Last Friday, I discussed spiral reviews. I looked at what they were, what the best ways of including spiral reviews into daily instruction. This time, I'm going to look at providing digital versions of spiral reviews because many of us use platforms such as google classroom and it's easy to incorporate problems so students get to practice what they've learned.
Before you begin creating a digital spiral review, you need to determine which problems you should be using. Look at the problems carefully to see which ones have students practicing a specific skill.
Types of problems chosen for the spiral reviews can be problems students would have done in class or as part of the homework assignment. It might be a new problem done in the same style they've seen before or slightly rearranged such as instead of x + 2 = 7, it is written as 7 = x + 2 or even 2 + x = 7. This way they get used to seeing problems in multiple formats.
One way to create a digital spiral review is to use google forms because you can set it up so students receive immediate feedback on their answers if one uses multiple choice questions. If you choose a short answer question, it will not provide the immediate feedback. In addition, google forms will provide the teacher with data to see what they know or don't know.
Google forms is quite easy to set up. Begin by bringing up forms and hit the create a new from + button.
When you see the first question, it will be an unlabeled form. Just double click on the words "Untitled Form" and come up with a title. It might be review, or exit ticket but put something on it to identify it with more detail such as the date.
It always shows a place for the first question. Multiple choice is a good one for this type of review because students know at least one answer is correct and they can use that to help them look at their answer to compare it with all the possibilities.
Then you type the question into the spot that says Untitled questions. For this I made sure type of question next to it was labeled multiple choice.
In the spot that says option 1, I wrote one answer. then I clicked on add option so I could type in another answer. I continue until I have all the answers. If you need a picture, you can click on the photo icon to the right and use that to install a illustration.
In order to set the questions so you can identify the correct answer, you need to go to settings and click on Make this a quiz. This allows you to identify the answer by clicking on the blue words answer key that appears in the lower left corner of each question.
When you click on answer key, you click on the correct answer so that it allows you to place a check mark on correct answer. You do this for every question on the quiz.
When you have the proper answer identified, you click on the done button and move on to the next question. When students finish the quiz, they submit it and they get an immediate feedback telling them what they got right and which ones they missed.
If you go back on the settings page, you can collect e-mail addresses so you can provide your own feedback.
In the middle tab, you can look at all the student responses so you can see how they did. You can see responses by question, by individual, or an overall summary that can be downloaded.
Although this can be done in something like Google slides, I usually use Google Forms but Google slides does allow students to show their work. It all depends on what you are after. On the other hand, if you choose the short answer question, you can have students show their work step by step or explain their thoughts.
Hope this is enough to get you started. Let me know what you think, I'd love to hear. Have a great day.
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