Audience: Teachers with Seesaw Instruction & Insights
Free Response assessment allows teachers to collect open text responses to formative assessment questions from students, autograde those responses, and aggregate response data in reporting. Teachers can choose Short Answer or Open Ended questions. Short Answer questions are automatically graded. Teachers will see actionable reporting at the class and student level, along with a streamlined manual grading workflow.
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- Tap the green +Add button.
- Tap Create Activity or Assessment.
- In the Creative Canvas, tap Questions to open the assessment creation flow.
- Select the Question Type > Short Answer.
- Select the Feedback Mode Practice Mode or Assessment Mode.
- Type your question in the Question box.
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Type all possible correct answers in the Correct Responses field. See the example below where the correct responses can include variations on names.
💡If Flexible Spelling is not toggled ON, the correct answer must be an exact match to one of the possible provided answers. Multiple variations of correct answers can be entered in by the teacher. Student spelling errors are not allowed. At this time, we only support auto-grading that is not case-sensitive.
- Toggle Flexible Spelling on if you want misspelled responses that are almost correct to be scored as correct.
- Click Save and tap Add to add to the canvas.
- Tap the green +Add button.
- Tap Create Activity or Assessment. Tap Assessment to open the assessment creation flow.
- Select the Question Type > Open Ended.
- Type your question in the Question box.
- Click Add to add to the canvas
Seesaw will auto-grade questions and aggregate poll responses after students respond. Once submitted, teachers will have actionable reports they can review. Teachers can view reporting at the class level or the student level in Progress.
Note: Teachers can make manual changes and updates to autograded work if needed.
What happens if an Activity with Free Response assessment is shared with a teacher who doesn't have Seesaw Instruction and Insights?
In this scenario, the Activities sent to a teacher without SI&I can be viewed and assigned, but not edited. Free Response questions will be downgraded to a label for the question and text Frame with no AI or manual grading option.