Creating an Auto-Graded Multiple-Choice Google Form

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If you've read my post on Google Forms Tips and Tricks, then you already know that I think Forms is an awesome app. So, how do you create a Google Form that grades itself?

Auto-Graded Google Form quiz setup

Let's say I'm making a Google Form assessment to determine if my students know what Jellicle Cats can/cannot do in the cinematic masterpiece/Broadway hit, Cats. I only need to give them one question. Let me show you what the setup for that would look like:

One mean word about Cats and I will never help you with Google Classroom again. Just kidding... I'm nicer than that. 

But wait! This can't be a quiz-- there are no points. Fixing that is simple.

On the top right is a little cog that, once clicked, takes you to the settings menu for your form. 

In that settings menu, you're going to see three options: General, Presentation, and Quizzes.

General



General: Allows you to edit general settings:
  1. Turn on/turn off collecting email address (leave this turned on)
  2. Send response receipts (I leave this on so students stop asking me if they did their work)
  3. Control whether or not participants need to be signed in (leave it to "restrict to users in Houston County" if you're one of my coworkers)
  4. Limit to 1 response (do this so students don't do quizzes a million times and you only have to worry about one response per kid.
  5. Respondents can: In the image, you can see that I selected "edit after submit." You only want to check this if it's a form that you think might take an extended amount of time. This is the workaround to providing students extra time on a form even though they're meant to be answered in one sitting. If you would prefer to make them do it in one sitting, uncheck this.

Presentation


Presentation: Gives you more control over what the students see on your form
  1. Turn on/off a progress bar: shows students how long they have left to go on the assignment. I usually leave this on. 
  2. Turn on/off shuffle question order: This is more useful when you're doing work in person. It prevents students from getting the same form as every other student (the questions are shuffled).
  3. Show link to submit another response: I limited my quiz to one response, so I can't enable that. This option is for forms that you're cool with them doing over and over again. 
  4. Confirmation message: If you want to give them a personalized message when they've finished (possibly with instructions for what to do next) you can type that message here. 

    Quizzes


    Quizzes: Allows you to turn the form into a quiz.
      1. The first option says "make this a quiz." Marking the form as a quiz allows you to assign point values to questions and enable auto-grading.
      2. Locked mode on Chromebooks: DO NOT ENABLE THIS RIGHT NOW. OUR STUDENTS ARE WORKING FROM HOME AND NOT ALL ON SCHOOL MANAGED CHROMEBOOKS.
      3. Release grade:
        • Immediately after each submission: I would not recommend doing this unless you 100% know what you're doing. It means that students will instantly get their grades without giving you a chance to look at it first.
        • Later, after manual review: This automatically turns on email collection and will allow you to release their grades after you look over them, leave feedback, etc. 
      4. Respondent can see:
        • Here you get to decide what a respondent can see when you return the form to them. This is useful for allowing re-takes and corrections.

      Setting up the Answer Key

      Let's revisit our Google Form now that I've set it up as a quiz:



      1. This is our question: Which of the following choices describes a Jellicle cat? (Spoiler alert: the answer is, "Jellicle cats can and Jellicles do all of these things.")
      2. This tells us what kind of question we've made. Our question has choices, so it's multiple choice.
      3. If we wanted to add more choices, we'd do it here.
      4. I've marked the question as "required." This means that students cannot submit the Google Form without providing an answer. 
      5. This is where we click to assign points and tell Google which answer is correct.
      1. This is where you put your point value. I do my best to make sure every quiz adds up to 100 points because I hate math. Since our quiz is one question long, this response is worth 100 points.
      2. This is the correct answer. To mark it as "correct," I click on the circle beside it. If I wanted, I could mark them all as correct because Google doesn't limit how many choices can be correct.
      3. After I marked it as correct, I decided we should do our best to educate our students who get this question wrong, so I clicked on "add answer feedback." 


      1. The first screen that shows is the "incorrect answers" menu. We know it's for "incorrect answers" because it's underlined.
      2. I typed in a cue to have students go re-watch the opening song from Cats so they could re-learn what Jellicles can and Jellicles do.
      3. I clicked on this Youtube button, and found a video of the opening song from Cats and inserted it into my feedback here. 
      4. I hit save and then went back to give feedback for correct answers.
      1. We know it's feedback for "correct answers" because it's underlined.
      2. Any student who knew the answer made me proud, so I let them know that.
      3. I hit save and my answer with feedback is good to go!
      Now we can see our answer with feedback in its full glory!
      1. Our points are set at 100
      2. The correct answer is marked
      3. We've given feedback for correct answers
      4. We've given feedback for incorrect answers AND a link for re-teaching the material
      5. Now, we're going to click "Done" and it'll take us back to the Google Form's edit page. 
      After checking that "what's your name?" is marked as 0 points, we're good to give our quiz and go grade it!

      Click here for my post that explains how to grade an auto-graded Google Form. 

      Until next time,

      K. Hanlin

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