Zipgrade is an app made by the husband of a teacher. This is a quality of life upgrade for many teachers! When surveying your class or conducting multiple choice quizzes, this app makes it easy to print your own bubble sheets and scan it with your mobile device! While multiple choice quizzes aren’t great for everything, the powerful tools available here can give the teacher instant feedback on learned material. When you scan an answer sheet it automatically assigns it to a student based on their student number. You can instantly see their performance over time. Also, I have frequently used this as an exit ticket before lunch. When the students return from their break, we can all look at the answer key and which ones gave the class the most trouble. All scanned papers are stored in the cloud, so if a student questions their mark you can quickly check their answers and see if they’ve changed anything.
They have also updated the app over COVID and now support online quizzes. Tools like Zipgrade not only make grading easier for teachers, but the instant data analysis can make it easier to identify and address difficult concepts in the class.
Jonathan Lapierre
Years ago I tried using a PC version which did something similar which I think was called Eyegrade. It needed a multi-page instruction manual just to install it. This is leaps and bounds better.