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Strategy 7: Check for Understanding
Strategy 7: Check for Understanding
Measure student success on learning with existing and simple assessment tools. These tools can support quick formative assessment or larger scale tests.
Measure student success on learning with existing and simple assessment tools. These tools can support quick formative assessment or larger scale tests.
Keep in mind that small frequent checks for understanding are essential during online or distance learning and that formative assessment does not need to lead to a grade.*
Keep in mind that small frequent checks for understanding are essential during online or distance learning and that formative assessment does not need to lead to a grade.*
*Consider the differences between Checking for Understanding and Grading. If students are learning from home, look to your principal for guidance on providing grades on assignments that can reasonably be completed at home. Also consider adaptations for assignments a student might struggle with on their own at home.
Canvas:
Canvas:
Assignments, Discussions, and Quizzes can all provide teachers with quick insight into student understanding. As you create these elements, place them in your Modules in Canvas so students can see a clear connection between student learning and assessment.
Assignments, Discussions, and Quizzes can all provide teachers with quick insight into student understanding. As you create these elements, place them in your Modules in Canvas so students can see a clear connection between student learning and assessment.
Assignments: Use Assignments to have student submit writing, documents, presentations, or short text submissions. Grade these in the Canvas Speedgrader and provide feedback to students.
Discussions: Discussions allow students to respond to questions and prompts and can reply to each other.
Quizzes: Quizzes are built in to Canvas and allow for traditional quizzes and assessments. Classic Canvas Quizzes work well and New Canvas Quizzes have a more modern feel.
Google Classroom:
Google Classroom:
Assignments, Questions, and linked Forms in Google Classroom can all provide formative assessment. In Google Classroom, you have the option to create questions and share that with students. You can make this collaborative, or just have the answers viewable for you the teacher.
Assignments, Questions, and linked Forms in Google Classroom can all provide formative assessment. In Google Classroom, you have the option to create questions and share that with students. You can make this collaborative, or just have the answers viewable for you the teacher.
Assignments: Use assignments in Classroom to have student submit writing, documents, or presentations. Teacher can grade these right in Classroom and provide feedback to students.
Questions: Questions in Classroom provide discussion-like opportunities for students to respond to questions and prompts and can reply to each other.
Google Forms:
Google Forms:
Google Forms is a survey and quiz tool that is very easy to use. These Forms can be easily shared in Canvas or Google Classroom. You can feed your Form or quiz data into a Google Sheet for analysis and evaluation. With Google Forms, you can:
Google Forms is a survey and quiz tool that is very easy to use. These Forms can be easily shared in Canvas or Google Classroom. You can feed your Form or quiz data into a Google Sheet for analysis and evaluation. With Google Forms, you can:
Create surveys or quizzes with multiple question formats
Choose a premade template (exit tickets, surveys, etc.)
Autograde quizzes and provide feedback
View responses in a Google Sheet
Nearpod:
Nearpod:
Nearpod is an interactive presentation tool for teachers to engage students with interactive lessons. Nearpod also allows for embedded formative assessment right during the presentation process.
Nearpod is an interactive presentation tool for teachers to engage students with interactive lessons. Nearpod also allows for embedded formative assessment right during the presentation process.
Live or student-paced lessons with embedded SEL templates
Embedded collaboration and discussion prompts
Collect formative assessment data
Evaluate student responses live and with post-session reports
Flipgrid:
Flipgrid:
Flipgrid is a video discussion platform, that allows students to respond to questions, topics, and reflect using video. Students can also respond to each other, leave comments, and more.
Flipgrid is a video discussion platform, that allows students to respond to questions, topics, and reflect using video. Students can also respond to each other, leave comments, and more.
Assignments: Topics are discussions where students can respond to each others video post, reflect on content, or answer a prompt.
Students can use Flipgrid to explain their thinking or describe their work with options like screenshering.
Provide feedback, feature responses, and start a new discussion from a student's response to boost student ownership.
Check out The Educator's Guide to Flipgrid for more ideas.
See Strategy 5 for more details about getting started with Flipgrid.
See Strategy 5 for more details about getting started with Flipgrid.
Edulastic:
Edulastic:
Edulastic is our official formative assessment tool. Identify gaps, help students learn, and measure growth all in one easy system.
Edulastic is our official formative assessment tool. Identify gaps, help students learn, and measure growth all in one easy system.
Edulastic is a powerful formative assessment software that can be integrated into daily instruction.
Assess: Quickly identify learning gaps with diagnostic and formative assessments.
Instruct: Provide students differentiated assignments to remediate, reinforce, or challenge.
Measure: Monitor progress towards standards mastery to ensure students stay on track.
Check out our Getting Started Tutorial.
Check out our Getting Started Tutorial.
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