eSchool News

APRIL 3, 2024

One tool I’ve used and recommend is Turnitin, which has been around for more than 20 years to promote academic integrity, streamline grading, deter plagiarism, and improve student outcomes. Here are a few ideas: Leverage AI to reinforce writing concepts with students like grammar and essay structures.

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Academic Integrity Intelligence Essay Plagiarism 242

Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 5, 2023

While multiple choice, short answer, and essays are still proven methods, there are many alternatives teachers can use for their particular student group. Assessment of student work is a crucial aspect of learning. It helps students recognize important lesson goals and teachers gauge understanding.

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Quizzes Peer Review Failure Essay 159

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

It can handle a variety of language tasks, including answering questions, writing essays, generating creative content, offering explanations, giving advice, and engaging in natural-sounding conversations” (as explained by ChatGPT itself).

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Ethics Essay Syllabus Feedback 339

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Middle school students in grades 6-8 flex their civics knowledge for a chance to win recognition and cash prizes. “We are excited to help students practice for the National Civics Bee through quizzing and conversations with Khanmigo,” said Kristen DiCerbo, Khan Academy’s chief learning officer.

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Math Middle School Middle School Essay 265

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.

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eSchool News

MAY 28, 2024

Khanmigo was launched last year in grades 5-8 and used in core content areas, which are typically math, reading, writing, and science, according to the district. In 2020, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation committed $12 million to Khan Academy to support the continued development of the organization in grades 3-12 math.

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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.”

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Testing Multiple Choice Questions Quizzes Assignments 155

Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2017

The letters in ThinkCERCA represent the building blocks of an essay: claim, evidence, reasoning, counter argument, and audience. Once teachers choose a lesson, the program provides a six-step process to help students analyze the readings and produce a cohesive essay.

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Writing Essay Teaching Quizzes 123

Edsurge

MAY 6, 2019

There are also quizzes and online study groups where users can chat. On April 6, she did a livestream session where she answered students’ questions, and pulled up a Google Doc on screen to show them how to write an essay. On Fiveable, visitors can watch livestreams of AP exam review for free. It was a date I will never forget.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 27, 2017

Create, conduct and grade quizzes. Assign, collect, review and grade assignments. All learning takes place within Moodle, not through videos or quizzes. The platform offers a plethora of tools to customize courses as pretty much whatever teachers need, including: Upload video, audio, and links. adding assignments.

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Quizzes Learning Essay Assignments 113

1 plus 1 plus 1 equals 1

APRIL 19, 2025

We are almost finished with my daughter’s 10th grade homeschool high school and made a few changes that I thought I would share! Curriculum We Added IEW SIS Level C (instead of Elegant Essay ) Fix It Grammar (bringing back instead of the grammar we were using) Critical Thinking Co. Homeschool high school worked for us!

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Grades Curriculum Essay Textbooks 52

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 10, 2017

I currently work at Allen Academy in Bryan, Texas, as the Head of Middle and Upper School and I teach one 8th grade geography class. I had been teaching eighth grade geography for four years at that point, and historically, I had used a textbook and pacing chart to cover the curriculum. Learning journey for 11th and 12th grade AP U.S.

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Syllabus Learning Course Outline History 156

Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2018

If I were to use Writable to create a rubric for writing and grading funding announcements of the type you might typically see on EdSurge , it might look something like this: The K-12 writing-support tool is not (currently) designed for publications covering startups and venture capital.

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Writing Feedback Peer Review Plagiarism 113

Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 22, 2018

A well-known fact: A large portion of every teacher’s workflow is actually consumed by the assignment review, collecting the student work, notifying the class about upcoming events, changes in the timetable, revision, and grading. Here the learners use the study cards, play educational games, and take tests that will be graded automatically.

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Quizzes Essay Learning Assignments 94

eSchool News

MAY 1, 2024

Students can receive real-time explanations, targeted practice based on missed questions, and instant grading for written essays, all at a fraction of the cost of expert-based AP tutoring, which can exceed $1,000 per course. TeachTap currently offers these 11 courses: Nine AP exam preparation courses: U.S

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 27, 2025

Every semester, a student hoping to “earn their desired grade” approaches me at the last minute, asking to make up all their missed assignments. Why shouldnt a professor simply allow a student to complete all the assignments before final grades are due without regard to timing? So why enforce due dates at all.

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Assignments Exams Learning Quizzes 108

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

However, assessment is more than just grading and is often misunderstood. In order to provide useful information to instructors and students about student achievement, it must be understood that student assessment is more than just a grade because it should link student performance to specific learning objectives.

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Fairness Instructors Feedback Evaluation 122

Faculty Focus

MAY 2, 2024

The pressure to solve problems, answer multiple-choice question, and write essays on an exam scares them. Is it related to the course specifically, their confidence as learners, worries about the grade, test anxiety, or the absence of some necessary skill? Or, students may be anxious because they’ve done poorly in related courses.

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Teaching Multidisciplinary Multiple Choice Questions Exams 111

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 1, 2018

Depending upon the level of service subscribed to, students can view videos, take practice quizzes and exams, and get credit for classes passed through a proctored exam. Take quizzes and proctored exams available in your subscription. All they need is an internet connection and a webcam (for proctored exams). Great stuff.

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Exams Quizzes Textbooks Syllabus 83

Faculty Focus

MARCH 27, 2025

Every semester, a student hoping to “earn their desired grade” approaches me at the last minute, asking to make up all their missed assignments. Why shouldnt a professor simply allow a student to complete all the assignments before final grades are due without regard to timing? So why enforce due dates at all.

