Free Choice! - 8/26/12

REFLECTION:  All I can say is OMG!  Why haven't I been doing this?  The time to set up the formulas in the spreadsheet was a bit much, but I'm sure there's a faster way that I can learn.

There are three drawbacks if I were to actually quiz this way:
1.  Not sure how to control cheating.  Students could easily open multiple pages to find answers.
2.  Every student needs internet access.  That means I need to schedule a time in the computer lab, which is always booked, or students need to do this from home, which I'd never assign because of drawback #1.
3.  The answers need to be pretty specific.  No spelling errors, which is good for the Spanish part  for me, but I chose some words that have multiple answers, so I listed them all before I knew what I was doing.  Even if students had all the right answers listed, if they weren't in the order I had listed them or didn't list all of them, this would mark the answer wrong even if they got it right.  That's why I'm back to the drawing board. Hand correcting is just faster in a language because of the multiple ways to say the same thing.  This probably would be a good thing for math.

Still, I've got the wheels turning in my head to figure out a way to make this work.