Sharing Digital Activities

In need of activities students can complete and submit to you digitally? Learn how to customize, share, and assess our interactive activities.

Watch the quick how-to video below, or click here to get specific instructions on how to:

Access the activities
Assign to your students
View student responses
Return grades
Import grades into Google Classroom

Opening and Customizing Digital Activities

Hover your mouse over the activity you’d like to share and click Interactive. Choose the level of the activity (if multiple levels are available) and then click Open. You’ll get a popup asking you to confirm that you’d like to copy the activity. Click Okay and it’ll be copied to your Google Drive. From there, you can either view and edit this quiz before assigning it or assign it directly in Google Classroom.

If you want multiple choice questions to be graded automatically, edit the activity by going to the Answer key section of any question and assign it a point value. For selected-response questions, the answer key is already built in, so entering these point values allows Google to grade the correct responses and add the appropriate number of points.

If you want to give your students the ability to submit unfinished work and come back to complete it at a later point, click on the settings icon at the top of the page and check Edit after submit.

Assigning the Activity

You can easily assign our digital activities whether or not you use Google Classroom. Here’s how:

If you are outside of Google Classroom:

Click SEND at the top of the screen.

You’ll get the option of emailing all of your students a link to the activity or copying a link to it which you can then paste into whatever program you use to share links with students.

If you are in Google Classroom:

Go to the “Classwork” section of your Google Classroom and click Create -> Assignment. Then click the “Add” button in the assignment to add in the activity from your Google Drive.

Viewing Responses

Once your students have completed the assignment, you can view each of their work within Google Forms and grade any constructed response questions. Here’s how to do that:

Open up the activity you assigned in Google Forms. (You should be able to click into it from your assignment in Google Classroom, or find it in your Google Drive.)
Click the Responses tab at the top to see a list of Student responses. If you don't see a Responses tab, make sure you're in editing mode: Just open up the Google Form you assigned and click on the pencil icon on the bottom right of the screen, and then you should see the Responses tab at the top of the page.
In the Responses tab, click on the Individual button. That's where you'll be able to look through each student's response.

Returning Grades

When you’re done with grading the Google Activities, there are a few ways you can return the scores to your students:

If you are outside of Google Classroom:

In the Responses tab of the form, you’ll see a Release Score button at the top of each student’s response. Click that, and you’ll be able to send an email to your student with their final grade, as well as any feedback you’d like to give.

If you are in Google Classroom:

When you're looking at the assignment, there should be a list on the lefthand side with the name of every student that returned the activity, along with their grades. (You may need to enter the grades in this area yourself, or you could have the option of importing the grades from the quiz — that depends on how your school is set up with Google.)

You'll see a RETURN button at the top. Click that button, and then students will be able to see their scores in Google Classroom, without them having to check their email accounts. They'll find their scores if they click into the assignment, and also if they go into the Classwork tab and click View your work.

Importing Grades into Google Classroom

Depending on how your school is set up in Google Classroom, you may also have the option of importing grades directly from the Form. To do that, click Grade Importing when you create the assignment in Google Classroom.

Then, once the forms are completed by the students, you’ll see an Import Grades button for that assignment in Google Classroom. Click on that to pull in all the grades for the class.