Quick Key Turns Your iPhone Into a Scanner

Quick Key is a new and free iOS app that turns your iPhone into a bubble sheet scanner. Thanks to Richard Byrne at iPad Apps for School for posting about this app!

Quick Key has two parts to it that when combined make it very easy for you to quickly grade multiple choice and true/false quizzes. Here’s the basics of how it works; create your quiz on the Quick Key website then print and distribute a bubble sheet. After your students have completed the bubble sheet you simply scan the sheets with your iPhone (it works on iPads too, but the resolution is grainy) and the grading is done for you. From the app you can send grades to the classes that you have created on the Quick Key website. If you enter students’ email addresses in your class rosters on Quick Key, you can have grades emailed to students.

I can see this being used to grade homework, bell ringers or exit slips in a secondary classroom! Check it out in action in this YouTube video:

Easy Grading with Flubaroo

Flubaroo is a free tool designed by a classroom teacher that helps you quickly grade multiple-choice or fill-in-the-blank assignments using Google Forms. More than just a grading tool, Flubaroo also computes average assignment scores, average score per question, and flags low-scoring questions. It can even show you a grade distribution graph. You can email the students their grades and, if you want, an answer key. Flubaroo will also allow you to send individualized feedback to each student.

You can use your CISD Gmail account to use Flubaroo. Detailed steps for getting started with Flubaroo are provided here. A user's guide with more information is also available.

Socrative

Apple trainer, Kevin Shepperd, introduced us to Socrative during a workshop on Challenge Based Learning. Socrative is a FREE student response system that enables teachers to engage their classrooms through a series of educational exercises and games. The best part is that this is not just an app for iOS, Socrative can be accessed through smartphones, laptops, and tablets.

How it works:
Teachers login through their device and select an activity which controls the flow of questions and games. Students simply login with their device and interact real time with the content.

Student responses are visually represented for multiple choice, true/false and Short Answer questions. For pre-planned activities a teacher can view reports online as a Google spreadsheet or as an emailed Excel file.