July 9 Department Meeting: Schoology "Assessment Tasting"

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Today's Essential Question, Objective, and Agenda

Essential Question: How can we leverage the Assessment tool to support student learning?

By the end of this session, you will be able to:

• Explain how Schoology can be used to deliver and manage assessments.
• Practice creating a Schoology assessment.
• Discuss how you can leverage the Schoology assessment tool to support student learning.

Agenda:

1. The Student View: Take a sample assessment on Schoology
2. Introduction: Assessments on Schoology
3. Grading: Review grading analytics from the practice assessment
4. Play Time: Create your own assessment
5. Small Group Discussion: How can we use today's PL to support student learning?
6. Further resources and post-survey

Parking Lot Questions: https://tinyurl.com/yy66x2aw

1. The Student View: Take a Sample Assessment on Schoology

2. Introduction: Assessments on Schoology

• What is the Assessment tool? Where can I find it? What is the difference between the Assessment tool and the Test/Quiz tool? What is the difference between the Assessment tool and the Assessment Management Platform?
• Which types of questions can I ask in the Assessment tool?
  • Multiple Choice
  • True/False
  • Matching
  • Ordering
  • Fill in the Blank Text
  • Fill in the Blank Dropdown
  • Fill in the Blank Drag and Drop
  • Short Answer/Essay
  • Label Image
  • Highlight Hotspot
  • Highlight Image
  • Highlight Text
  • DON'T FORGET TO ADD MATH QUESTIONS

3. Grading: Review grading analytics from the practice assessment

4. Play Time! Create your own assessment!

5. Discussion: How can we use today's PL to support student learning?

Consider:

• Using the assessment tool for a specific unit of instruction
• Which question types will be most useful
• Student engagement
• Connecting assessment and instruction
• Formative versus summative assessment
• Tracking growth through learning standards
• Promotion of student self-assessment and self-reflection
• Multiple points of access (text, visuals, audio)
• Differentiation

Share-Out:

1. One "takeaway" from today's session; or
2. One way you plan to use the assessment tool going forward; or
3. One aspect of the assessment tool you plan to further explore.

6. Resources and Post-Survey

To access all of today's resources on Schoology Assessment in one place, go the Resource Bank page on this website. For a Schoology-made guide to the Assessments tool (including creating an assessment, setting up questions, grading, and reporting), click here. For the full Schoology video library, click here. To take today's post-survey, click here or below. To access the paper handouts from today's session, click here.