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"While faculty toil over getting that perfect lecture, the variation in learning outcomes from different lectures is negligible. So what did matter? Feedback. Feedback on student work has been consistently shown to be among the biggest influences on student achievement. Yet faculty usually give little thought to how they provide feedback to their students. Many go through a student's work, making margin comments such as "vague" or "grammar" or "needs synthesis.""

"I've found that the best feedback is the kind that can be applied right away. Why wait when we can get help right now with whatever we're cognitively wrestling with? Especially today, where technology is ubiquitous and communication is instant, we can do so much better than tardy feedback."

"Google Classroom has the potential for a variety of assessments within the platform and even more ways to provide feedback to students. The following shares what I've learned using this workflow over the last four years, including some of the new features on the most recent update at the beginning of the 2018 school year. "

What is AnswerGarden? AnswerGarden is a new minimalistic feedback tool. Use it for real time audience participation, online brainstorming and classroom feedback. Who uses AnswerGarden? AnswerGarden has many different users: classroom, conference and corporate audiences, creative teams, online crowds, mindmappers, and more! Benefits of AnswerGarden: AnswerGarden fits educational, professional and creative purposes, is standalone and embeddable, and shows thousands of answers in a glance!

1. Discussion Prompt: Browse the Parlay Universe, create your own topic, or ask our team to create a custom discussion prompt just for your class. 2. Personal Response: Each student reviews the materials provided and submits a unique response to the discussion prompt. ( 3. Peer Feedback: Students join the discussion, provide constructive peer feedback, and build on each other's ideas. 4. Live Discussion: Students delve deeper and build verbal communication skills in a structured and equitable Socratic Seminar. 5. Data Analytics: Review engagement data with the class, and reflect on how to improve discussions in the future. 6. Teacher Feedback: Teacher provides personalized feedback to each student. Parlay makes automated suggestions.

"A new type of video content: Ask questions, multi-choice quizzes, and collect feedback through your videos. Increase engagement: Turn passive viewers into active participants. Improve your content from feedback. Grow your audience: Generate leads from your videos and make them even more shareable."

"InfuseLearning is a breakthrough virtual learner response solution. If you like Socrative.com, you will love Infuse Learning. Students can annotate images, draw responses, respond on devices, and receive feedback from the teacher."

Collect feedback from your audience through cell phones.

"AnswerGarden is a new minimalistic feedback tool. Use it as a tool for online brainstorming or embed it on your website or blog as a poll or guestbook."

"Doctopus is truly the educator's virtual personal assistant. This script is so many things: a virtual copy machine for your Google Drive, a customizable feedback tool and a great way to digitize differentiation. Newly upgraded with easier user interface."

"Pear Deck makes it easy to plan and build interactive lessons directly from your Google Drive that promote active learning in the classroom. As students interact with the lesson, real-time data provides instructors the feedback they need to adapt teaching on-the-fly." Currently in limited beta testing, but you can sign up and be part of the first test groups trying this out.

Learning Bird is an online application that combines smart technology with engaging digital lessons made by real teachers. It uses grade levels, local curricula, textbooks, and lesson feedback to match the best lessons to each student.

OrangeSlice: Teacher Rubric increases the teacher's grading productivity by eliminating repetitive clicks, presenting the rubric selections in an easy to use format and presenting the final grades in a consistent, professional format. More time is created for the teacher to provide the needed constructive feedback their students need for success.

"One of the things teachers do best is collecting evidence. We survey students about their knowledge and use the results to provide feedback to students as well as make adjustments to instruction."

Drag-and-Drop Lesson Creation. Creating lessons on Deck.Toys is fun for you too! Build complete lessons within minutes with your existing teaching content such as study sets, PPT or Google Slides. Differentiate the Right Way. Self-exploration at your students' own pace allows ample practice for mastery of key concepts. Just tap to create unique pathways! Full Control Over Your Lesson Delivery. Activate Teacher Sync and every student will be synced to your current slide. Get real-time feedback from students with Response apps such as Text, Draw, Quick Poll and Placemarker. Track Students' Progress in Real-Time. While students are having fun exploring your lesson, you may track how well each student is doing directly from the map. You may also generate a comprehensive classroom report with the Report app.

"Edit audio anywhere. An experimental audio editor. Copy. Snip. Pan. Record. Flexibly fade volume with envelopes. Apply and move effects (filters, compression, etc.) amongst tracks. And more. Edit while playing for quick feedback. Works online or offline."

"Sketchboard is an endless online whiteboard, powered by your team's ideas. Work with your team in real time and get immediate feedback."

The Answer Pad (TAP) is a multi-platform BYOD (bring your own device) student dialogue system that focuses on real-time assessments. Teachers can register for free, create their class, and sign up their students.

"How it Works 1. Create an Assignment; 2. Create an Assignment; 3. Assign to Students; 4. Receive Live Results; 5. Give Feedback Formative runs on any internet connected device and is optimized for any 1:1, BYOD, flipped or blended classroom."