Do you ever find yourself struggling to find the time to mark assessments, address misconceptions, and provide personalised feedback to each of your students? Practice sets might just be the answer. Coming soon to Google Classroom Teaching & Learning or Education Plus editions, practice sets is an exciting new feature that will help teachers save time and create more interactive, personalised resources.
Create Your First Practice Set
If you haven't already been granted access, soon you'll be able to create practice sets directly within Google Classroom. To get started, go to the top left menu and click "practice sets", which will open your practice sets library in a new tab. This will be empty
the first time, but don't worry, you'll soon fill it up!
Click Create and add questions to your practice sets.
Enter the correct answers or answer choices. You can choose from 4 different answer types. Short answer, single-select, and multi-select allow you to enter correct answers for auto-grading.
Search for and add relevant skills for each question. If your skills are an available option, the practice sets will display extra help and resources for students if they need help while answering the questions, either via text or video help.
4. Click "Try as student" to review your practice sets before assigning.
Once you've created your practice sets, this will appear in your practice sets library. When you create a new assignment on the Classwork page, you will be able to choose a practice sets to attach.
Using Practice Set
Practice sets is a great new tool for creating and distributing assessment activities to support learning and engagement in the classroom. Here are some ways you might use them in your classroom.
Adaptive Teaching
Create different practice sets for different skill levels and/or learning styles to accommodate the diverse needs of your students.
Homework & Independent Study
Use practice sets to review and reinforce key concepts and skills covered in class. They can be used as a pre-assessment, post-assessment, or formative assessment to gauge student understanding and progress.
Review & Reinforce
Use practice sets to review and reinforce key concepts and skills covered in class. They can be used as a pre-assessment, post-assessment, or formative assessment to gauge student understanding and progress.
Cooperative Learning
Assign practice sets to small groups and encourage students to work together to complete them. This can foster teamwork, communication, and problem-solving skills.
Self-Paced Learning
Give students the option to work on practice sets at their own pace. This can help students take control of their learning and increase motivation and engagement.
Monitor Student Progress
One of the most powerful elements of practice sets is the detailed insights dashboard. When reviewing a practice sets assignment, click "Class Insights" to view student responses in detail. You will be able to easily see an overview of individual responses and class trends to help you identify common misconceptions.
By selecting a question or a student, you'll be able to view individual responses, including all attempts. You can also make changes to student scores and mark any paragraph question types that were not auto-graded before giving your students feedback in the same way as in any other assignment.
Try it yourself
Take a look at how you could provide support and feedback to students using this practice sets interactive tutorial! Try here.