Happy Almost End of the School Year, ya'll! Today's Digital Tool Tidbit is on Google Forms. I know everyone is in final countdown mode, but Google Forms will be updating soon to include some really cool changes that can help you for next year. This article released by Google earlier this month details the changes coming. Here is a brief outline of what you'll see: 1.-2. Quiz Answer Suggestions / Autocomplete Answers: Using machine learning, Forms will now suggest answers for questions that you type in. If you're like me, you hate figuring out distractors for your questions. This will help you out a ton on that front! 3. Answer Key for checkbox and multiple choice grid questions: I've had several teachers ask me about this feature, so I am stoked it's coming! Forms will now auto-grade these types of questions. 4. Give partial credit in decimal form: This is a manual grading feature, but you'll be able to assign half or quarter credit to questions if a student only misses part of an answer. 5. Improved feedback: I honestly didn't know this feature even existed. When looking at your Responses tab, there is an Add Feedback feature that has been there for a while. If you click it, you can add a link or a YouTube video for students to use as a reteaching or extension tool. You can include text as well. The YouTube feature is what's new! 6. See your total points while creating a quiz: As you add questions and assign point values to those questions, Forms will tally the total number of points at the top of the page. Hopefully you see something on this list that will help improve your instruction and efficiency. Gotta love it when Google is responsive to teacher requests! Shout out to Mr. Heilman for passing on the info! Forms icon above from Wikimedia Commons.
Sharma, Akshat. (2018, May 10). 6 ways Quizzes in Google Forms are getting smarter. Retrieved from https://www.blog.google/topics/education/6-ways-quizzes-google-forms-are-getting-smarter/
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Today's post is on Google Drive File Stream. This tool is for PCs (Windows computers) and not for Chromebooks. In a nutshell, File Stream allows you to access your Google Drive from your desktop. Now, where this comes in really handy is in cleaning up your desktop. The default in our district is to have downloads go straight to the desktop. Download a photo? It's on the desktop! Download a PDF? It's on the desktop! It makes it really easy to find things at first, but the files add up quickly and what you're left with can be disorganized chaos. Plus, at the end of the year (or if your computer crashes at any point), those files get wiped from your device. They aren't backed up anywhere automatically. Google File Stream is a great solution for managing the chaos. Watch the video below for a step-by-step tutorial on how to utilize File Stream on your PC. [Update 2019: The site in which you download File Stream looks a little different now than the video directions below. If you see an Uninstall option, scroll down until you see "Download & install Drive File Stream". This will prompt you to download and you can follow the rest of the video!] Even if you don't end up using File Stream, make sure you back up the files that are on your desktop somehow. YOU WILL USE THEM ALL THIS SUMMER!! |
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