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JULY 10, 2025

For many families, online learning opened the door to new possibilities in education. There are proven tools, techniques, and activities that can enhance the engagement and effectiveness of online learning for students. Supporting your child’s engagement helps them thrive academically and strengthens their enthusiasm for learning.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 16, 2025

The key to engaging reluctant high schoolers is to get them more interested in their own learning. Use these classroom strategies for reluctant learners in high school to build relationships, stoke curiosity, and build a learning team that focuses on student success. Find new ways to assess learning 5. Build a learning team 11.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Our school was already using a learning management platform for quizzes, tests, and homework assignments, so we had a good starting point as we shifted to remote learning, yet there were still many lessons to learn. Related content: STEM education and hands-on learning. Tools for teaching science remotely.

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eSchool News

APRIL 29, 2019

My biggest goal as a teacher is to make every one of my students know how important they are and how invested I am in their learning and well-being. I want students to enjoy learning and to walk out of my classroom with a new level of confidence. Here are three ways I use technology to personalize learning for all of my students.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

As we settle into another academic year filled with uncertainty due to the pandemic, educators are taking a deeper look into what can be learned from the tumult of the last two years. Schools around the world were forced to quickly pivot to virtual learning and many have just recently returned to a traditional, in-person model.

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Quizzes Learning Online Learning Assignments 282

Catlin Tucker

JULY 2, 2019

Too often, teachers assign work that students complete in isolation. In this traditional workflow, where is the opportunity for a conversation about that work and the learning happening? There are learning management systems and online programs that teachers can use to administer assessments that are graded automatically.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 29, 2024

One significant development is collaborative e-learning, which integrates social interactions among peers and teachers. From podcasts, YouTube captions, personalized learning dashboards, and social annotation, teachers now have a variety of e-learning methods at their disposal. What types of e-learning are there?

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Editor’s note : This story on collaborative learning originally appeared on CoSN’s blog and is reposted here with permission. And those benefits are even greater when educators and students learn together, especially as we navigate new tech enablers like AI apps and tools.

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eSchool News

MARCH 16, 2021

Students often struggle to make connections between what they learn in their college courses and the skills they need to be successful after graduation. Rob Reynolds, “One of the biggest challenges in today’s education environments is that, for many students, learning has become a ‘black box’ of sorts. Why do I need to know this?

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 18, 2015

Then they fold the index cards in half and write their names on the front so I can begin learning them. What’s Your Learning Style Quiz. They move right from the 10 questions activity to an online quiz titled “What’s Your Learning Style?” Socrative Pop Culture Space Race. I run the quiz as a space race.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

A few years ago, while working as a teacher librarian at Templeton Elementary School in Oregon, I had the opportunity to redesign the school’s library website to include digital resources for the students to use as part of a shift to 1:1 iPad learning. Identify the content needs of the district.

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eSchool News

APRIL 23, 2020

Online education is fairly synonymous with asynchronous learning. Most people assume the move to online courses means students are logging on to the learning management system to take reading quizzes tied to their assigned textbook chapters and posting in the discussion board in line with weekly modules as their schedules allow.

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 22, 2024

Formative assessment is a process of gathering information about students’ understanding and their progress toward firm standards-aligned learning goals. Formative assessment helps teachers gauge how effective their instruction has been at helping students learn concepts and apply skills.

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Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 25, 2019

In my work as a blended learning coach, I observe a lot of teachers facilitating blended lessons. If teachers are assigning homework, it would be more powerful to use that practice to encourage students to reflect on their progress and identify the gaps in their understanding of concepts and skills. 5TeacherLed.

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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. How can teachers use an online blending learning platform efficiently in the classroom?

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Grades Technology Blended Learning Quizzes 249

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Classroom learning and management all begin with relationships, and SEL can guide the relationship and community building process. Any connected educator has heard buzzwords like flipped classroom, gamification, social-emotional learning (SEL), differentiation, and personalized learning.

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eSchool News

MAY 6, 2015

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. making its Evo Academics assessment platform available free-of-charge to educators everywhere.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

And that is one of the learning objectives: that we know very little about other places.” University of Michigan marketing professor John Branch rebuilds the learning experience by taking a precision engineering approach to course design. Tell me about your Armchair Anthropologist assignment. Source: Course Hero.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Assessments are more than just measuring how well students are doing in particular subjects in school, and they can actually improve student learning. The testing effect, also known as retrieval practice, practice testing, or test-enhanced learning, needs a place in today’s modern learning. The Testing Effect and LMS Technology.

