A free flashcard tool with Quizlet set importing, class options, and self study mode is something I Knowt you will be excited for! 

Let's get started! Go to Knowt

I created my account with the Sign in with Google SSO button (You, and your students should too) 

From your Knowt Home you can create new flashcards, notes video lecture notes, import flashcards from quizlet, and upload files from your drive

Use the search bar to explore notes, flashcards, and textbooks. You can also get to this by clicking "Explore" at the top.

The best part of Knowt is that you can use it's AI to generate flashcards and content for you from websites and tools. You will want to install the Knowt extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/knowt-quizlet-import-ai-n/akegecpdcdbkjioddaingaedacjgfjhm

Once you have installed the extension. You can Import directly from Quizlet, from Videos and websites, and from PDFS. 

Import from Quizlet: 

Have vocabulary in Gimkit? No problem. Export the text from Gimkit to create a flashcard set in Knowt. 

Use Smart Chips and tables inside docs to create custom workflows, resources and materials for yourself and students. Select your creation, create a custom building block and reuse whenever you need! 

1. Create the layout and add the elements you want. I like a table for this. 

2. Add Smart Chips to make it amazing 😍... Don't know what Smart Chips are? Check out my post here. 

3. Select what you want to make a block

I have made a Google doc with a few great templates that you can create custom blocks from. Simply make a copy of my doc highlight my tables (1 at a time) and create a custom block for yourself! I would love to see the ways you are going to use this amazing tool.

📑Copy My Template

Tag People

Date

Files- Insert a chip for a file 

@file- or @start typing the name of the file. You can also paste a link to the file and then press Tab. Note- Be sure the file you chip in is shared with view rights so they can see it.

Even Better... Insert a YouTube Video into Google Docs as a Smart chip and watch in preview mode

Add a timer or a stopwatch 

Voting Chips

Create Custom Building Blocks

Building blocks are pre made templates that allow you to use dropdowns for status tracking, email drafts, meeting notes etc. Now you can create your own building block and save it to reuse and add with a simple @.

Great for Lesson Plans, project management, labs, study guides and more! 

Image Credit: Eric Curts - Ctrl Alt Achieve

The Gist: 

Tips: 

Kami is so much more powerful that just a PDF tool. In addition to it's amazing feedback tools, Kami now supports auto and teacher scored questions (in Beta)! Many of us think Kami is a great tool for assigning students PDF's to annotate... which it is! But you can also build lessons and student activities directly in Kami using the rich tools available in the editor. 

To get started with Kami questions: 

1. Turn on the Beta questions (keep in mind that Beta means it may have a few weird quirks, I'll do my best to point them out as we go through it).

- Go to Settings (upper right profile icon) > Scroll down to Beta Features > Toggle on Questions

2. Create your content! You can bring in your own content with copy paste, insert fresh content with the text, drawing, image tools and more! 

* Pro Tip: Use text recognition on old PDF's to copy and paste content into new text boxes in Kami

3. Insert questions for students 

-Kami has multiple choice, dropdown, or short answer questions you can add anywhere in your document. In the answer key you can set key words or phrases. Kami short answer responses are Not case sensitive. 

4. Use the Kami grade by page feature in Google Classroom to score student's work and add feedback

Here are some details on how auto grading works: 

Multiple Choice, Checkboxes, and Dropdown

Single-answer questions:

- The student's answer that matches the answer key exactly will be graded as “Correct”.

- Otherwise, it will be graded as “Incorrect”.

Multiple-answer questions:
- The student’s answer that includes no correct option will be graded as “Incorrect”, and no credit will be given.

- Besides that, the student’s answer that includes at least one correct option (but includes incorrect options or doesn’t match all correct options) will be graded as “Inaccurate”, and no credit will be given. However, you are able to adjust the points manually when viewing students’ work in Kami Grader.

Short Answer
- When “Allow partial matches” is NOT selected: The student's answer that matches any answer option exactly (the same word order, spelling, spacing, and punctuation) will be graded as correct.

- When “Allow partial matches” is selected: The student's answer that includes any answer option exactly (the same word order, spelling, spacing, and punctuation) will be graded as correct.

- You are able to adjust the points manually when viewing students’ work in Kami Grader.
Additional details here

I'm digging into the Eduprotocols class with the great Jason Cring... If you aren't in the class you're missing out! 

But if you want a few highlights without taking the whole class, you're in luck because here is one Eduprotocol to start now! 

The Fast and Curious Protocol - This is an entry level protocol that can have an immediate impact in your classroom. It focuses on speed and accuracy and student's innate curiosity of their performance to drive impact.

The purpose of this protocol is to teach vocabulary or quick facts. To do this protocol we will use Quizizz ('cause its great! and it checks my tech incentive box this month... see how I did that?)

Here is the set up: 

1. Make or use a vocab quiz in Quizizz

2. On Monday (Day 1) give the quiz to launch vocabulary for the unit. Here are the settings I would recommend: Limit attempts to 1, no redemption questions (the point is to see correct/incorrect answers), show leaderboard. 

    Of course they wont get them all right, they aren't supposed to. Use the teacher dashboard to talk about any missed questions and make a quick lesson out of it. 

    *Technically you are supposed to do the quiz again immediately, but I think that might be a big ask of time. If you want to try it, run the quiz again immediately. 

3. On Tuesday (Day 2) give the quiz again, this time just include the words that students missed on Day 1. Students come in, sit down and do the quiz right away. You can even have it up as they are coming in to complete as a bellringer activity. If you want, you can do the whole quiz again.

4. On Wednesday/ Thursday (Day 3) do the quiz again with any words that were missed on Day 2. The idea is that repetition builds speed and by this point in the week accuracy. If you want you can do the whole quiz again.

5. On Day 4 conduct the final quiz or test. You will see a difference in mastery from Monday to Friday. Rinse and repeat because this is a game changing strategy! 

*Post daily results to show the percentage growth of the class throughout the week!