You may notice that Digital Tool Tuesday is now Digital Tool Tidbits. As the year has progressed I've gotten busier and busier (which is AWESOME!), and I grew a bit tired of having to rush posts in order to get them posted on a Tuesday. Also, I am hoping to blog more about a variety of things in general; hence the name change! Today's digital tool is a Google Docs Add-on called Kaizena. Kaizena has been around for a while, and I had heard about at some point and obviously signed up for it because I get their emails, but I had never actually used it. Anyhoo, Kaizena just recently fully integrated with Google as a Docs Add-on, and it is an excellent way to provide effective feedback to students (hello again, Classroom Instruction that Works). One method of feedback that Kaizena allows you to provide is comments, much like Google Docs already does, but you can color-code your comments for easier identification. But the best feedback you can provide with Kaizena are the things that Docs doesn't already have. You can do voice comments, add a lesson, and track a skill. To begin with, the Voice Message option is pretty awesome. Personally, if I can talk out my feedback to a student rather than have to type it or write it, I know I am going to leave much better feedback. Kaizena makes it easy to do that.
The Skills option allows you to put rubric items within your comments. Each skill is like an item on a rubric. You can set the different levels and then grade student work based on the levels. For example, if you put grammar as a skill (as seen above) you can give a student a rating for how well they did on grammar. Want to get started using Kaizena? Click here to install the Google Docs Add-on (students will need the Add-on as well, but it can be pushed out from your tech. administrator). Then, this help page from Kaizena's website provides you with a ton of useful information to help you as the teacher get started, and this one is great for students when they are ready to review their feedback!
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