Giving Faster Feedback in Digital Documents
If you are anything like me, grading is sometimes so time-consuming. I love the idea of not hauling papers all around and giving feedback digitally, but at times found the comment tool cumbersome within Google Docs. So I end up printing papers home and handwriting comments which I'm pretty sure my students have a hard time deciphering my chicken scratches as I attempt to give feedback so quickly.
I found a recent blog post about a teacher who set up shortcuts in their Google Docs preferences which made grading really slick.
I love shortcuts so I tried it this past week and I'm a convert. I wanted to give feedback on a new skill for my students and obviously didn't want to print out all of their papers that were turned in via Google Classroom.
I'm often giving feedback that tells a student to "be more specific", "go deeper", "support with evidence" or "circle back to show how your evidence proves your claim". If you are an ELA teacher, you may point out punctuation, sentence fragments or bad grammar.
If you click on Tools -- Preferences, you can design your own comments to appear when you see these frequent mistakes.
For example: You can set up your preferences so that when you type "frag" into a Google Doc and hit the space bar, it can auto correct to your predetermined comment: "This is a sentence fragment. Please revise to make a complete sentence".
Watch this video to show how you can do this.
You can set up these preferences to have an unlimited amount of comments which requires a bit of forethought as you determine your coding system that works for you. I highly suggest using the suggesting mode in Google Docs which will make your feedback green and returning their work via Google Classroom after you've left feedback (or you will still technically own the document and they won't see your comments).
I found a recent blog post about a teacher who set up shortcuts in their Google Docs preferences which made grading really slick.
I love shortcuts so I tried it this past week and I'm a convert. I wanted to give feedback on a new skill for my students and obviously didn't want to print out all of their papers that were turned in via Google Classroom.
I'm often giving feedback that tells a student to "be more specific", "go deeper", "support with evidence" or "circle back to show how your evidence proves your claim". If you are an ELA teacher, you may point out punctuation, sentence fragments or bad grammar.
If you click on Tools -- Preferences, you can design your own comments to appear when you see these frequent mistakes.
For example: You can set up your preferences so that when you type "frag" into a Google Doc and hit the space bar, it can auto correct to your predetermined comment: "This is a sentence fragment. Please revise to make a complete sentence".
Watch this video to show how you can do this.
You can set up these preferences to have an unlimited amount of comments which requires a bit of forethought as you determine your coding system that works for you. I highly suggest using the suggesting mode in Google Docs which will make your feedback green and returning their work via Google Classroom after you've left feedback (or you will still technically own the document and they won't see your comments).
Comments
Post a Comment