Edmodo Snapshot Tool: Free Common Core Based Assessments

OK... so the Common Core has been a challenge for many over the last few years, but hopefully this tool will make your life a little bit easier!

Edmodo has been a growing LMS (Learning Management System) for the last few years and it has grown to be a very useful tool in that short time. It is available on the web and as an app for just about all devices, and it creates a safe, teacher controlled environment that students and teachers can use to extend their learning outside the traditional walls of their classrooms.

In Edmodo, teachers can share links to websites or materials, post reminders, updates, assignments, and even host inline discussions. In addition there has been a custom quizzing feature that has allowed you to create your own quizzes that you can use to assess your students. The quizzes are saved so you can use them again, and they also can grade themselves and display the results data in some very helpful ways. It even adds students' results to a grade book.

It gets better though! Edmodo Snapshot has just been added to Edmodo for you to use. It is free and just becomes a part of your existing Edmodo account if you have one. What it is, is a collection of questions for Grades 3 -12 based on Common Core Math and ELA standards. You can assign "snapshots" to your students and they show up as a quiz that needs to be taken. The quizzes are based on and aligned with the Common Core so it is great practice for the exams.

As much as I hate the thought of practicing by taking tests, this is the world we live in right now, and this tool can help you give your students practice on these types of assessments, while also providing you with data that can show how your classes are doing on particular standards. You can also drill down to individual students and see how they perform.

Hopefully this data can be helpful to guiding instruction in covering topics that students have trouble in or pinpoint areas a particular students is struggling in to help devise a strategy to help them.

I think Edmodo is a great tool, and this Snapshot tool makes it even more appealing to me. Check out the short video above describing what it is, and if you are interested take a look at the video below to learn more about how to use it.

Here is a great video from Megan Wall on YouTube: