#3 Google Slides Duplicate Paperless Worksheets: Everyone's Homework in One Place

 

My students (and their parents) are all familiar with using Google Classroom after 18 months of stop-start home study due to the COVID pandemic. Because of this, it is now quite easy to create and send digital worksheets to students for homework whether they are studying at school or at home. They are quite comfortable accessing files through their Google Classroom Stream or Classwork.

Of course, one easy way to send a digital worksheet is to make a copy for every student in the Google Classroom Classwork and send it like that. Every student receives an individual copy of the Slide deck, then completes the digital worksheet on the Slide and turns it in for marking. This is fantastic. However, there is another way to send homework and a couple of good reasons for doing so: Simply post one Slide deck with the digital worksheet duplicated as many times as you have students. The video below shows you exactly how to do that and what key points to look out for, including adding task instructions and training students to understand their input can be monitored through Version History.

So, that's how to make and use paperless Slide worksheets within one Slide deck. And what exactly are the benefits of doing this? Why not just make a copy for every student?

If you make a copy for every student of a slide deck in the Classwork  section of Google Classroom and you have 30 students, you will need to open 30 slide decks when they are turned in. It doesn't take too long to do that, of course, but it does take more time than simply opening up one slide deck. Teachers are always looking for ways to save time!

Furthermore, when students know their work will be seen by their peers as well as their teacher they are encouraged not to rush or produce 'lazy' work. Knowing their peers can see their work, students will be more inclined to make a good job of it. 

And finally, if everyone can see everyone else's work within the one Slide deck, you can encourage peer-evaluation and feedback using the comments tool. 

So, making duplicate paperless worksheets within one Slide deck sometimes has some advantages over making a copy for every student.