MTEA Presents: Creating Self-Grading Tests & Quizzes Using

Google FormsPresented by: Meredith Martinmmartin@mantuaschools.com

Sign in to your email, and click on DOCUMENTS at the top.

Click the red CREATE button and select FORM.

First, give your form a title, and a description/instructions if you wish.

Uncheck 'Require Mantua Township Schools Sign-In' since the student accounts are on a different server.

Google gives you 2 sample questions to begin with. You can select the type of question on the menu.

You can also edit, duplicate, or remove a question.

EDIT DUPLICATE REMOVE

The ADD ITEM button at the top lets you create more questions.

The following are the different types of questions you can create.

Question Types

Text allows for a short text answer. You will probably want to make all your questions required!

A sample Text question.

Paragraph text allows for longer text answers.

Sample Paragraph Text question.

Multiple Choice allows you to have students select one from a list of choices.

Sample Mutliple Choice question.

Checkboxes allow for multiple answers.

Sample Checkbox question.

Choose From A List creates a dropdown list of choices.

Sample Choose From A List question.

Scale questions let you create a scaled answer. You can go all the way up to 10.

Sample Scale question.

Grid questions allow you to create multiple questions with a grid of choices.

Sample Grid question.

When your form is complete, you can choose a theme!

Themes are a little wonky here at school. They work in some browsers but not in others. If you want a theme but get an error message, try opening Themes in another browser such as IE or Chrome.

Some theme choices.

Theme preview. Don't forget to click APPLY to choose your theme.

Under MORE ACTIONS you can edit the message displayed when students finish the quiz.

Create any message you like, and you can choose to show them a summary of results when they finish.

At the bottom of your editing menu is the link to your live form.

This will take you to your form, and the address at the top is the one to share with your students.

When you open your form from your Documents list, it opens in spreadsheet view.

On the FORM menu, you can choose to edit form, view live form, see the summary, turn form on or off, and more.

Make changes to your form.

Email your form to someone.

View the live form.

Get the code to embed your form in a website.

View graphs of your results.

Turn form on or off.

To make your quiz self-grading, go to TOOLS and select SCRIPT GALLERY.

On the Gallery, select EDUCATION, and then FLUBAROO.

Install the Flubaroo script.

You will now have FLUBAROO as an option on your menu. You can easily grade, regrade, view report, and more from this menu.

IMPORTANT:Before beginning the Flubaroo script, go to your live form and complete it with the correct answers. This will become the template for grading.

When you choose to grade, Flubaroo will walk you through it. First, select grading options.

Next, select the submission you want to be your answer key.

Flubaroo will then begin grading.

When grading is complete, you will have a new worksheet called GRADES.

GRADES will give you your results for each students, along with a summary of responses.

Flubaroo will also highlight any consistently low scoring questions for you.

• You may need to install and run Flubaroo again if you get more responses to your quiz.• For help with Flubaroo, go to: http://www.flubaroo.com/• For more uses and resources for Google Forms, go to:

http://www.livebinders.com/play/play/116971• If you need help, see me!

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