If you are a VCE teacher in the throes of preparing your students for the final exam, I don’t need to tell you how much time you are spending marking practice exams this week. What I do need to tell you is that if you are marking multiple choice questions manually you’re not spending your time; you are wasting it.
ZipGrade is an app that lets you point your iPhone at a multiple-choice answer sheet, and ding! Correction done! It highlights incorrect answers, calculates the overall score and lets you export the data both as a PDF to hand back to students, and as a CSV (Excel) file for your own records.
It’s blindingly fast. A class-worth of papers will be marked in under a minute!
I’m no a fan of multiple choice tests. But as long as we are working in a system that requires us to use them, I’d prefer to see teachers spend their valuable time on something more creative than grading papers!
Couldn’t agree more. While multiple choice tests are not what I support this is a clear example of that saying “If a teacher can be replaced by a machine they should be”! No point wasting valuable time doing mindless tasks if they can be done quicker and probably more accurately by this system.