Self Grading Form

For this activity - and in honor of the 150th anniversary  - I created a short quiz about the of the Battle of Gettysburg. If you'd like to take my quiz, please click here. Of course, the whole point of this activity was to learn how to create a self grading form. When someone completes my quiz, their answers are collected in a spreadsheet that will automatically grade their answers. To view my spreadsheet, click here.

I thought this was a pretty easy assignment. For future reference, I've embedded a very helpful instructional video below. The only thing that tripped me up in completing this assignment was that I forgot to enter the "=" when creating my grading formulas. At first, I thought I was experiencing some sort of Mac compatibility issue. After about ten minutes of struggling, I took a break. When I came back, I watched the instructional video again and caught my mistake. Lesson learned. Here's the instructional video I mentioned above:



I can definitely imagine using a self grading form in the classroom. It's obviously a great way to create and store a quiz. The data collection and self grading aspects are bonuses. Generating a quiz in this online format would not take any more time then generating a quiz in Word - in fact, given all the automatic formatting features included in Google Forms, this is probably faster. It's a great tool for the future.

Relationship to Standards - the Self Grading Form activity relates well to the following standards: 2(a) in that the use of the self grading form will allow me to design relevant learning experiences that incorporate digital tools and resources; 2(d) in that the use of a self grading form will allow me to provide students with multiple and varied formative and summative assessments aligned with content and technology standards and use the resulting data to inform learning and teaching - I can create as many short quizzes as I see fit and get nearly instantaneous feedback on learning; and 3(a) in that the use of technologies like the self grading form demonstrate fluency in technology systems and the current transfer of knowledge to new technologies and situations.