Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 16, 2025

Start the year off with foundational lessons based on CCSS from the previous grade (or even the grade below that) to ensure students have the tools they need to succeed. Once reluctant learners know that success is in their control, you’ll find their grades starting to rise.

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High School High School Beliefs Schools 52

k12

JULY 10, 2025

Polls and Quizzes: Encourage your child to participate in polls or mini quizzes if their online platform offers them. Encourage Feedback and Conversation: Feedback is key to growth, both for students and teachers. These conversations foster independence and improve the overall learning experience.

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?

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Grades Assignments Evaluation Coaching 419

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

You have good intentions about giving feedback that is timely and purposeful for your students or teachers. Technology presents a unique opportunity to allows students access to your feedback in effective, efficient ways, following several steps. Peer feedback works using this method, too. Peer feedback.

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Feedback Technology Quizzes Essay 208

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. 4 Real-Time Feedback. It also means you don’t have to take stacks of rough drafts home to give students feedback.

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Teachers Essay Feedback Quizzes 420

eSchool News

APRIL 10, 2025

It also facilitates peer and teacher feedback, making assessment a more collaborative process. Through the easy-to-use templates, educators can create real-time polls to assess knowledge, check for misconceptions, or gather feedback. The pre-made quizzes also offer instant feedback, helping students reflect on their learning process.

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Evaluation Quizzes Critical Thinking Feedback 282

Edsurge

MAY 9, 2023

And the way the grading system in education works has long bothered him. Gradually these quizzes and tests and timed assessments and the way it all fits together with points and averaging, it just wore her down,” Talbert says. After that, this professor vowed never to use traditional grades on tests again.

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Grades Exams Feedback Testing 198

eSchool News

AUGUST 12, 2024

Teachers can use AI-powered tools like MagicSchool.ai , ChatGPT , and Chatterbot AI to create quizzes and exams that align with their course materials. Teachers can provide ChatGPT with their lessons by uploading them as PDFs or text files and then asking it to create quizzes and tests that include both objective and subjective questions.

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Quizzes Lecturing Ethics Exams 297

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 1, 2015

ExitTicket is a rapid-response tool that lets teachers instantly poll, survey, or test student knowledge via custom quizzes called tickets. Grades : 5-12. Pros : Flexible features and terrific progress-tracking offer an effective way to get immediate feedback. Click here to read the full app review. ExitTicket. Price : Free.

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Quizzes Feedback Knowledge Testing 254

eSchool News

AUGUST 14, 2024

The situation is made even more challenging by the lack of suitable feedback mechanisms to help teachers understand who is struggling in class and to help them quickly find the root cause of the student’s challenges. Most tools that teachers have for this purpose are lagging indicators such as tests, quizzes, and homework.

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Teaching Gamification Feedback Intelligence 325

eSchool News

AUGUST 1, 2017

With this new view, teachers and students can see the status of every assignment, and can use filters to see assigned work, missing work, or returned and graded work. Decimal grading: As teachers know, grading is often more complicated than a simple point value. G Suite for Education-Decimal Grading. Sneak Peak!

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Quizzes Teachers Mobile Devices Assignments 199

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.

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Quizzes Mobile Devices Essay Assignments 219

eSchool News

JULY 15, 2024

They excel at motivating students, managing classroom dynamics, and offering personalized feedback based on nuanced observations. AI should be used as a support tool to handle administrative tasks such as grading and scheduling, and to provide supplementary personalized learning aids like simulations and adaptive quizzes.

Ethics 317

Ethics Education Learning Quizzes 317

Edsurge

JUNE 27, 2016

Erin Turnbach,a 2nd grade teacher, piloted Cast in her New Jersey classroom and describes the experience: “One group was researching frogs. Quizzes in Google Forms. Last but not least, Google Education has announced a quiz feature in Google Forms, where educators can generate quizzes that Forms will auto-grade.

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Quizzes Education Attention History 113

eSchool News

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Effective Assessment: Digital tools make it easier for teachers to create and grade assignments, quizzes, and exams. It also allows opportunities to increase constructive feedback to students and teachers to modify and adapt different teaching strategies for students.

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Collaborative Learning Gamification Teachers Teaching Methods 317

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

It’s easy to critique a learning experience in hindsight—to make judgements like “I wish there were longer breaks,” “I wanted better feedback” or “I needed more visuals.” But those reflections aren’t very useful unless we take that feedback and use it to make change. By lunchtime on the second day, my brain was going to explode.

