through quizzes, polls, and surveys. Video conferencing that connects students and educators globally for virtual lectures, discussions, and guest speakers.

Internet 307

Internet Critical Thinking Quizzes Teaching Methods 307

eSchool News

MARCH 16, 2021

On the backend, each learning assessment item in TEL courses, such as quizzes, assignments, and quiz questions, is aligned to metadata that indicates specific learning outcomes and Mastery Standards connected to the item, as well as a difficulty level.

Learning 267

Learning Education Students Quizzes 267

eSchool News

AUGUST 14, 2024

Most tools that teachers have for this purpose are lagging indicators such as tests, quizzes, and homework. By analyzing patterns in students’ grades, attendance, participation, and other behavioral indicators, AI algorithms can predict potential academic risks and learning disabilities.

Teaching 322

Teaching Gamification Feedback Intelligence 322

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

NEW YORK — Tutor.com , one of the world’s largest and most innovative online tutoring organizations, announced today that it has been selected by the South Orange & Maplewood School District to provide round-the-clock online tutoring for students in grades 3 through 12 at no cost to them.

Quizzes 242

Quizzes Achievement Students Social Studies 242

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

And for the first half of his 9th grade year, he did enough to pass, earning Cs and Ds. The day grades were due, I pulled Ray aside at the end of the class and lauded his accomplishments. The video can be delivered to students via a Post to your Edmodo class or as an assignment. Thanks, Mrs. Baker.

Distance Learning 218

Distance Learning Culture Gamification Learning 218

Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2018

How do we move beyond grades to more meaningful demonstrations of learning? On Tuesday, April 24 the #DLNchat community got together to discuss and debate: How Can Alternative Assignments Effectively Assess Student Learning? The community also noted digital portfolios as an example of assignments whose life extends beyond the course.

Assignments 96

Assignments Exams Instructors Learning 96

Edsurge

MAY 10, 2018

Yet more professors seem to be turning to the format these days, as teaching loads and class sizes grow, since multiple-choice quizzes and tests can be easily graded by machines. After all, she notes, “you’re never going to encounter multiple-choice quizzes on the job somewhere.”

Testing 157

Testing Multiple Choice Questions Quizzes Assignments 157

Faculty Focus

APRIL 17, 2025

In my mind, the purpose of learning was to get good grades. Grades were everythingsymbols of success and a source of validation. I continued this pattern in college, focused solely on grades and making my parents proud. Feedback-Only: No Points I do not attach points to any assignments. But when I graduated, I felt lost.

Grades 97

Grades Social Studies Learning Feedback 97

Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Here are some you can look into–and all online: Easy CBM Educreations –video a whiteboard explanation of how students are completing a task (app) Edulastic –formative assessments; work on any devices (app) Flip — record a video question from your desktop; add attachments; students respond from the app with their answer Flubaroo (app) (..)

Quizzes 158

Quizzes Peer Review Failure Essay 158

Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 15, 2024

Some reasons why you may find these tools beneficial are: Organization: organize lesson plans, assignments, and resources efficiently Communication: between teachers, students, and parents to foster a collaborative relationship, keep everyone informed Student Engagement: to make learning more interesting and interactive Time Management: schedule reminders, (..)

Classroom Management 183

Classroom Management Mobile Devices Plagiarism Quizzes 183

Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 3, 2024

From spanning out schedules and lesson planning to grading, the responsibilities seem a never-ending cycle and quite overwhelming. It allows more educators like you to create, distribute, and grade assignments, albeit paperless, especially in online learning sessions.

Activities 158

Activities Quizzes Education Feedback 158

eSchool News

APRIL 3, 2024

Rather than relying on this score alone, his teacher called him to discuss the assignment. He went on to explain each piece of art in great detail, showing his understanding of the assignment. Use AI to develop games and quizzes aligned with the school curriculum. This example highlights that using an AI tool isn’t “bad.”

Academic Integrity 240

Academic Integrity Intelligence Essay Plagiarism 240

Gaggle Speaks

JULY 14, 2015

How many copies of essays or homework assignments do students give teachers every week? In addition, finding paperless grading workflows becomes more important as blended learning environments expand and teachers no longer communicate with students solely face-to-face. Here are some benefits to paperless grading: • 24/7 feedback.

Grades 94

Grades Quizzes Instructors Essay 94

Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2022

How do we get students to do pre-class work without giving a grade to everything? It actually requires some unlearning, and some changes in approach, to create an environment that better encourages students to complete assigned activities. To incentivize that, I typically assign reading exercises and quizzes.

Motivation 200

Motivation Reading Instructors Assignments 200

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

But this week, Google acquired Workbench , a Baltimore-based company that provides an online library of lessons and projects, organized by subject and grade level, that educators can use in their classrooms. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Educational Technologies 167

Educational Technologies Technology Quizzes Education 167

eSchool News

JULY 28, 2022

The total of 400 existing quizzes makes it quick and easy to customize, or educators can create quizzes from scratch or use as-is for turnkey assignments. Real-time tracking of student progress with My Classrooms, an intuitive new way to navigate between tracking student progress and assignments.

Quizzes 174

Quizzes Education Learning Assignments 174

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 6, 2022

What is wrong with grades? Instructors and students have different ideas about what grades are supposed to measure: Should they be about how much students have learned? Grades can perpetuate bias , inequalities, and injustice, reduce student motivation and willingness to challenge themselves , and add enormous administrative burdens.

Grades 98

Grades Instructors Motivation Metacognitive Skills 98

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Cengage Learning’s MindTap is a fully built course experience that integrates reading, homework, quizzing, multi-media assets and more. We also developed all new features, such as the flashcard-based Practice Quizzes for the app as a result of our research.

Quizzes 154

Quizzes Instructors Learning Feedback 154

Edsurge

APRIL 25, 2017

This product is designed to offer ways to assign work from a large body of standards and content that is vetted, and provide new reporting for teachers,” Khan tells EdSurge. Instructors might send students to the Khan Academy website for additional practice, or have computer stations in class where students complete online quizzes.

Testing 164

Testing Quizzes Teachers Assignments 164

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Some believe it will cripple the education system and replace human workers ; others denounce ChatGPT as a free essay-writing and test-taking tool that makes it laughably easy to cheat on assignments, while the validity of responses generated by ChatGPT has also been called into question.

Ethics 337

Ethics Essay Syllabus Feedback 337

Edsurge

MARCH 20, 2020

Keep assignments simple. Assignments should be described very clearly so that students can succeed. It can be tempting for teachers to assign lots of independent work. However, teachers should give assignments that are bite-sized and similar to what they would assign on-campus. Focus on healthy living.

Assignments 186

Assignments Learning Schools Quizzes 186

Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2017

We all have that one teacher who seems to take months to grade even a single test. We spend the entire semester wondering what our grade is. Socrative helps counteract this slow grading syndrome. It’s a student response system that allows teachers to make quizzes that students can take on their device.

Quizzes 141

Quizzes Textbooks Syllabus Students 141

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.).

Lecturing 218

Lecturing Disabilities Learning Assignments 218