Automated marking has saved me weeks of time and enabled me to achieve quantifiably better results. This guide shows teachers how they can use automatic marking to improve formative and summative assessment. There's no theory here, just how to do it step by step.

1. Automated
marking
By James Abela
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2. Why Automate?
● Students REMEMBER feedback when
given quickly.
● Only timely marked work can effectively
inform planning of the next lesson
● Saves Teacher time
● Provides hard data
● No formulae knowledge needed
● Ensures all classes cover critical
knowledge
You can mark their work in-lesson or before

3. When to Automate?
● Large number of
students
● Quick Feedback
● Know gaps
● Can recycle
● Small cohort
● Essay type
questions
● No access to
Internet /
Network

4. Flubaroo
Tutorial

5. 1. Create Your Form

6. 2. Fill it out
To create the answer key, just fill out the form
yourself. Points to note:
1. You can include name fields etc
2. You can include an email field
3. You do NOT have to auto-mark every
question

7. 3. View their answers

8. 4. Install Flubaroo

9. 5. Run Flubaroo
Answer if:
● If any questions should not be graded.
● Which questions are for the purpose of
student identification (e.g. name, student
id, email).
● Which submission should be used as the
answer key.

10. 6. Let it get to work
● It will then check a new tab with all the
answers
● It can also email out a report, results &
feedback
● You will also have a complete set of stats
for the quiz / test to help with future
teaching

11. Other Alternatives
● Hot Potatoes - Large variety of tasks,
Instant feedback, but can be tricky to
record large quantities of data
● Socrative - Great for testing in-class
knowledge & works very well with a
Google Spreadsheet
● Code it yourself - Any spreadsheet can do
it with a series of IF commands
● Self Marking
● Peer Marking