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Assignments Exams Learning Quizzes 96

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2024

However, courses characterized by rigid policies, bell-curve grading, and multiple assignments that lack clarity, purpose, and/or authenticity create a level of logistical rigor that depletes students’ motivation, engagement, and limited cognitive bandwidth. This type of intellectual rigor is desirable in course design.

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Syllabus Exams Students Motivation 132

Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Assessing student learning used to be as simple as giving a test that consisted of multiple choice, True/False, short answer, and/or essay. Simply grade, record, and move on to the next chapter. Once they finish, teachers can assess learning either formatively or summatively using quizzes, games, and more. Students answer them.

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Learning Essay Students Testing 104

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 9, 2024

Conducting regular assessments using real-time polls and quizzes allow students to understand how well they’re doing and where they may need to place additional effort. In a field study involving schools across the United States, teachers gave students the opportunity to revise an essay they’d written. Educational Psychology Review.

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Course Design Feedback Instructors Students 128

Faculty Focus

MAY 2, 2024

The pressure to solve problems, answer multiple-choice question, and write essays on an exam scares them. Is it related to the course specifically, their confidence as learners, worries about the grade, test anxiety, or the absence of some necessary skill? Or, students may be anxious because they’ve done poorly in related courses.

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Teaching Multidisciplinary Multiple Choice Questions Exams 103

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

However, assessment is more than just grading and is often misunderstood. In order to provide useful information to instructors and students about student achievement, it must be understood that student assessment is more than just a grade because it should link student performance to specific learning objectives.

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Fairness Instructors Feedback Evaluation 111

Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2018

How do we move beyond grades to more meaningful demonstrations of learning? Where there’s an alternative there must be a standard, so we started our chat creating a list of what those standard assignment are: exams, quizzes, essays, reports, lab manuals and the like. Do exams still serve a purpose? The challenge is huge.

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Assignments Exams Instructors Learning 96

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 25, 2017

When I started teaching, homework always involved paper–a worksheet, a poster, a written essay, or something else like that. quizzes and polls. Many LMSs provide options for uploading worksheets and images, annotating online materials, grading and commenting within the site. calendar of events and due dates. whiteboard.

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Assignments Students Quizzes Evaluation 113

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 9, 2024

Conducting regular assessments using real-time polls and quizzes allow students to understand how well they’re doing and where they may need to place additional effort. In a field study involving schools across the United States, teachers gave students the opportunity to revise an essay they’d written. Educational Psychology Review.

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Course Design Feedback Instructors Students 111

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 3, 2023

Now, students are wondering why they have to do assignments that AI chatbots could do for them, especially when AI could do the work, like write an essay or research paper, in just a few seconds. Students are rarely told why they have to do papers, projects, essays, discussion forum posts, or other assignments other than “to get a good grade.”

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Failure Academic Integrity Assignments Universal Design 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 3, 2023

Now, students are wondering why they have to do assignments that AI chatbots could do for them, especially when AI could do the work, like write an essay or research paper, in just a few seconds. Students are rarely told why they have to do papers, projects, essays, discussion forum posts, or other assignments other than “to get a good grade.”

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Failure Academic Integrity Assignments Universal Design 98

Edsurge

AUGUST 4, 2018

They adopted a similar strategy in Maryland, offering schools quizzes that aligned to the state’s high-stakes assessment. Scaling a business to profitability while operating on a freemium model is nearing urban myth status. The same principle applies to edtech companies.

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Counselling Quizzes Essay Beliefs 117

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2024

However, courses characterized by rigid policies, bell-curve grading, and multiple assignments that lack clarity, purpose, and/or authenticity create a level of logistical rigor that depletes students’ motivation, engagement, and limited cognitive bandwidth. This type of intellectual rigor is desirable in course design.

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Syllabus Exams Students Motivation 103

Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 25, 2018

When students — and adults — think of learning to keyboard, it usually generates images of rote drills where you sweat over a keyboard as you’re graded on speed and accuracy. Using word lists is a great way to practice keyboarding while learning those important word lists that populate every grade level. Word lists.

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Quizzes Essay Grades Knowledge 90

Teaching with a Mountain View

APRIL 25, 2025

Families can also help students practice at home with quizzes, discussion topics during dinner, etc. Math Continental Mathematics League (CML) is a national competition designed for students in grades 2 through 12. Reading Word Masters is a national competition for students in grades 3-8 that focuses on vocabulary and verbal reasoning.

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Critical Thinking Essay Participation Math 52

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 4, 2019

Common Sense Media’s award-winning Digital Passport is the gold-standard in teaching digital citizenship to grades 3-5 (or Middle School). This free-to-schools online program mixes videos, games, quizzes, and the challenge of earning badges to teach students the concepts behind digital citizenship : Communication. Digital Passport.

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Activities Schools Ethics Writing 88

k12 Online Schools

MAY 9, 2025

Recommended Tools Kahoot and Quizizz: Great for quizzes that feel like competitive games. When students feel they have control, learning becomes something theyre doing for themselves, not just for a grade. Higher test scores and better historical analysis in essays. This helped make school fun for students. The result?

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Schools Motivation Gamification Essay 52

k12 Online Schools

MAY 3, 2025

It makes sense, standardized curricula, grading systems, and content delivery allow for scalability and consistency. Host quizzes, storytelling hours, or digital exhibitions of local art. Supreme Court cases, and writes essays on African decolonial literature. Does Standardization Mean Cultural Neutrality? Theyre layered.

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