Assessing Student Learning with iPads

By: Rachel Hall and Amy Austin

eClickers

Grade: All levels Price

Host App: $24.99 Student App: free (allows up to 32 students)

Location: App Store Description: Personal response system that

allows teachers to poll their students. Teachers post their questions on the host app Students use the free app to answer the questions Poll to show the answers

Application: Use during a lesson or after a lesson to see what students understand.

How to use eClickers

Edmodo

Grade: Applies to any grade. Price: Free Location: App Store. Description: Website for teachers to use

to communicate with students. Application: Teachers can post

assignments, and discussion questions.

http://www.edmodo.com/home

Socrative

Grade: Middle and High Price: Free Location: App Store Description: Teacher creates the questions and

shares the code with the students to answer the questions Short answer questions, quizzes, multiple choice

questions, space race, exit tickets Multiple choice questions graded for you

Application: Use at the end of lessons to see what the class has learned and see what you need to work on the next day.

How to use Socrative

Mobile Mouse Lite (Remote/Trackpad for the iPad) Grade: Applies to any grade. Price: Free Location: App Store

Download Mobile Mouse Server from website: http://www.mobilemouse.com/index.html on your computer.

Description: This app allows you to control your computer or other device with your iPad.

Application: You can pass this around to students to let them control the mouse on the computer.

How to use Mobile Mouse

Polldaddy

Grade: Middle and High Price: Free Location: App Store Description: Surveys, polls, and quizzes

Teacher sets up the poll, students enter answers

Generates and shares reports Application: Use at the end of the unit to

see what the students learned and what activities they enjoyed.

How to use Polldaddy

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Internote

Grade: Middle School and High School Price: Free Location: App Store Description: Internote lets you store and

share handwritten notebooks, memos, illustrations, bulletin boards, etc. with your friends or with public. Must register to Internote cloud

Application: Can let students use the app and share their work with you and other students.

Internote

Internote

Speed Grader

Grade: Middle and High Price: Free Location: App Store Description: Grade assignments turned in

by students on the app Organize assignments by class Leave a comment by typing or talking, grade

by giving a number Application: On assignments submitted

by through computer

How to use Speed Grader

TeacherKit

Grade: Applies to any grade. Price: Free Location: App store. Description: Personal organizer for the

teacher. Application: You can use this to help keep

track of students’ grades.

Teacherkit

TeacherKit

Showme

Grade: Middle and High Price: Free Location: App Store Description: Personal Interactive Whiteboard Application:

Students can explain labs, experiment, or do math problems by drawing, writing and recording their voice.

Students can share this on the web and make it viewable by the teacher.

Teachers can grade student work and leave voice comments as to why they received that grade.

Showme

Nearpod

Grade: Middle and High School Price: Free Location: App Store Description: This app allows you to use your iPad to manage

content on students’ iOS devices. It combines presentation, collaboration, a real-time assessment tools into one integrated solution.

Application: Create Content: Teachers log in to www.nearpod.com to create

multimedia presentations with interactive features such as quizzes, videos, polls, drawing tools, and more

Engage: In the classroom, teachers log into the Nearpod iPad app to share content with their students and manage the flow of the lecture. Students use the Nearpod app to receive curricular content, participate in activities and submit responses.

Assess: Teachers receive real time answers and can log into www.nearpod.com to retrieve assessment after sessions.

How to use Nearpod

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Percentally

Grade: Elementary, Middle, High Price: $2.99 Location: App Store Description: Tally counter that converts

tallies into percentages automatically Application: Can be used for tracking

behavior, tracking educational goals, and tracking completed assignments.

How to use Percentally

Three Ring

Grade: Applies to any grade. Price: Free Location: App Store Description: This app allows you to take

pictures of student work and keep track of them online.

Application: You can use this app to assess projects and other student work.

Three Ring

Super Duper Data Tracker

Grade: All grades Price: $1.99 Location: App Store Description: Monitors and track

student’s progress. Application: You can use this app when

students are explaining things to the teacher. You can also track student’s progress without students knowing your grading them.

How to use Super Duper Data Tracker

QuizCast

Grade: Applies to any grade. Price: Free Location: App Store Description: This app allows you to build

quizzes and assessments for your class to access.

