A space to share best practices with established and emerging instructional technologies, rate different tech tools that are available, and highlight some of the great things happening in all of our component school districts. We will also provide resources for you to improve your skills with technology.
One of our biggest complaints about using Plickers in different core areas was the fact that you could not include images: an important feature to engaging our students.
Well, Plickers heard us loud and clear and have added this new feature to their program. We are very excited about this update, and hope you find this to be a more useful tool when building it into your classrooms!
CheckItOut is an Add-On for Google Forms that can be used for checking in and out items within your classroom, a library, sports equipment, and more.
CheckItOut creates one or more question sets. The first question is used to log the items that are IN, and the other is for items that are already checked OUT. Each time someone fills out the form, the selected items are moved between the two questions. This allows a for a very easy check in/out form, and allows you to keep track of what devices and items are being used, and by whom. Alternate questions can be added to a question set so that you can capture any information that you would like from the Google Form. CheckItOut questions can be in the form of Multiple-Choice, List, or Checkboxes.
If you don't let anyone check things out of your room, or leave your control, then perhaps you would also like one of the other new Add-Ons for Google Forms.
Form Publisher is a useful tool that generates documents from the Form responses. It takes an existing template (a Google doc or spreadsheet), makes a copy of it and replace markers by answers from the form submission. This site has a full explanation of how to use markers while using the Form Publisher Add-On.
Both of these Add-Ons provide incredible functionality and open up a whole new world of opportunities for using Google Forms.
