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Teaching with Google Classroom - Second Edition

By : Michael Zhang
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Teaching with Google Classroom - Second Edition

By: Michael Zhang

Overview of this book

Google Classroom is designed to help you manage and deliver online and in-person courses in an interactive manner. Using Google Classroom saves time organizing and communicating information to students and parents. This updated second edition of Teaching with Google Classroom covers the modern features of Google Classroom that meet the current needs of online teaching. The book is written from the high-school perspective but is applicable to teachers and educators of all age groups. If you’re new to Google Classroom or an experienced user who wants to explore more advanced methods with Google Classroom, this book is for you. With hands-on tutorials, projects, and self-assessment questions, you’ll learn how to create classes, add students to those classes, send announcements, and assign classwork. The book also demonstrates how to start an online discussion with your students. Later, you’ll discover how you can involve parents by inviting them to receive guardian emails and sharing Google Calendar with a URL. This will help them to view assignment deadlines and other important information. The book goes step by step through all the features available and examples of how best to use them to manage your classroom. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to do more with Google Classroom, managing your online or in-person school classes effectively.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
1
Section 1: Getting Started
4
Section 2: The Basics
8
Section 3: Diving Deeper
13
Section 4: Going Digital

Chapter 7: Creating Multiple Choice and Fill-in-the-blank Quizzes using Google Forms

Now that we have explored using grade-written assignments with a rubric, the Quiz feature of Google Forms will help grade multiple-choice, fill-in-the-blank, and numeric questions. First, you will need to create the assignment and deploy it on Google Classroom. Google Forms' app within Google's Workspace for Education allows you to create online surveys, which you can use as assignments. The results are found within Google Forms or are linked to a Google Sheet.

After using Quiz with Google Forms for assignments, you may decide to also use it for exams. However, while Google Forms provides a means for creating the assessment and Google Classroom allows you to easily distribute it to your students, there are limited tools for maintaining the security of an assessment. Security for Google Forms can only be ensured when students are using Chromebooks enrolled in the school network.

Therefore...