Assessment using Microsoft Forms!

Greetings & a *Cock-a-doodle-dooooooooooo* New Year to all!

Hope everyone had a good holiday break and start to the new year! For this month's eTip, we will be sharing with you how to collate data on students' learning via Microsoft Forms. It's a simple method to help you gauge your students' progress and adjust your teaching practices to suit the learning pace of your class. Now, why switch to Microsoft Forms (MF) when some of us are already so comfortable with using Google Forms (GF), you say? Well, read on and find out some of the conveniences Microsoft Forms provide when you plug into your O365 account!

MF not only provides the functions we have and are used to with at GF, it provides a good overall view of your students' progress with a time gauge as well as pie charts. MF also tracks how many students have completed your assignment thus far. It keeps a record of all the responses and presents a brief summary of quotable responses you may use in your sharing with other teachers. The responses can also be downloaded into an excel spreadsheet for archiving purposes. For the folks in Creative Arts Department, Microsoft Forms provided a fantastic way for us to get feedback on students' learning after a Learning Journey to a museum. We could track what the students preferred about the journey, the kind of questions they were asking and their favorite exhibit. Recording and retrieving what the students reflected about during the Learning Journey was easy! Interested in knowing how to create a Form? Read on!

Step 1: Access your O365 account with Microsoft and click on the grid icon on the top left hand corner as shown and a drop-down menu will appear. Select "Forms".

Step 2: Select "New Quiz"

Step 3: The interface of a new form may look familiar to some of us, but to those who are unfamiliar, do not fret! The tools are pretty straight forward and simple.

4. "Add Question" enables you to select the type of question you would like to set. 

You can create as many questions as you like with the different types of variations.

If you are curious of how your quiz would look like to a participant, you can click on "Preview" to have a look!

Step 5: Don't forget to title your form! 

Step 6: & Once you are done with the questions, you can choose a theme for your quiz.

Here's how our Learning Journey Review Survey looked like!

Step 7: Now that your form is all set and ready to go, you can start sharing with with both teachers and students using your O365 account's address book! You do not have to worry about adding individual students because you can share your Form with the existing Contact Lists you have already created over in your mail box! Remember that you are able to fully customize the permission settings you are giving to the people you are sharing with.

Once you have shared the form, all you have to do is wait for your participants to respond! You can look at who have responded and what their responses are by clicking on the "Responses" tab:

Check out the average amount of time taken for your participants to complete the Form and the brief summary of each question!

Don't forget you can download a copy in Excel for your own keeping!

You're good to go using Microsoft Forms now!

We hope this eTip was useful for you and have fun creating your own Forms!

We will see you in the next eTip of the month, *Cock-a-Doodle-byeeeeeeeee*!!!!