Duck Soup
Description
eSheet paperless classroom. Create online gradeable activities from your documents.
Teachers usually make copies and pass them out to their students to complete and turn in for a grade. NOT ANY MORE! You can take any document or pdf in your google drive or computer and easily make it an online instantly graded activity. And best of all… your students can write on it like it’s paper!
Pricing
| Plan | Price | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Duck Soup | Free | Free for use. |
Reviews
This tool allows teachers (especially Math and Science) to go completely paperless. It integrates with Google Drive and allows you to take any document or pdf and make an interactive online assignment that is automatically graded. It allows students to write on it as if it were paper (show their work). It also has live monitoring of students as they work on their assignment.
It is currently glitchy for iPads, however there will soon be an iPad app.
I wanted to use this tool to make Eureka Math Sprints accessible for remote learning. Seemed like the perfect solution; just put little boxes where the answers go and enter the answer.
The video implies that this is easy and fast and will save the teacher hours of tedium. For me to create one math sprint sheet would take me at least half an hour, probably more. Definitely more if there are more than 30 problems. I had to stop after 20 minutes just trying to work through my first one sheet.
In class, students write the answers right in their workbooks and we correct the front and back in class. The entire exercise, from “go” to “stand up if you improved” takes less than 10 minutes. You can’t do that remotely, so I thought this might be a work-around.
It turns out to be very tedious for the following reasons:
There are 30-50 questions and each question needs its own little box. Not so bad, I expected that.
1) I need to create each box one at a time. It would go much faster is I could create all the boxes first and then enter the answer.
2) I need all my boxes to be numbers, but text is the default, so I need to go over to the side to change each one to be a number. It would go much faster if I could set the default to a number just once.
3) You have to draw each little box one at a time, set it to ‘number,’ and fill in the answer. This would go faster if it were possible to set the first box to ‘number,’ then copy/paste the first empty box to all 30 positions, then go back and edit in the numbers. That would be really worth getting a subscription.
4) If any of the above IS possible, it isn’t intuitive and there are no instructions other than the tour, and no contact to be able to ask questions.
I was really excited, but not so much any more. Yes, it works. No, I don’t see it saving me time. No, I won’t be posting the link for my teachers to try. I really wanted to, but it isn’t as easy as it says it is.