Honey I Deleted a Post in Google Classroom!!

Hi Everyone!!

A few hours ago a friend messaged me asking how she could restore an Assignment Post which she deleted by mistake! Has it happened to you too?

I promised to look into it. 

And this video is the result of this investigation. 

However, do note that though you can view deleted posts, they cannot be restored. 

That being said, in case the post you deleted was older and your students had submitted their work, then their attachments can all be found in the Classroom Folder in your Drive!! Thank Goodness!!

Why don't you request this feature? If enough of us do so, then Google will give us this update. 

Te(a)ch Smart!!

New Updates in Google Forms October 2019

Hi All! 

About 10 days ago, I opened a new Google Form for a registration form that I was setting up for the parents of the students I teach, and I got a nice surprise!


What was it? Google Forms with a NEW LOOK!                                 

This update is in keeping with the changes that Google has been making to the visual layout and design of all its GSuite products. 

This is a gradual roll out. So my GSuite for Education account is reflecting this change, but not in my personal account yet. But it will happen soon!


Let us take a quick look! 

                                                          

Old Forms: 

Broad Banner. Could be set to have an image preset within the application or personalised image could be uploaded. Themes could be set as well. Basic variety of fonts available.



New Forms: 

Look has changes radically. Though we can still select a banner image, themes and fonts as earlier.




                                                                  

Old Forms: Respondent View







New Forms: 

Banner image is separated from the main body of the Form. Each element now, banner, title and description and each question now is housed in its own rectangle (if that makes any sense).





                                                          



Old Forms: Responses Tab

New Forms: Layout has changed!




The changes as you can see are largely cosmetic. The Layout now is cleaner and in line with the changes that we have seen in most other GSuite products in recent months.

                                                  

As of now I am happy with these visual changes. But here is my wishlist from Google Forms:

1. There should be autosave when I am filling the form, so that if I am interrupted, I can come back to it a a later time and complete the rest of it, without having to start all over again.
2. Get an option for assigning a time limit on each question.
3. Have a way of setting up play-offs to make things exciting in class.
4. Have Version History, so I can check the changes or restore an earlier version. This is especially important when you have collaborators working with you on the same Form.   

I know Quizziz and Kahoot fulfil numbers 2 and 3, but I would like to see them in Google Forms too!

Have you seen the New Look Google Forms in your GSuite account yet? What are your thoughts?

Do let me know in the comments!

Until next time.....

Teach SMART!
   
             Sanchita Ghosh

Google Forms: Import Questions Feature

Hi Everyone!

Its been rolled out a couple of months ago. Have you noticed it? I know many of you have. It is the Import Questions feature in Google Forms!

I use Google Forms.... A LOTTT!! And I often need to use questions that I have already made in previous forms. I had to retype or copy-paste the questions and options (in MCQ or Checkbox type) every time. It was tedious and annoying.

But now with the new IMPORT function within Google Forms, I can save a TON of time! 

The process could not be easier!

1. Select the 2nd Option from the Floating Menu on the Right side of your screen.

2. Choose Which Form

3. Checkbox the Questions

                      

Review

This new update is very useful if you want to pull in a few questions from a previous form, perhaps those where the students had not fared well. Or you simply want them to revisit those questions as they advance on to new topics.

Question Bank

This is my favourite! I create Master Forms for each Unit, where I keep adding questions as they come to me. Earlier, I had to laboriously copy-paste from the Master Form to the Form I administered to my students. Now all I have to do is check all the questions I want from the Master Form in one go! Don't share the the Master Form, but make multiple Forms in different permutations and combinations for your students!

Add your colleagues as collaborators to your Master Form and expand your Question Bank!

Be a SMART Educator

Google Forms and CBSE's Objective Type Questions.

Hello Fellow Educators!

In the recent months Central Board of Secondary Education, India's premier school education board and assessment authority has brought about some fundamental changes in the design of the Class 10 and 12 Board Exam question paper for all subjects. The biggest of them is 20 marks worth of objective type questions. It is a given that Classes 9 and 11 will follow the same pattern as we try to acclimatise our students to these new assessment methods.

Today the CBSE released the sample papers for Classes 10 and 12 for all subjects. Find the links below:

1. Class 10 Sample Question Papers and Marking Scheme
2. Class 12 Sample Question Papers and Marking Scheme

So how are you planning to provide this practice for your students? 

I know many of you are making worksheets and administering them to your students either as homework or in the classroom. Once you have collected the work from the students, you need to correct the Objective Question Worksheets. 

How long does it take you to go through all the students' worksheets and give them feedback? A minute per worksheet? So 30/40/50 minutes? 

That's just busy work. You are doing mindless, repetitive work. Writing the similar feedback again and again and again. Just take a step back and think how this monotonous and tedious work is adding value to your students' learning or your creativity and most importantly is it giving you the time and scope to enrich and deepen your relationship with your students?

Most likely not. So what do you do? What if you could automate the grading and standard feedback process? 

Work smart, not hard....

Google Forms is your answer. If you set it up as a Quiz, you can...........

1. Different types of questions:

2. You can preset the Answer Key

3. You can add feedback based on the answers of the students

Once you set up your form, you can reuse this with multiple sections, across academic sessions, updating as required. Once ready, the students can get instant feedback, within seconds of submitting their work. 

This timely feedback is always more relevant than feedback given the next day or the next week!

Use you saved time to plan and execute more creative and effective teaching-learning strategies in class!

Be a SMART Educator!

Sanchita Ghosh