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How to Use the New Microsoft Forms - www.office.com/setup www.office.com/setup Blogs: Have you seen the new Microsoft Forms? One of the most popular articles on my blog in the last 12 months was related to its predecessor - Excel Surveys. Not only did that post get a lot of views, but it also got a lot of comments from people with questions about the features of Excel Surveys, or more importantly for some, the features it did not have. You can still use Excel Surveys, but Microsoft are in the process of transitioning to something better - Microsoft Forms. This version includes automatic grading and built-in student feedback. Here's what you need to know. GETTING STARTED You can find the homepage for Microsoft Forms by going to forms.office.com, or you may see Forms listed in the Office 365 App Launcher. Both links go to the same place. Technically, Forms is still in Preview but you can sign in with your Office 365 Education account today and start creating surveys and quizzes. The new Microsoft Forms work on desktop and mobile browsers. Once you are logged in, click the New button to create your first form. Replace Untitled Form with a title of your choice, and add a description underneath if you want to provide any directions or information for students or parents who are filling out your Form. BUILDING A FORM Tapping the Add Question button gives you access to the question types that are available to you in this new version of Microsoft Forms. The options include: Choice: for creating multiple choice questions! Tap or click the slider to allow people to select multiple answers. You can also tap or click the ellipses button to shuffle answers. Quiz: a multiple choice question that you allows you to select a correct answer for automatic grading. Tapping the comment icon on each answer choice lets you add student feedback for each selection. Multiple answers and shuffled answers are also available to you when working on Quiz questions. Text: to collect

This is a great site with information and tips on how to involve parents in your classroom.

www.office.com/setup Blogs: Today, we are pleased to announce the availability of Microsoft Forms for our Office 365 Education customers. Forms is the result of direct feedback from educators that they want to have a quizzing function with Office 365 Education. Educators told us they need an easy way to assess student progress on an ongoing basis. They also told us they want an assessment solution that will save them time, help differentiate instruction for all students and provide quiz takers with real-time personalized feedback. We designed Forms to be super easy so that anyone could confidently create a form and easily see results as they come in. Forms lets anyone with an Office 365 Education account create and/or respond to quizzes. What makes Forms unique and so valuable for educators is the automatic grading and in-quiz feedback functionality. Automatic grading does exactly what the name implies and greatly reduces the time spent grading. In-quiz feedback is a feature that lets quiz authors personalize messages depending how a student answers a question. For example, if a student answers a question incorrectly they may get a message, such as: "The answer is incorrect. I suggest you review chapter four as this will be on the final." HOW FORMS WORKS When an instructor wants to assess how well the students understand a given topic, they can quickly author a quiz directly from their desktop or mobile web browser. The instructor simply determines the questions they would like to ask and then chooses an answer type, such as multiple choice, text or a rating. The Forms authors can then send a link or QR code to quiz takers or embed the quiz into a web page, blog or Learning Management System (LMS), and recipients can complete the quiz on phones, tablets or PCs. And with the real-time feedback in Forms, the instructor can very quickly see where the class may need additional instruction or could advance more rapidly. Forms responses can also be exported to Mi

This website provides activites such as concept maps, lessons, and various activites taylored to the grade you are teaching and the subject matter. There are various catagories for teachers, parents, and students to obtain a vast amount of information.

A website for teachers and parents to help kids learn.

This is a website for an organization that helps students to stand up for the books that they enjoy reading that are banned by their schools, parents, and communities.

This is a website designed to give teachers and parents a list of books for children.

Resources for professional development, teacher training, and parent education, consultation and speaker services, books, and free online resources from award-winning speaker and author Dr. Jane Bluestein

This website is from the US Department of Education. It is a survival guide for new teachers. It instructs how to deal with parents, veteran teachers, and provides other information that will help within the first year of teaching.

This is a website designed for parents and teachers designed to educate them about the appropriate nutrition for growing kids and what not to feed them.

A site for teachers that gives lesson plans, activities and advice for learning to write creatively!

What is Censorship?

Banned Books Week: Celebrating the Freedom to Read is observed during the last week of September each year. Observed since 1982, this annual ALA event reminds Americans not to take this precious democratic freedom for granted. This year, 2008, marks BBW's 27th anniversary (September 27 through October 4).

In correspondence with the New York Times, this website provides recent news relevant to education issues, lesson plan archives and daily lesson plan updates. The website has three categories; teacher connections, student connections, and parent connections.

Lesson planning site! This site is specifically used for giving teachers ideas of connections for using in their lesson plans.

A website for teachers to buy heavily discounted items for their classroom and students.

Teachers and educators should be familiar with the school's policies and procedures for dealing with book challenges and should be prepared to follow the procedures.

This year marks the 27th annual celebration in support of literary freedom, the weeklong Banned Books Week is sponsored by The American Library Association (ALA).

Are our children being exposed to objectionable material?