As you know, in August I returned to the classroom full time. Not as a teacher, but as a student. That experience has reinforced my belief that quick feedback is one of the most important things you can give students. On that note, this week I have some technical tips that can help you quickly provide feedback to your students.
Faster Essay Feedback
When I taught social studies, grading my students' essays was always the second most time-consuming task I had to do. The most time-consuming task was providing feedback on the drafts. I wish the tools available now were available when I spent an entire weekend reading a hundred high school students' essays on the Bill of Rights.
gotLearning ai-tools” target=”_blank” rel=”noreferrer noopener”>I have comments The tool uses ai to help you quickly analyze and provide feedback on your students' essay assignments. Depending on the version of gotFeedback you use, you can use it on PDF files, Word documents, and Google Docs. You can see gotFeedback demos. here and here.
If you don't want to add yet another tool to your feedback workflow, consider making better use of the tools you already have available. If you work at a school that uses Google Workspace, Google Classroom and Google Keep have features that can help you submit feedback faster. In Google Classroom you can create a comment bank to use when grading. In Google Docs you can use Google Keep as a comment bank to submit comments. Here is a tutorial about using Google Keep as a comment bank. Here is a video on the Google Classroom comment bank.
For those of you who use Word as your primary document tool, you may want to give Electronic comments a try. With e-Comments you can add predefined text, audio, and video comments to your students' essays. Take a watch this demo to see how e-Comments works.
Multiple Choice Comments
Google Forms, Microsoft Forms, and almost all “quiz game” platforms like Kahoot make it easy to quickly provide students with a raw score of how many questions they answered correctly. And most of those platforms also allow you to show students which answers were right and wrong. That feedback alone can be valuable. What is even more valuable is feedback that includes an explanation of why an answer choice was correct or not.
In Google Forms and Microsoft Forms, you can provide students with video explanations of correct and incorrect answer options. Look at this video to learn how to include video comments in Microsoft Forms. Look at this video to see how you can submit comments in Google Forms.
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