4 Good iPad Apps for Seamlessly Managing Students Assignments

July 25, 2015
Below are three good iPad apps for teachers to use to create, distribute and share assignments with students. There are several other apps out there with more or less similar features, but based on our experience from the numerous reviews we covered in the past, these apps are particularly ideal for teachers keen on enhancing their teaching workflow. besides the grading features, the apps offer a variety of collaborative features perfect for paperless classrooms.

1- Skaffl

Skaffl is an excellent iPad app for teachers. It allows you to seamlessly distribute and collect assignments from students. You can also use it to create classroom activities and save them for distribution when you need them. The app supports annotation and commenting, two essential features for creating interaction around assignments.

2- Socrative Teacher

‘Engage, assess and personalize your class with Socrative! Educators can initiate formative assessments through quizzes, quick question polls, exit tickets and space races all with their Socrative Student app. Socrative will instantly grade, aggregate and provide visuals of results to help you identify opportunities for further instruction. Save time and visualize student understanding when it matters, now!’

3- TeacherKit

‘Over a million educators worldwide trust TeacherKit with managing their time and activities. TeacherKit helps you organize classes and students easily. Create a seating chart, record attendance, log behavior, and track grades all with few taps. TeacherKit lifts the headache of routine administration, allowing you to focus on what really matters to you – teaching.’

4- Turnitin

‘Everything you love about grading with Turnitin is now available on iPad, allowing educators to Grade Anywhere™. Teachers using Turnitin's grading tools save time grading student papers while offering more meaningful feedback and ensuring their originality.'

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Handouts- A Great App for Creating, Collecting and Grading Assignments Paperlessly

July 22, 2015
Handouts is a great educational app to use in your iPad classroom for scheduling and managing assignments paperlessly. As a teacher, you can easily create assignments and distribute them to students who, in their turn,  complete and hand them in from within the app without the need of any printouts. ‘With Handouts, thousands of teachers are skipping the copier, saving time and money. Teachers take pictures of their existing paper assignments (or import PDFs from Dropbox, Google Drive or iCloud) to schedule, distribute, grade, and track uncollected assignments.’

If you have assignments or worksheets in a cloud-based storage platform such as dropbox or iCloud Drive you can easily import and use them on Handouts. Besides drawing and text annotation tools, Handouts allows you to keep track of your uncollected assignments right from the app dashboard. It also enables you to grade students' works using different tools including fun stickers. You can send feedback, take private notes and add students achievements to their portfolios. Handouts is ideal a good solution for a paperless classroom.

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