Crystal Ong, a math teacher in a local Singapore government school, uses Goodnotes Classroom to monitor and mark student work in class as they’re working. Because they know Ms. Ong can see them work in real-time, students are more motivated to keep on track, and ultimately more engaged in the lessons.
This practice has become so integral to their class time that students will even actively ask Ms. Ong to check questions they’ve just completed.
*Please note that “Smart Groups” are now called “Smart Clusters” in the Goodnotes Classroom app, and “Annotate” is now “Feedback”
Key Steps:
- In Teaching Mode, tap the Feedback icon in Goodnotes.
- Select the "by questions" option to view each student's work.
- Examine the students' work and provide feedback:
- Check for right or wrong answers.
- Circle errors or areas that need improvement.
- Provide written comments or guidance.
- Give marks or scores to the students' work to provide positive reinforcement.
Transcript
Hi, I'm Crystal. I'm actually a maths teacher in a local government school in Singapore.
I think one of the features that I enjoy about using Goodnotes is the instantaneous feedback feature, where I can actually mark students’ work on the spot. Once I give them time to finish their work, I can check in on every student's work and I can give them the right or wrong, or even circle where they make the errors during class time. And this will help students to learn faster and much better during the maths lesson.
First of all, you would go to the Teaching Mode where you click “Feedback”. And then over there you can see each of the student's work. You can actually choose to check in on their work by questions.
You click the one "by questions" and then what you can do is, you may see one of the student's work here, which I have already given a take. You may want to do smart groupings. And so if you have the standard answer or if not, let me just go to one of those that has not been marked.
So we take a look at the second question, because this student took a longer time to do his work. So I can actually, finish marking question one, scroll through to the rest of the student's work and come back to this one. And you can take a look that, the student actually wrote her rating -19, -45, which is correct. Just a missing detail. If I want to go to 45 degrees, it's like I can actually tell the student to write the degrees unit needs to be written.
All right. If you would like to, you can also give marks to the students, and students can actually feel this little success. And it encourages them to learn more. Because students know I'm monitoring their work now, where I can check on them as and when I like, they are a little bit more on the toes. And I want to say the engagement level has increased because they would need to finish their work. Once I check that it's not done and I shout out to the names, they will be like, oh, I'm sorry, I should get back to my work now.
Students also like the feature because they actually want, for example, some of my second one students, they are quite cute. They will tell you that. Can you give me a take? I want to know whether I'm right. Yeah. So they would actually ask for the feedback themselves as well. So it changes the relationship that we have during the teaching.
