Generic Entrance/Exit Tickets Part 1: 12 Days of Techmas, Day 4

12 Days of Techmas, Day 4: Generic Entrance/Exit Tickets Part 1

Entrance and Exit Tickets have grown significantly in popularity because of their wide range of utility. They are great for formatively assessingstudent learning, they are a good classroom routine for the first or last 5 minutes of class when the teacher is otherwise busy, and they are easy to set up.

Google Forms is a digital tool that works great for entrance/exit tickets. Used incorrectly, they are fussy and time consuming. Teachers feel like they spent more time creating and checking the tickets than they would have if they had just used paper. But what if you only had to set up the digital ticket once, and used the same one all term long?


Generic Entrance/Exit Tickets to the rescue!

[Lazy teacher's tip: click here and make your own copy of the form without having to follow the steps below. The form and results spreadsheet will both copy into your Google Drive.]
  1. Create a Google Form*, and name it Entrance/Exit Ticket.
    *There are so many other tools that would work, too, but Google Forms is easiest and most familiar to most teachers.]
  2. First question: "Name" and make it of type text/short answer
    By asking for the name, you are making it so student can share devices/phones if needed.
  3. Second question: "Today's Date" and make its type "Date."
  4. Third question: "Class Period" and make it multiple choice (Options: A B C D or whatever.)
  5. Make three text-based questions. Don't write in the questions. Just call them #1 #2 #3.
  6. Set the options so that students must log in.
  7. Get the shareable link, and publish it somewhere where students can access it (Google Classroom, Moodle, etc.)

    Pro tip:     Go to tiny.cc and create a custom url like "tiny.cc/reeveticket". Make a paper sign and hang it above your whiteboard.
You have now created a ticket that you could use every day all year if you wanted, no adjustments necessary! At the beginning or end of class (or both!), pose three questions -- ANY three questions -- related to your class content. The student results will be dumped into a spreadsheet for easy review later.

In the next "12 Days" post, I'll give you a few tips about how to streamline the data review process, so that the you can quickly scan the results to see how a class did!

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