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eSchool News

APRIL 10, 2025

With the rise of digital tools, teachers now have innovative ways to assess learning that provide deeper insights and engage students more meaningfully. It allows students to compile evidence of learning through text, images, videos, and links, fostering creativity and critical thinking.

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Evaluation Quizzes Critical Thinking Feedback 267

eSchool News

OCTOBER 19, 2023

OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, has released a new guide to help educators navigate the many ways AI can be used in teaching and learning. OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, has released a new guide to help educators navigate the many ways AI can be used in teaching and learning. You can take these ideas and make them your own.”

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

You can create quizzes for the books your students are reading and assign collections to your students. Epic allows for all students to research and learn about different topics. For the upper grades you can assign passages and assignments to specific students. This helps to differentiate instruction.

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eSchool News

APRIL 15, 2020

Eko is offering its solution for FREE to support learning during the COVID-19 outbreak. Eko’s virtual classroom experience ensures teachers, students, parents and school staff all stay connected ensuring a sense of school community and spirit, minimizing the disruption to learning and student progress.

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Quizzes Exams Learning Communication 162

Edsurge

OCTOBER 1, 2020

There is a dearth of evidence to help teachers make informed choices on how to allocate time to asynchronous vs. synchronous online learning. By looking at research into online learning and human development, we can begin to grapple with the advantages and disadvantages of each approach. Let’s start with the basics.

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eSchool News

JUNE 15, 2017

Some programs allow teachers to create assignments and comment on them through the platform of the program, where each student has an individual account and can see his or her assignments; to help assess the student throughout the learning process. Kahoot allows the teacher to build fun quizzes, flashcards and games.

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Quizzes Mobile Devices Essay Assignments 210

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Discovery Education–the global leader in standards-aligned digital curriculum resources and professional learning for K-12 classrooms–today introduced update s to the award-winning Discovery Education Experience platform designed to support educators and students in distance and hybrid learning environment s.

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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.

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Quizzes Teachers Mobile Devices Assignments 196

Catlin Tucker

APRIL 15, 2024

Given that variability, it makes sense that not all students would need to spend time engaged in the same learning tasks or activities. This twist on the station rotation model combines the strategic collection and use of data with student agency to create a more personalized and student-centered approach to this blended learning model.

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Edsurge

MARCH 20, 2020

Optimism and cheerful spirits can create an environment where learning can take place in particular—and it is also good for mental and physical well-being generally. Keep assignments simple. Assignments should be described very clearly so that students can succeed. Consider a learning management system. Keep routines.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

New app is intended for on-the-go learning. Cengage Learning announced the availability of the iOS and Android compatible MindTap Mobile app. Developed based on student feedback, MindTap Mobileallows students to access many features of Cengage Learning’s MindTap e-learning platform directly from their smartphones.

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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? Ideally, exams should be used more as a learning tool than an assessment tool. Yes exactly.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Chasen is a familiar figure in edtech: he co-founded Blackboard, one of the largest providers of learning management systems to colleges and schools, and served as its CEO for years. Now you can use Zoom, but take attendance, hand out assignments, give tests or quizzes, proctor those exams, and talk one-on-one with the students,” he says. “We

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Online Learning Technology Quizzes Learning 195

eSchool News

JULY 28, 2022

July 28, 2022) — Discovery Education —the worldwide edtech leader whose state-of-the-art digital platform supports learning wherever it takes place—today announced a host of new enhancements to its award-winning K-12 platform. Among the latest enhancements made to the Discovery Education K-12 learning platform for back-to-school are: .

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Quizzes Education Learning Assignments 165

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

In order to make students discuss the learned material in the class, it is important to provide them with encouragement and help that gives a good stimulus to learn and discover more. The idea is the main component in argument forming, and actively learn teaches students how to communicate by asking and answering questions.

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eSchool News

MAY 16, 2018

The great thing about informal assessments is they help us gauge students’ understanding during the learning process instead of after. Informal assessment also changes teachers’ relationship to student learning. This helps students know what they need to be thinking about as they are learning. 2 things I found interesting.

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eSchool News

JUNE 20, 2022

The course uses Canvas to manage the online, asynchronous portion of learning – this includes recorded lectures by ASU faculty, along with weekly assignments and quizzes. Conducted on Zoom, students from across schools join to review the current learning module, complete homework and ask questions.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 21, 2024

Online learning offers unmatched flexibility and accessibility, enabling both students and educators to manage their schedules effectively and break down geographical barriers. Online learning offers flexibility and accessibility that traditional classrooms were never capable of. Online learning breaks down geographical barriers.

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