This will be quick because I'm excited to get back to messing around with what Google Forms can now do. It started here:
@MathButler @Jstevens009 @MrVaudrey DUDE! gmath on forms addon works for responses now?!?!?
— Dan Bennett (@dabennett7) April 18, 2015
Even before this, I knew Dan Bennett was a genius. The "oh I just stumbled onto it" bit doesn't work on me, buddy. You're the man. OK fine, but what does this really mean for math teachers? We can now ask questions that elicit handwritten responses, graphed responses, responses with fractions, radicals, exponents, OH MAH WORD.
The steps to awesomeness:
1. Create a Google Form for an assessment of your choosing.
2. Install the g(Math) for Forms Add-on
3. Click on "Deploy g(Math) for responses to this Form"
The steps to awesomeness:
1. Create a Google Form for an assessment of your choosing.
2. Install the g(Math) for Forms Add-on
3. Click on "Deploy g(Math) for responses to this Form"
4. Give Google permission to own you (they already do, so this is a reasonable trade-off for what you're about to do)
5. On the right-hand side of the form, a column will pop up. Click the blue button that says "Deploy".
6. Click "Set Trigger on Form Submit". This will convert all of the responses to images, which will be incredibly handy.
7. In the g(Math) colum, there is a hyperlink that says "Deployed URL". Click on that and share it as the link for students to take the assessment.
8. The students complete the assessment with g(Math) hanging out alongside them the whole time. Like this:
9. At the bottom of the g(Math) column, there is a place to copy the image location (to later be pasted) into the response box for whatever question the student is working on.
10. Do 12 push-ups, 7 sit-ups, and high five your closest neighbor. You're about to get excited.
10. Do 12 push-ups, 7 sit-ups, and high five your closest neighbor. You're about to get excited.
11. Once they're done, students will click "Submit" and you get to sit by the response spreadsheet and dream about giving Google a math hug. A really, really, big one.
It's still a baby, so I'm sure there are kinks to work out, but this just made life better. For real. Speech to math, LaTex integration (for those of you smart enough to use it), and so much more. I'm giddy.
Richard Byrne, founder of Free Tech For Teachers, also did a post on this and it's worth checking out.
Happy "Finding Someone Who Is As Excited As You About Math" Fishing
Richard Byrne, founder of Free Tech For Teachers, also did a post on this and it's worth checking out.
Happy "Finding Someone Who Is As Excited As You About Math" Fishing
RSS Feed
