Are you ready to check grading off your to-do list? I won’t lie, my first few months back in the classroom post-maternity leave were rough. The exhaustion, frustration over lack of time, not being the mom or teacher I wanted to be, all left me feeling crushed under a weight that I just couldn’t escape. Can you relate? Check out this amazing #teacherhack, a self-grading quiz, that changed everything…
Are you ready to check grading off your to-do list? As a new mom, I needed a way to gather valuable data for my students, and still, have the energy to be “mama” when I picked my baby up from daycare. Self-grading quizzes made all that possible, and I can’t wait to share what I’ve learned with you.
Self-Grading Resources Save Time
Grading took a significant amount of time, and giving less work to my students wasn’t an option as our district has strict requirements for assessing. Unless I took action, it was clear that nothing was going to change. Tired and defeated, I poured over teaching strategies and productivity hacks to find ways to be even more efficient.
The exhaustion, frustration over lack of time, not being the mom or teacher I wanted to be, left me feeling crushed under a weight I couldn’t escape. Can you relate?
Teaching is tough, grading doesn’t have to be.
This led me to the biggest game-changing #teacherhack of all time. It felt too good to be true, but time and time again, I was able to use this new strategy to access immediate student data without lifting my favorite purple flair pen.
Does any of this resonate with you? If so, I’ve got your simple solution: Self-Grading Assignments and Quizzes.
Self-Grading Quizzes Provide Immediate and Organized Data
Digital activities (or quizzes) that grade themselves the instant a student hits the “submit” button are called self-grading assignments. All scores will appear in an organized spreadsheet ready for you to use. You can even see a breakdown of which questions were correct/incorrect. This breakdown is incredibly helpful when forming strategy small groups and pulling students for review.
Benefits of Immediate Feedback
Student scores began increasing because I was able to meet with kids the same day they took they took their self-grading assessment. This allowed me to give meaningful and timely feedback to each student. Somedays we even met 1-1. (My class size was 29. I can’t tell you the last time I actually had the time to meet 1-1 with every student in a day). Relationships with my students were better than ever because I could actually invest the time I wanted to help them flourish.
Bonus: with grading off my plate I had extra time to invest in my family too. (…and I sure as heck wasn’t dragging a stack of papers back and forth anymore.)
So, forget the piles of paper. Forget tossing a stack of ungraded assignments in your teacher bestie’s recycling the day before report cards are due. Forget the long hours of grading. Last but not least, definitely forget taking your students’ work on a joy ride to and from school multiple times before getting it all graded.
Self-grading assignments can eliminate all of that for you with just the click of a button.
Assignments and quizzes that actually grade themselves are REAL and they will change your year.
Interested in learning more? I’ve put together a FREE guide just for you to get started with self-grading quizzes. Click the button below to grab your FREE copy of “A Teacher’s Guide to Self-Grading Assignments.” Start saving time today by saying goodbye to grading!
