1.
Automated
marking
By James Abela
http://goo.gl/XukjoD

2.
Why Automate?
● Students REMEMBER feedback when
given quickly.
● Only timely marked work can effectively
inform planning of the next lesson
● Saves Teacher time
● Provides hard data
● No formulae knowledge needed
● Ensures all classes cover critical
knowledge
You can mark their work in-lesson or before

3.
When to Automate?
● Large number of
students
● Quick Feedback
● Know gaps
● Can recycle
● Small cohort
● Essay type
questions
● No access to
Internet /
Network

4.
Flubaroo
Tutorial

5.
1. Create Your Form

6.
2. Fill it out
To create the answer key, just fill out the form
yourself. Points to note:
1. You can include name fields etc
2. You can include an email field
3. You do NOT have to auto-mark every
question

7.
3. View their answers

8.
4. Install Flubaroo

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5. Run Flubaroo
Answer if:
● If any questions should not be graded.
● Which questions are for the purpose of
student identification (e.g. name, student
id, email).
● Which submission should be used as the
answer key.

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6. Let it get to work
● It will then check a new tab with all the
answers
● It can also email out a report, results &
feedback
● You will also have a complete set of stats
for the quiz / test to help with future
teaching

11.
Other Alternatives
● Hot Potatoes - Large variety of tasks,
Instant feedback, but can be tricky to
record large quantities of data
● Socrative - Great for testing in-class
knowledge & works very well with a
Google Spreadsheet
● Code it yourself - Any spreadsheet can do
it with a series of IF commands
● Self Marking
● Peer Marking