You can use ClassTools’ Keyword Checker to scan student essays for key words. With a simple copy/paste of a student essay and a list of vocabulary/key words, you can run the check to get a table that details which words were used and unused in the essay. This tool could be used by teachers or even students too to check for assigned vocabulary words in writing assignments.
Flubaroo for Google Sheets can save you a lot of time with grading. Teachers can create quizzes or assignments in Google Forms and then run this add-on in the correspondong response sheet to make it self-grading. Each form submission will be graded via a teacher-created answer key and data will be disaggregated on the response sheet. There is even an option to email the results to the student. The Super Quiz add-on will also automatically grade your Google Form assignments and quizzes but it will also allow you to send feedback to the student. Student data will always be saved right in your Drive if you set up your assignments this way. You can get these add-ons from any Google Sheet by accessing the “Add-ons” menu. The steps for using Flubaroo and Super Quiz will appear when you run the add-on but please feel free to contact me if you need any help!
As we all know, one of the Common Core ELA shifts is to build knowledge through content-rich nonfiction text. Newsela is an innovative way to build reading comprehension with nonfiction that's always relevant- daily news. The articles on Newsela allow you to differentiate to different Lexile levels, with a minimum of a 440L and maximum of 1210L on most articles. Even if you are not an ELA teacher, please take a look at their website. There are articles in science, social studies, arts, technology, and other categories that could possibly align with your content. These articles could stem discussions and debates, prompt writing assignments and projects, or you could just use them to teach students close reading skills. Check out their website at https://newsela.com/ and use the Quick Start Guide to get started today.
It is important to make sure that you actually “end the meeting” when your virtual class is over. If you just close your tab or browser, without actually ended the meeting, then the session remains open. When a session remains open, it continues to send and receive data which can cause technical issues after a long period of time. Latency issues, sometimes permanent and irreparable, can and will happen to rooms left "open.” Not to mention, if your meeting is not ended then students can still enter the meeting and possible use an open pod. It is best practice to go to Meeting > End Meeting when class has concluded. You can even enter in a custom message for students to see when you end the meeting.
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