Go paperless. Keep all your assessments in one place. Get immediate insights on student progress. Learn about how you can empower yourself and students by bringing assessments online with Edulastic. Teachers from New Jersey, Tennessee, Arizona, and California will talk about how they use digital assessment in their classroom and how it can benefit you and your teaching goals. Join us and you’ll leave the presentation with ideas and skills you can apply right away!

1. Teacher Talk Webinar Series
Tuesday 7pm ET / 4pm PT
Welcome!
Go Paperless!
Tips & Tricks for Creating
Formative Assessments
Online

2. Housekeeping
● General
● Chat
● Questions
Teacher Talk Webinar Series
Tuesday 7pm ET / 4pm PT
Go Paperless! Tips and Tricks for Creating Formative Assessments Online
Ileana Betancourt
Marketing Manager
Edulastic
Fremont, CA

3. Teacher Talk Webinar Series
Tuesday 7pm ET / 4pm PT
Go Paperless! Tips and Tricks for Creating Formative Assessments Online
Nerissa Gerodias
High School Math Teacher
San Jose, CA
Betty Scola
Librarian & Technology Teacher
Waterford, NJ
Dorian Myers
7th Grade Reading Teacher
Memphis, TN
Steven Humble
7th Grade Science & Algebra
Phoenix, AZ

4. Let’s find out whooo is in the room!

5. Roadmap
● Advantages of Going Paperless
● Best Practices for Digital Assessment
● Examples from Dorian, Steve, Nerissa, and Betty
● Questions

6. Advantages of Paperless
Testing

7. Preparing to Give a Test

8. Grading
Photo courtesy of Bart Everson

9. Turn around time for student feedback

10. Understanding the Answer

11. Benefits of Digital Assessment

12. Easy Access to all Classes and Assessments

13. Test Question Data Bank

14. Multiple Question Formats

15. Data to Identify Areas of Weakness

16. Roadmap
● Advantages of Going Paperless
● Best Practices for Digital Assessment
● Examples from Dorian, Steve, Nerissa, and Betty
● Questions

17. Best Practices

18. “Overall, across all grades and subjects, the average test question count is 10.”

19. Engage Students
● Use TEIs
● Incorporate images or video
● Use multipart to dive deeper
● Pair with hands-on activity

20. Roadmap
● Advantages of Going Paperless
● Best Practices for Digital Assessment
● Examples from Dorian, Steve, Nerissa, and Betty
● Questions

21. Nerissa Gerodias
High School Math Teacher
San Jose, CA
Betty Scola
Librarian & Technology Teacher
Waterford, NJ
Dorian Myers
7th Grade Reading Teacher
Memphis, TN
Steven Humble
7th Grade Science & Algebra
Phoenix, AZ
Digital Assessment in Practice

22. Betty Scola
Librarian & Technology Teacher
Waterford, NJ
Digital Assessment in Practice

23. Our motivation for going
paperless came after we saw
our first year PARCC results.
We knew we needed to start
assessing students digitally so
they were comfortable when
PARCC test time came.

24. Pros:
● Paperless.
● Easy to grade (Flubaroo)
Cons:
● Question types very limited.
● Needed to use add- ons in
order to “print” a copy for
students to review (Autocrat)
Since we were a Google school, our first attempts were Google Forms.

25. A Google Search led us to Edulastic
Pros:
● Many question types
that mimicked
PARCC
● Easy sync with Google
Classroom
● Instant results to
students and
teachers
● No need to “print” a
copy for review
● Sharing across the
district meant we could
split the workload of test
creation.
● Reports make it easy to
identify areas of
weakness.
● Helpful customer service
Cons:
● Still haven’t found one

26. The Plan We Devised-
Use PARCC released questions entered into Edulastic to prep students.
Use Edulastic across our curriculum for paperless tests so students were
comfortable with online testing
Have students instantly review what they did right and wrong not days
later after the test was graded. Their reflection immediately following
the test led them to be better test takers because they really reviewed
the test.

27. The Results -
Confident test
takers!!!!
Happy Teachers!!!!

28. The Numbers

30. Nerissa Gerodias
High School Math Teacher
San Jose, CA
Digital Assessment in Practice

31. Typical evening or weekend for me before
Edulastic On top of this,
- teacher plans for the next lesson
- creates materials
- creates assessments which means
more papers to grade.
….. and it goes on and on and papers keep
piling up.
…. and sometimes papers mysteriously
disappears to the disappointment of both
teacher and students.
…. and teacher realizes that some students need
intervention only after all papers have been
graded.

32. Here comes Edulastic!
All assessments are in one place, never to get lost.

33. When I give assignments, I get to see their progress in real time. I can see who starts
immediately and who procrastinates whether it is an in-class or take home assignment

34. I can screenshot their summary thumbnail and send it to them
to prompt them to go back and check these partially correct
work or the totally incorrect answers. I find that my students
constantly want to know how they are doing and I would not be
able to give immediate feedback if I was grading by hand.

35. Students
stay on task
and are
eager to
get
immediate
feedback.

36. Students collaborate
during classwork. They are
asking questions and they
are explaining to each
other.
As students do their work I
go around with my tablet
and show them which
problems they need to
return to, providing them
immediate intervention.

37. I allow students to redo their work if for
whatever reason they scored low on their
assignments.
Edulastic makes it easy to reassign the tasks
giving students second chances.

38. Sample Correspondence Between Myself and my Students

40. Advantages of digital assessment app such as Edulastic
● No clutter, no mess, no lost papers.
● Immediate feedback provides opportunity to employ
immediate intervention.
● Students can redo their tasks in a few clicks
● Easy to manage missed assignments for absent students

41. Dorian Myers
7th Grade Reading Teacher
Memphis, TN
Digital Assessment in Practice

42. Working with Edulastic in
a Middle School Reading
Classroom
Why I use Edulastic:
1. Immediate Feedback - The ability to adjust instruction.
2. Student Progress - Students are able to track their scores
on a data tracker
3. Data Reports - We have to present data from Common
Assessments to the principal and Edulast offers a great way
to present the data.
4. Standards Mastery - I can keep up with what standards
have been mastered and which ones I need to re-teach.
5. District Testing - Our district uses MAP to track student
progress and it is computer based.

43. Steven Humble
7th Grade Science & Algebra
Phoenix, AZ
Digital Assessment in Practice

44. Questions?
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46. This Week February 21st
Go Paperless!
Digital Assessment

47. Next Week February 28th
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