Formative Assessment
Pear Deck
Grades 2-12
Pear Deck is a Google Slides add-on and web application to help you interact with ALL students simultaneously and in real time to provide feedback on their learning. This can be used in a virtual or physical classroom and encourages all students to be participating in each class. Student responses from Pear Deck are stored in the Pear Deck website and you are able to go back and look at student responses from any Pear Deck session you present. Watch the video below for step-by-step instructions!
Google Slides Presentation
EdPuzzle
Edpuzzle is an easy-to-use platform allowing you to engage every student, one video at a time. EdPuzzle unlocks the power of videos through simple editing tools and dazzling student data. The process is simple - find a video, add questions and assign it to your class. Watch as they progress and hold them accountable on their learning journey.
Quizlet
Quizlet makes simple learning tools that let you study anything. Start learning today with flashcards, games and learning tools — all for free. You can share a flashcard set with students or vice versa. You can add images to flashcards as well. Once a set is created, students can study the set in a variety of ways. Teachers can host Quizlet live games for sets of created flashcards that gamifies the learning process for vocabulary. It's highly competitive and encourages conversations about the meaning of words between students in small groups. See a Quizlet Live game in action, below!
Quizizz
Free gamified quizzes for every subject to play in class and at home. Pick an existing quiz or create your own for review, formative assessment, and more. These can be set to complete in live mode or homework mode. You get full score reports to help with analyzing student learning or could using the score report as a grade if you assign as homework. It is extremely simple to navigate and integrates easily with Google Classroom. Very easy for virtual students to log in and play live with their classmates! Watch a quick tutorial below!
Kahoot
Kahoot! is a game-based learning platform that makes it easy to create, share and play learning games or trivia quizzes in minutes. Unleash the fun in classrooms, offices and living rooms! This is also a great tool for "fun" games to encourage building positive relationships with your students on their best Disney movie knowledge or music of the 2000's. Very easy for virtual students to log in and play live with their classmates!
Edulastic
Edulastic is a free formative assessment tool that has pre-made questions that are already aligned to standards. It offers a variety of question formats to help you prepare students for standardized tests as well as provide you a more comprehensive understanding of where you student is in terms of understanding the the learning objective.
Go Formative!
Go formative allows you to create or use pre-made content related to your learning objective. Students participate in the "quiz-like" format and you get reports to help you make instructional decisions.
Wizer Me
Create interactive worksheets for students that can be directly integrated into your google classroom. The worksheets can contain embedded videos, a variety of question types, and can be linked to standards. You can search through a library of premade worksheets and questions or create your own to share with students. Grading and assessing students is relatively simple and easy-to-use. Watch the brief video below for more information. Below is an example of a worksheet from Wizer. It will ask you to sign up to access the content. Simple link it to your Google account but select "Teacher" so that later you can create your own worksheets!