Over the past few years, many teachers have become enamored with the use of Google Forms to create a quick online quiz or formative assessment. However, when it came to grading that assessment quickly, there was something missing, and the speedy process fell apart. Then came Flubaroo, which has since become one of the most popular Google Forms add-ons ever made. What is Flubaroo, you ask? Well, if you haven't yet heard of this fantastic time-saving add-on, please read on and watch the video tutorial below for a three-minute walk-through on how you can grade as many Google Forms assessments as you want, and do it much quicker than the time it took to create the form.
Flubaroo is an automated way to take all of the submissions your Google Form has received and grade them all at once against the Answer Key that you created. So, you must take the quiz or assessment yourself first, then submit it and, after you install the Flubaroo add-on, you will run through the Flubaroo step-by-step setup and tell it which submission is the answer key (your submission). Finally, Flubaroo does what it does best. It grades all of the student quizzes in one pass, and within less than a minute you have the student scores, which are graded. Scores below 70%, for example, are highlighted in red.
A new tab in your Google Sheet is automatically created called "Grades." This is where all of your graded submissions appear. Once you enable the Flubaroo add-on within your Google Form, then you have access to all of its capability. The next step is that you can e-mail the grades to your students. Click on the Add-ons menu from within the Google Sheet, then click Flubaroo>>Email Grades. The message to your student(s) is optional, and so is the option to include the list of questions and scores. Click "Continue" to complete the process.
If Flubaroo is the first Google add-on you have used, it is a perfect example of how powerful these additional scripts for Google can be, enabling a host of additional powerful features that weren't previously available. Give this one and try and see just how quickly you can speed up the grading of your online assessments. You may even want to try some additional add-ons in the future.
If Flubaroo is the first Google add-on you have used, it is a perfect example of how powerful these additional scripts for Google can be, enabling a host of additional powerful features that weren't previously available. Give this one and try and see just how quickly you can speed up the grading of your online assessments. You may even want to try some additional add-ons in the future.