Formative Assessments

This week I played around with Quizizz in all of my classes and my students loved it.  They mainly just liked the memes, but I mean come on, who doesn't like to get a congratulatory meme after getting a question right??

My favorite part about Quizizz is how I could track my students progress and go over mistakes with them before they retook it.  I will be using this many more times this year as a formative assessment tool and as a review for tests since I can upload my own test questions onto my own Quizizz.

Just when I thought I had found all the formative assessment tools out there, in comes Flippity.  Last week I presented EquatIO to the class in the Slides assignment and the combination of this in my Google Sheets and Flippity is going to make quick formative assessments a breeze.  I had a few issues at first though, and I want to share the steps to fix it with anyone interested in using it.  So for starters, you need to download EquatIO so go do that now.  Next, you'll also need Flippity so just download that too while you're at it.  Now it's time to open a Google Sheet and turn it into a Flippity document by choosing a template.  For now just go with the flashcard template.
Now my problem was that if I entered an equation using EquatIO, it wouldn't show up on my flashcards.  So on my Google Sheet, I had what is pictured below, but my cards would be blank.
So after a little digging, I came across this Twitter post (thank you Twitter!)

 Basically, you just need to turn your EquatIO entry into an image and Flippity will read it just fine!  If you're still a little confused of what to do after the Twitter post, here are a couple screenshots on how I used Find and Replace to fix my problems.  Make sure you have the "Also search within formulas" box checked!

After you do that, you're set!  Just publish your Sheet to the web and then share your Flippity link.  Here is one I made this week I'll use in my Algebra class! 
http://www.flippity.net/fc.asp?k=1cTXqh0WPPzoJ2FN3xWpv2Ml_lpfcSnFPssxrjX913ts

I learned a lot more this week but playing around with Flippity was my most time consuming venture.  However, I do want to share the Adobe Spark page I made listing some of my favorite teaching sites that make my life easier on a daily basis.  Enjoy!



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