Today I met with the second grade and special education grade levels during their PLT meetings to go over the use of the Google add-on Formenate in order to easily transfer Word documents or Google Doc into Google Forms. The second grade team expressed that they are currently orally administering all assessments to their students, however, this will change after the end of the second nine weeks. All that time, students will begin reading their assessments on their own unless they have classroom accommodations set up by an IEP or 504 Plan. They currently plan to continue paper/pencil testing at least until the end of the second nine weeks and they will re-evaluate how their students are handling using the Chromebooks before deciding if they plan to go to computer-based assessments. The special education team indicated that they would begin to move assessments for students in grades 3-5 that need to be orally administered to Google Forms using Formenate so that students could use it along with Read&Write. They like that this will give the students additional practice completing computer-based tests before they have to take the online state assessments in the spring. I felt that both sessions went well. I understand the reluctance of the second grade team with moving to online testing with their students at this time. Many of the students are now comfortable using the Chromebooks for educational websites and are beginning to get comfortable using them for online writing projects. I'm sure as they mature, some will be able to begin using online testing as well. The tutorial that I created for use with Formenate is below.
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