So it’s pretty common that folks use Google Forms to create an automatically graded assessment. Now, I have to admit, as a mathematics teacher I don’t do a lot of fixed-response assessments like this that need automatic grading. But that…
This follows on the hacking work done with OneNote Class Notebook – including adding a digital portfolio and a private planning area for teachers in the Content section. My amazing colleague Anjuli Ahooja is an active participant with Science On Stage.…
(So I ran into Minnia Feng, the Community Organizer for the Microsoft Expert Educators when I was in Redmond last month and she mentioned I’d taken her “5 item listicles” by the horns. Long story short, I believe than when…
Continuing on the Microsoft Expert Educator suggestion to make 5-tips-articles here’s one on Yammer. Yammer is part of Office365 and is free to schools, faculty and students as part of their free Office365 subscriptions. On first glance, and in general…
So a colleague posted this on a Yammer conversation the other day and I didn’t want to try to post to it without some explanations, for which Yammer did not provide sufficient space. And since Microsoft encouraged us to post…
Microsoft asked if we could put together 5-point tip lists. As it happens, I had started to scribble down some thoughts on a recent snow day (a Rumspringa for teachers) and never got it completed so while I’m on March…
We’ve had almost four years with our OneNote ClassBinder, having rolled it out to every class from 7 to 12, math to languages to phys-ed every year. In the first year we had 85% of classes voluntarily use it —…
So as soon as I posted the previous blog on changing permissions, I was asked how I would create a Digital Portfolio section inside the student’s section; that is, a section that the teacher can add content to but the…
I realized the other day while writing Parts 1 (link) & 2 (link) that I’d never talked about the Private Teacher Section Group in our OneNote Binders… During our first year with the OneNote Binders (our initial design that ended…
So the amazing Marilyn Steier, an educator from Alberta I met while in Barcelona for the Microsoft Global Forum last year, asked a question on Microsoft’s Canada Education Yammer group (Link) about removing students and teachers from the OneNote Class…