Providing Meaningful Feedback (without sacrificing your life)

In this session, we will explore strategies and tools for providing students with feedback which is timely, relevant, and personally meaningful. You can even do all of this while reducing the time you spend grading! Participants will come away with methods for using Google Keep and the features of Classroom, Mote, and Screencastify for efficient responses to student work.

Google Keep

  • Comments (or drop into table)

  • Stickers

  • Links to resources

  • Using topics, headers, & more

Google Classroom

  • Rubrics

  • Comment Banks (click copy icon or search by #firstword)

  • Suggesting Mode in Google Docs

  • Grading Tools - plagiarism checker; marking and commenting on images, PDFs, and more

  • Other kinds of comments (voice & video)

Mote

  • free Chrome extension

  • voice commenting features & uses

  • search options with a colon : in comments

  • dictation

Screencastify

  • perfect personalized feedback in a click

  • you decide whether or not to be on camera (grading in your PJs anyone?)

  • make yourself into a mouse pointer

  • students see you respond to their work

  • other screencasting tools work, too