Library Challenges and Google Classroom
Test reading comprehension and encourage critical thinking with questionnaires created in Google Forms that you can add to your Google Drive and share with students.
Finding the Library Challenges
Log in to Banzai.org and click Toolkit. Then select Library.
Under Library Challenges, click Visit.
Adding to Google Drive
Under any available challenge, click Add to my Drive to make a personal copy of the Challenge in your Google Drive.
Confirm that you want to Make a copy. This creates your own copy of the Challenge in your Google Drive that you can edit and view as needed.
Assigning Via Google Classroom
Go to Google Classroom to create and send the assignment. In the Classwork tab click Create and select Assignment or Quiz assignment.
Give the assignment a name, then click the Add button and select Google Drive. From the files on your Drive, click on the Challenge that you want to assign and click Add.
Assign the Challenge to students.
Grading the Challenge
If you view the assignment in Google Classroom, you can see who has turned the assignment in and who hasn’t. Click Import Grades to pull in the grades for the Challenges that have been submitted.
The Challenges use a mix of multiple choice and short response questions, so you’ll need to review the short response questions manually—they’ll likely be marked incorrect unless the student entered exactly what’s in the answer key.
*If you don’t want to include short response questions, you can edit the Challenge by opening it in Google Drive and deleting or changing those questions.
To grade short response questions:
Go to your Google Drive and open the Challenge that you’ve assigned
Select the Responses tab.
Select the Individual tab. You can now review each student’s responses. The student’s answers are displayed with the correct answer shown beneath it for each question. If you would like to mark a short response question correct, you can do so by going to the question, clicking on the blank space next to how many points the question is worth, and adding an amount. Ex: If it says " / 1", you can add a 1 to make it "1 / 1".
Save your changes. As you edit the grades, a box at the bottom will pop up that says "Edits are pending." When you’re done grading a student's challenge answer, simply hit Save and the score will be updated. Once you’ve finished grading the Challenge for one student, you can move on to the next by selecting their email in the dropdown below the "Summary" tab at the top of the Challenge or hitting the arrow to move on to the next student.
When you’re ready to input the grades into Google Classroom, simply return to the assignment and hit "Import Grades" or manually enter scores by selecting the score by the student’s name for this assignment and changing it.
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