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.