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How To Use Google Forms To Create Your Own Self-Grading Quiz. Are you a teacher or trainer? Someone involved in a hiring process? Do you need to check somehow that other people have the skills or knowledge that you expect them to? Well, you’re going to love what you can do using Google Forms. You can create a self-grading test for whatever your purposes are. Google Forms are amazing tools, allowing you to do some really advanced tricks with forms as the front-end and spreadsheets at the heart. Create A Self-Grading Quiz Creating a form in Google Forms is very self-explanatory: you open Google Docs, create a new form and get typing (or read this if you want a general guide to using Google Forms).

For this example, we have used one form question to ask for the person’s name and written out 5 spelling test “fill in the blank” questions. You will need to click on “Choose Response Destination” and tell the form to put responses into a spreadsheet. Here’s my IF statement. =IF('Form Responses'! This means that if the cells don’t match, the score is 0. Jack Hidary: The Revolution: Top Ten Disruptors of Education. New online learning models are bursting from startups and top universities, bridging the educational divide. We are in the midst of a revolution that will bring high-quality education to hundreds of millions of people who have never had access to this level of learning before.

These tools will reach those in developing cities and countries but also foment a revolution in the U.S. classroom as they change our perception of what learning can be. Here are the leading new platfoms disupting the education world: 1. Sebastian Thurn and his colleagues hit on wild success with their Stanford computer science courses when they opened them up to the online public.The team has left Stanford to start Udacity with venture backing and a new slate of courses. CNN highlights Udacity's new model. 2. Daphne Koller and Andrew Ng founded Coursera to bring high-quality university courses to the masses. 3. MIT has been a pioneer in online education with its Open Courseware (OCW) program. 4. iTunes U 5. 6. 2Tor 7. Balancing Dilemmas in Assessment and Learning in Contemporary Education - Anton Havnes, Liz McDowell.

Approaches to assessment and feedback that foster independent learning, Deakin University. Resources Centre - learning and teaching resources from the Higher Education Academy.