This year I started using Google Docs Forms to give online homework assignments and will (hopefully be giving online quizzes with it soon too!).I really love it because it's so easy to create assignments and share with others. I even figured out to to create a formula that would automatically grade the assignments for me (the number one things I was looking for). The things I didn't like was that there wasn't an easy way to share the results with the kids and to have to the kids see their results as compared to the correct answers. Then I was reading one of my favorite tech blogs, Free Technology for Teachers, and he wrote an post about Flubaroo. I tried it out and it was awesome! so I had to share it with all of you.
Not only does it automatically create the formulas for you to grade the assignments, it puts the answers in a second spreadsheet so you don't mess up the original. In addition it will e-mail the students their grade and there is an option to also include the test questions, with their answers and the correct answers.
Of course there are more robust online assignment programs out there, but not all of them are free like Google Docs is. I recommend everyone give it a try if only to get the students used to online assignments (as many state and national tests are moving in that direction).
Have you tried Google Docs for online assignments? What do you think?
Do you have something else that you love?
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