Streamlining Assessments in a Post-COVID Academic Environment
Quick facts
Industry: Education
Established: 2014
Location: Illinois, Chicago
Elgin Community College (ECC) is a comprehensive, fully accredited public institution.With 11,000 students and over 66,000 diverse alums, ECC foster a strong sense of community and commitment.
The U.S. Department of Education also recognizes ECC as a Hispanic-serving institution.
About Elgin Community College
Elgin Community College is nationally recognized as a Leader College of Distinction by Achieving the Dream, Inc., for its commitment to helping low-income and minority students succeed.
In 2021, The Aspen Institute named ECC one of the top 150 community colleges in the U.S., an honor it also received in 2013, 2017, and 2019. ECC is the only community college in Chicago that has achieved this recognition multiple times.
In 2022, ECC was a semifinalist for the 2023 Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence, highlighting colleges with outstanding student outcomes, including retention, completion, transfer, and equity.
The Challenge
As a community college professor in Illinois, Antonio faced the challenge of transitioning quickly to a remote teaching setup during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Delivering assessments in a structured and secure manner was critical to ensuring students' understanding of the material.
The lack of appropriate tools made the task time-consuming and cumbersome.
Managing quizzes, collecting responses, grading, and integrating results into his Learning Management System (LMS) presented significant logistical challenges.
Antonio needed a tool that could automate quiz administration, enhance efficiency, and reduce manual intervention, while ensuring a seamless experience for both students and educators.
Seeking an Automation Tool: Form Presenter as a Solution
Antonio was specifically looking for a solution that could integrate with his existing systems, offer flexibility for both students and teachers, and provide automatic grading functionality.
Antonio turned to Form Presenter, a Google Workspace add-on designed to automate and simplify online assessments.
Using Form Presenter, Antonio was able to:
Automate Timed Quizzes: Create weekly timed reading quizzes for his students, ensuring a fair and consistent evaluation process.
Customization & Flexibility: Easily personalize and modify quizzes, making changes to suit different course materials and student needs.
Automated Grading: Automatically record student quiz grades directly in his LMS, eliminating manual data entry and reducing the chance of errors.
Student Flexibility: Allow students to take quizzes at their convenience while maintaining control over quiz timing, actions, and how the content was presented.
Results
Operational Efficiency: The integration of Form Presenter streamlined Antonio’s workflow, automating the entire process of quiz administration, from creation to grading. This saved significant time and reduced the workload on manual tasks.
Improved Student Experience: Students found Form Presenter easy to use, which enhanced their quiz-taking experience, allowing them to focus on the content instead of navigating complex systems.
Enhanced Teaching Process: The customizable features of Form Presenter empowered Antonio to make quizzes dynamic and adaptable, which contributed to better student engagement and understanding of the course material.
Testimonial
"I am a community college professor in Illinois. With the onset of Covid, I need to transition quickly to software that could help me share content with students in an understandable way. Fortunately, I found Form Presenter! For the past several years, I've used Form Presenter to give my students weekly timed reading quizzes on course material. Form Presenter has been easy for students to learn and use, and it's been easy for me as an educator to learn and use as well! Form Presenter includes many customizable features that allow me to personalize and change quizzes easily, to check students' work, and to assign grades seamlessly. My favorite part is that Form Presenter is easy to synch with my Learning Management System. Students take the quizzes wherever and whenever they want, then grades are automatically recorded in my LMS. I'd highly recommend Form Presenter to any educator looking for an automated quiz system."
- Antonio
About Antonio
Name: Antonio Ramirez
Position: Associate Professor II of History
Campus: Main Campus, B261
Position: Associate Professor II of History
Campus: Main Campus, B261
Antonio Ramirez is an Associate Professor II of History working in Elgin Community College, providing students with in-depth knowledge and guidance in historical studies at the Main Campus.
About Jivrus Technologies and Form Presenter
Jivrus Technologies is a software products company focused on intelligent integration and hyper-automation. Our goal is to connect people and software platforms to streamline processes and drive growth. Our products are designed to provide a seamless and efficient user experience.
“Form Presenter” is an add-on application for Google Workspace Marketplace that presents a Google Form with various configurations for Conducting online Exams for the students simple and fast.