Application: You can use it as formative or summative assessment.

QuizCast

QuizCast

Guardian Eyewitness

Grade: High School Price: Free Location: App Store Description: Daily pictures of

objects, and events from all over the world.

Application: Have students reflect on the

daily picture and then research the picture.

Guardian Eyewitness

Guardian Eyewitness

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HMH Math on the Spot

Grade: Applies to any grade. Price: Free (you have to buy videos) Location: App Store Description: This is a collaboration

of videos explaining math concepts. It is aligned wit the Common Core.

Application: You could use this in centers and have students explain what they learned.

Math on the Spot

Math on the Spot

Idea Sketch

Grade: Middle and High Price: Free Location: App Store Description: Create mind maps, concept

maps, and flow charts that turn into text outlines or vice versa.

Application: Students can jot down ideas for papers and idea sketch will turn it into an outline.

How to use Idea Sketch

Math!!!

Grade: Any Grade Price: Free Location: App Store Description: This App allows you to

practice math problems on your iPad. Application: You can use this app to allow

students to do math problems and share them with you and other students.

Math!!!

Math!!!

Strip Designer

Grade: Middle and High School Price: $2.99 Location: App Store Description: Creates comic strips

using photos from your iPhoto Library, the camera on your phone, or pictures downloaded from the internet.

Application: Students can document their science

experiment as they go along When the experiment is over, add text

to explain what was happening.

How to use Strip Designer

Sock Puppets Grade: Applies to any grade. Price: Free Location: App Store Description: This app lets

students create skits, recording their voices with the sock puppets.

Application: You could use this in any content area to allow students to explain problems or content.

Sock Puppets

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Google Earth

Grade: Middle and High Price: Free Location: App Store Description: Allows students to

explore different places around the world.

Application: Take a virtual field trip of a place, then have students tell the who, what, where, when and why of the place they visited.

How to use Google Earth

Screen Chomp

Grade: Applies to any grade. Price: Free Location: App Store Description: This app lets your

students record ideas, explain concepts, and share them with you and other classmates.

Application: You could use this to collect student answers to questions.

Screen Chomp

Screen Chomp

Quick Voice

Grade: All grade levels Price: Free Location: App Store Description: This app records memos, lists,

and anything you want for seconds or hours.

Application: Students narrate experiments or describe

projects Teachers record their comments for papers,

projects, etc.

QuickVoice

Video/Camera

Grade: Applies to any grade. Price: Free Location: Already installed Description: The video and camera

feature on the iPad can capture student work and be used in creating projects.

Application: Students can use iMovie to edit material and share it with you and the class.

Third graders using iMovie

Writer’s Hat Grade: All grade levels Price: $0.99 Location: App Store Description: This app is an idea

generator to inspire creative writing.

Application: Use during writing time to see how in depth students can go into topics that are randomly assigned to them.

Writer’s Hat

Writer’s Hat

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Screen Shots

Grade: Applies to any grade. Price: Free Location: Already installed Description: Students can use this feature

to capture what is on the screen of their iPad.

Application: Students can send specific screen shots, about topics that are being discussed, to your email for assessment (scavenger hunt).

Prezi Viewer

Grade Level: Middle and High Price: Free Location: App Store Description: View and present Prezi

presentations Application:

Students can present their Prezi presentations to their neighbors and get feedback before presenting to the class.

Present to class on a subject they have been researching.

How to use Prezi Viewer

Poll Everywhere Grade: Applies to any grade. Price: Free Location: Online Website: www.polleverywhere.com Description: This website allows you to create

questions for your class to answer in either short answer, or multiple choice format.

Application: This is a great way to get instant feedback on what your students know and understand.

Poll Everywhere

Educreations

Grade: All Grade Levels Price: Free Location: App Store Description: This is an interactive

whiteboard that lets you record your voice, add text, add photos, etc.

Application: use for all subject areas Math Science Social Studies Language Arts

How to use Educreations

QR Reader

Grade: Middle and High Price: Free Location: App Store Description: This app allows

you to scan QR codes that link to web pages.

Application: Check homework answers Use in centers Upload assignments