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Preparing Students for Online Assessments with Digital Literacy Skills

edWeb.net

Online assessments are becoming more common, and students who have strong digital literacy skills often score higher on them. Students who lack these skills may not be able to effectively demonstrate mastery of key concepts in math, reading or writing on online assessments.

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Assessing Students Over Time and Also Saving Teachers’ Time

edWeb.net

Now educators can make their instruction more effective and provide practice linked directly to progress monitoring and formative assessment results using free digital tools from Microsoft. The creation of assessments and their implementation can all be integrated through the use of Microsoft Teams.

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100+ Great Google Classroom Resources for Educators

The CoolCatTeacher

Assessment. Online Assessment with Google Forms – this document gives walk throughs for Flubaroo and other tools to help you assess using Google Forms. Flubaroo – help for grading online assessments. 10 Tools for Assessment for Google Apps on the iPad. Google Classroom and GeoGebra.

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How to Prepare Students for PARCC/SBACC Tests

Ask a Tech Teacher

I polled my PLN to find specific tech areas students needed help with in preparing for the Assessments. Pay attention to these and your students will be much more prepared for this Spring’s Common Core assessments: Keyboarding. The Assessments expect students have that sort of stamina. It boils down to five tech areas.

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Surge in Chromebook Adoption Leads to Increasing Need to Keep Students Safe    

Gaggle Speaks

For instance, there’s been a 52% growth in Chromebook usage for students in grades 6-8 and a 100% increase at high schools since 2015. Student access to Chromebooks has increased dramatically in schools nationwide over the past two years. Is Your School Using G Suite for Education?

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Desmos Passes the Smarter Balanced Test (and Hopes to Save Math Students $100)

Edsurge

It’s a reasonable restriction to prevent students from cheating by searching online for solutions. The Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC), which administers standardized tests for 15 U.S. And as assessments increasingly move online, tools that perform basic functions should not require additional purchases, he argues.

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Top Web Links, Tweets & Instagram Posts from 2016

Learning in Hand

It looks like 2016 was the year of online assessment tools. My most popular tweet and post featured 15 formative assessment tools. Check out my top links and posts from 2015 and from 2014 for more awesome tips, tools, ideas, and resources. This means I can easily see the most popular links I shared during 2016.