Roxi Thompson

Google Forms are a great tool for collecting responses from students. If you are using Google Classroom, it is super easy to add a Google Form for your students to access. However, there are some things about Google Forms that make them a little different from other assignments, such as Google Slide or Doc assignments. Here are four tips for using Google Forms with Classroom: Find Form Responses You can only access student responses from the Google Form itself. You cannot see individual student responses from within Google Classroom like you can when you assign Slides or Docs. You can see student responses by clicking on the edit button (the pencil icon in the bottom right corner) and then selecting the "Responses" tab at the top of the form. There are several ways you can organize the responses from this view. You can also create a spreadsheet and view the responses from that sheet.  Include a "Name Question" Always, always, always add a question that prompts stude...

Our teachers officially start next week! We will be rolling out the digital lessons and resources that our teacher teams have been working hard to create for the past month, and all of our teachers will be learning how to use Google Classroom to organize resources and assign learning materials for their students.  While some of our teachers are comfortable using Google Classroom with their students, many of our teachers have little to no experience using it. This got me thinking about some of the most common questions I get and things that confuse teachers about creating and posting assignments in Google Classroom.  So, here are five tips for posting assignments in Google Classroom: #1 - Making a copy for each student One of the options you have when creating an assignment is to add files and change the setting to "Make a copy for each student." Students will get their own copy with their name added to the title of the file.  One thing that sometimes confuses people is th...