Feedback 112

Feedback Teachers Quizzes Grades 112

eSchool News

JANUARY 25, 2024

enlightenAI , San Francisco, CA Enlighten AI is creating an AI-powered personalized teacher’s assistant designed to enhance educators’ impact while making their work more sustainable, including grading and giving feedback. Dover, DE Quizard is an academic app designed to help students study for tests and quizzes.

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Textbooks Education Intelligence Quizzes 300

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

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.

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Grades Instructors Motivation Metacognitive Skills 122

eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2016

Once the toolbar pops up, teachers and students can add annotations, embed videos into websites, add maps, quizzes, discussions, and do much more. Grades : 6-12. Cons : Teacher dashboard could give more diagnostics, and feedback from teachers could be strengthened. Price : Free to try, paid for more. Rating : 4/5.

Quizzes 206

Quizzes Learning Feedback Discussions 206

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.

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Internet Critical Thinking Quizzes Teaching Methods 310

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. Instead, I provide rich feedback.

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Grades Social Studies Learning Feedback 97

eSchool News

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Thinglink allows you to make photographs and videos interactive, enabling embedded quizzes, hyperlinks, and branching (choose your own adventure) activities. I also love how the quiz feature automatically provides feedback and tracks student progress to make it easier to monitor and adjust.

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Quizzes Lecturing Learning Styles High School 312

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

It also offers instant feedback when questions are answered and is graded instantly. Grades can even be set up to transfer from Schoology to PowerSchool without teachers having to enter them.”. “Using Learning.com during remote learning has made a huge impact on my teaching,” said Elizabeth Fecher, Technology Teacher at Mt.

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Skills Quizzes Learning Ethics 209

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.

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Activities Quizzes Education Feedback 158

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Developed based on student feedback, MindTap Mobileallows students to access many features of Cengage Learning’s MindTap e-learning platform directly from their smartphones. Cengage Learning’s MindTap is a fully built course experience that integrates reading, homework, quizzing, multi-media assets and more.

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Quizzes Instructors Learning Feedback 157

eSchool News

AUGUST 8, 2018

per month allows for unlimited questions, quizzes, more support, and the ability to export results. Grades : K–12. Like TodaysMeet, Mentimeter enables students to provide real-time, online responses and feedback during class. Grades : 6–12. Grades : 7–12. The Basic version at $4.99 The Pro version costs $11.99

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Quizzes Feedback Discussions Questions 176

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

In both higher education and K-12 education, AI offers numerous potential benefits, including early interventions via identifying students at risk and its ability to provide real-time feedback to both students and teachers , helping identify areas where students may be struggling and allowing for immediate intervention.

Ethics 339

Ethics Essay Syllabus Feedback 339

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

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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Schools Math Testing Intelligence 272

Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Online Quizzes: Provide fun and quick assessments. Digital portfolios allow students to curate their work, promoting self-reflection and ownership of their learning journey while simplifying the grading process for teachers. Class Calendars: Keep students organized and informed. Digital Portfolios: Collect and showcase student work.

Quizzes 158

Quizzes Gamification Communication Intelligence 158

Gaggle Speaks

JULY 14, 2015

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. In fact, a major barrier for students completing various assignments online has been the lack of a digital grading workflow that instructors can adopt.

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Grades Quizzes Instructors Essay 94

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

Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Yet every year I see these same students soar and complete the class with high grades. And how can we teach that poor grades don't indicate failure, but rather that we haven’t found the correct learning strategy? These principles of feedback driven-metacognition and retrieval would take my teaching skills farther than I had imagined.

Teaching 168

Teaching Failure Quizzes Learning 168

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Students are required to complete online chapter quizzes based on the course objectives and textbook for the course within D2L. During the first semester the course was online, and we decided to offer 13 shorter quizzes. During that first semester, all quizzes were due on the same date at the end of semester.

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Quizzes Teaching Learning Feedback 126

Edsurge

JULY 24, 2018

Louis showed dramatic benefits on student achievement —even increasing students’ grades from a C to an A. quizzes, clickers and flashcards), rather than cramming information into students heads (e.g., Kahoot and Quizlet, for example, provide numerous retrieval formats, reminders, shuffle options and instant feedback.

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Science Feedback Gamification Learning 165

Edsurge

JANUARY 8, 2024

A number of instructors in the math department at San Diego Mesa College, where she's a professor, had started exploring how to weave standards-based grading — an approach that evaluates students on how effectively they have mastered content — into the way they teach calculus.

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Math Quizzes Instructors Students 172