To get the most out of an assessment, you need to know what you're looking for. Using a rubric can help your students understand the assignments in your classroom, and will make your grading process clearer, faster, and more objective and consistent.

A grade book, planner, diary, schedule and resource manager all in one app. Its spreadsheet engine will calculate averages as you input your assessment data. You can insert and edit any kind of information for a class, student and semester visually, no more boring spreadsheets. Scroll, expand, filter, export, import and view your information at any time. No internet connection is required. iDoceo will work with any kind of grading system, you can even create your own. You will not miss you old paper grade book again.

Students should be able to easily create their own learning timelines and share them with each other.This can have a huge positive impact on their overall learning process.

The handy infographic below takes a look at why seating charts matter.

Richard Byrne: Like many of you, when I was in middle school and high school we were taught to create index cards to organize our research. After creating the cards we sorted them into an order to support writing our research papers. That same concept can be applied to organizing research with Google Slides. In the video below I demonstrate how this is done.

An infographic that shows covers of 50 books that would be great for teachers to read.

Blended learning can be a great way to make use of whatever technology tools you do have, rather than needing specific technology that you don't have. Blended learning doesn't require you to have a 1:1 classroom, a certain number of iPads, or particular software, though you can put any and all of those things to use as you choose. Thus, blended learning covers a lot of ground - and in the process it helps to make learning more engaging, effective, and efficient.

Assessments are a part of every classroom, regardless of subject matter or grade level. They come in all shapes and sizes, and they can be used for a number of reasons. Sometimes, the differences between the types of assessments can be subtle. Many teachers will find that some subjects lend themselves really well to certain types of question formats (like multiple choice vs. short answer vs. essay), but the style of question shouldn't be confused with the type of assessment. While there are many more, summative and formative assessments are probably two of the most widely used in education today. The handy infographic below takes a look at the main concepts of each type of assessment along with examples of each. Keep reading to learn more!

Here are 7 ways to tackle the Marzano strategy of identifying similarities and differences.

This web tool allows you to take any YouTube or Vimeo video and insert questions for checkpoints. Free service for multiple choice questions and student progress monitoring.

Many excellent resources for using google apps.

This is a google slides interactive presentation that is a jeopardy template.