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A national study of nearly 12,500 9th graders finds that two sessions of a 25-minute exercise on “growth mindset” can boost students’ grades and their willingness to take on challenging classes. https://t.co/uXJbIGVMUn #growthmindset

— Education Week (@educationweek) August 10, 2019

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Stop "mediocre-izing" --- "[Teach] kids to think critically about everything they read, struggle through texts [and other content] that challenge them, debate things with their peers," and to become invested in the process. https://t.co/9OvKVJISMr

— Greg Lloyd (@MrLloyd025) August 11, 2019

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Need a hook for discussing #FakeNews and drawing the line between fact, bias or opinion, exaggeration or manipulation, and full-on fiction or fakery? Great video!! https://t.co/QCUP0kOJlr

— Greg Lloyd (@MrLloyd025) August 7, 2019

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Summary of Stephen Covey bestseller "7 habits" | https://t.co/fsv5lZgfEa https://t.co/5knxvVv18x via @visually #Visually #infographic

— Cyndi Williams, Ed.D. (@CyndiWms5) July 6, 2019

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Objectives are boring. Can we Imagineer something more engaging? Yep, we can. https://t.co/dM6vO4mvbS #edchat

— Kevin Roughton (@MrRoughton) June 30, 2019

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What to do you think? Is @imkennedyholmes #TheVoice? RETWEET to sound off! pic.twitter.com/dMC2xIzQG2

— The Voice (@NBCTheVoice) December 18, 2018

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Seriously never watching the voice again if Kennedy Holmes doesn’t go on to finals. #VoiceSaveKennedy

— Samantha Ann Hayes (@SamAnnThaHayes) December 12, 2018

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#voicesavekennedy Retweet to save Kennedy Holmes NOW PLEASE! #VoiceSaveKennedy @nbcthevoice @IAMJHUD pic.twitter.com/lXCpRLwfCE

— Kennedy Holmes (@imkennedyholmes) December 12, 2018

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Coming Soon - Assign Quizzes in Classroom

So this is news all over the Web, but I couldn't find an article with both of these images of what the beta design for the new option to assign quizzes from Classroom will look like. Google introduced this feature in June and stated that it would be released sometime in the fall of 2018. Asa of this writing 10/1 it is not live but will certainly be coming soon.

The real benefit is not in the ease of making assignment directly in Classroom or the ability of Google Forms to auto-grade quizzes, but in the ability to lock down Chromebooks so that no other tabs can be accessed during course of online quiz. Whether this keeps students from cheating, or just from accessing and playing with online music or other distractions, this integrated set of options will be a game changer.

See option under arrow for "Quiz assignment"
Image from Google promotional materials

The GIF below shows how to open settings and to lock quizzes once inside the Google Form that opens when you click "Quiz assignment" above.

GIF from Google blog post, "Live from ISTE: 12 Google for Education launches to save time for creativity"

Self grading in Google Forms has been around for a couple years and there are lots of good information and tutorials. There may be better ones available, but a few links to check out include:

"Give feedback faster with Quizzes in Google Forms" from the Google Blog, Jun 29, 2016.

"Self-grading Quizzes with Google Forms and Google Classroom" from Teachers.Tech.

"6 ways Quizzes in Google Forms are getting smarter" from the Google Blog May 10, 2018. 

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Google now lets you hide those creepy ads that follow you around the web. Easy steps you can take to eliminate annoying product ads. https://t.co/bvHPIVsnbx

— Greg Lloyd (@MrLloyd025) January 27, 2018

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