Since October, I’ve been putting on monthly Lunch & Learn PD sessions for teachers. December was dedicated to tests and quizzes in Schoology (our new school-wide LMS).
As usual, I shared the results of the pre-survey I send out to teachers a week before each session. I use these surveys to see what teachers are already doing with the tool(s) we’ll be discussing at the Lunch & Learn and what they want to learn. I share the results for three reasons. First, I want teachers to see why I’ve chosen to cover certain areas of the tools (based on their responses). Secondly, I want teachers to see I am taking their input into consideration, so they will know I value their time and opinion. Lastly, I want them to know where they stack up compared to their colleagues, and see that they are not alone if they aren’t a technology wiz.
Before we began learning anything, I had the teachers take a “pop-quiz.” This six question quiz included one of each of the six question types you can add to a Schoology test/quiz (multiple choice, true/false, matching, fill in the blank, ordering and essay). It was truly more informative to highlight the question and answer options. I also wanted them to experience the students’ perspective when taking a test/quiz.
Once they had become familiar with all the test/quiz options, we discussed the possibility of using the “test/quiz” feature for interactive and in-class assignments.
We quickly looked over question banks and how to grade the quizzes (questions that don’t grade themselves), and then they had the rest of the time to start building a quiz (or an assignment). As always, I wish we had a little more time so they could have gotten a full quiz (or assignment) built and saved into a question bank.
To check out my Prezi presentation for the Lunch and Learn, click here. To read about October’s Schoology assignments and discussion boards L&L session click here; and to read about November’s collaboration in the classroom L&L session, click here.
How do you use your LMS’ test/quiz feature as interactive assignments? What do you think of online quizzes?
Tech To You Later!
Katie
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