For teachers, grading quiz results for papers manually is definitely a hard job. Google Docs provides a good way for teachers to create online quizzes for teaching and learning, you can view the last posts about creating quizzes and sharing quizzes with Google Docs. But teachers, do you know how to grade the quizzes automatically? If you don’t know, this tutorial will give you the details.

Google Docs supports 7 question types: Text, Paragraph text, Multiple choice, Checkboxes, Choose from a list, Scale and Grid. Only multiple choice questions created by Google Docs can be graded automatically. This tutorial will show you the steps to grade the multiple-choice quiz with Google Docs.

Step 1 – Enter answer key

To simplify the grading work, take the quiz yourself before any students take the quiz. Enter the right answers for the quiz and then click Submit.

Step 2 – Invite learners to take the quiz

To simplify the grading work, take the quiz yourself before any students take the quiz. Enter the right answers for the quiz and then click Submit.

Step 3 – Using Formula to grade the quiz

1. Now go back to your Google Docs. You will see your quiz as one of your saved documents. Click on it and you’ll find all responses in a spreadsheet.

Column A shows the date and time of each response, you can view when the quiz-takers take the quiz. Column B shows the student ID which identifies the unique student and all of your questions in subsequent column C, D, E.

2. Grade each question with IF formula

• The IF formula is similar with Excel, the syntax for the IF function is:=IF ( test, then_value, otherwise_value ) test – a value or expression that is tested to see if it is true or false.

  then_value – the value that is displayed if then_value is true.

otherwise_value – the value that is displayed if then_value is false.

• Input question 1, 2 and 3 by sequence to column F, G and H to store the score for question 1, 2 and 3.
• In cell F3, enter “=if($C3=$C$2,100,0)”, and then select and drag the cell to the end of the question column7. You will see the score of question 1 for each student is graded automatically.
• Then, enter “=if($D3=$D$2,100,0)” and “=if($E3=$E$2,100,0)” to G3 and H3, and do the same steps as F3. After these, you will view the score of each question for each student.

3. Summary the score for each student

Input Total Score to column I to store the total score for each student.

In cell I3, enter “=sum(F3,G3,H3)” to calculate the total score for each student, and then select and drag I3 to I7. Each student’s score for taking the quiz is shown on column I. You saved all that time for grading the quiz with the Formula!

Step 4 – Export the quiz score

Google Docs lets you download the quiz score spreadsheet as CSV, HTML, Text, Excel, OpenOffice and PDF format. By clicking File -> Download as, you will get the score report with ease.

You also can view the summary with graphs charting. Particularly for knowing how much knowledge students master, the summary response is great – especially since you can always click “see complete responses” and have them available to you immediately.

Google Docs is really a useful tool for teaching and learning at the aspect of creating quizzes for assessment. Besides Google Docs, You can create Flash quizzes with QuizCreator and track the quiz results with its QuizCreator Online.

At the last post about creating online quizzes with Google Docs, I showed you the steps to create online quizzes. In this post, I will guide you to share the quizzes you created and then invite others to take quizzes.

As soon as you’re done and your quiz form has been saved, you can go ahead and close this window. Your form will feed into a spreadsheet in Google Docs. The spreadsheet is private by default, even though your form is public.

If you wish, you can share the quiz spreadsheet with others or publish it, but the choice is yours. You can also go in and manually add data to your spreadsheet without having to rely on the form or use the data to make charts. About sharing quiz spreadsheet online to let other take the quiz, there are 2 ways: embed the quizzes to blogs or websites and Email others the quizzes.

Embed the quizzes to your blogs or website

You can embed the quizzes on your blogs or Web site and let people take the quiz in that way.

Simply click More actions which is on the upper right corner, and then select Embed.

After you open the Embed dialog, please copy the codes and then paste into your blog post or website.

<iframe src=”http://spreadsheets.google.com/embeddedform?key=tlwj1KPDoLecvzRyqDu8CFw” width=”760″ height=”680″ frameborder=”0″ marginheight=”0″ marginwidth=”0″>Loading…</iframe>

If you want to share the quiz on your blog, just log in your blog and paste the code to the post you want to embed under the HTML mode.

If you want to embed the quiz on Website, just paste the page to the web page. By default, the quiz you create is 760*780, you can also resize the embed area by modifying the number of width and height.

Email others the quizzes and invite them to take quizzes

The Email this form button lets you email the quiz to specified persons. You can input the email addresses one by one with commas spaced, or you also can choose the email from your contacts.

After that, click Send to send the quiz invitation to these users to invite them take the quiz. Then, the quiz-takers can view and take the quiz in their E-mail address or by clicking the quiz link.

Also, you can send the quiz link directly to others with the link at the bottom of the page. And then send the link to others.

Tip: Custom the quiz confirmation information

By clicking “Edit confirmation”, it will let you edit the confirmation information which appears after quiz-taker finish the quiz.

In the next post, I will show you how to collect and grade the Google Docs quiz results automatically.

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