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Worksheets, quizzes and assignments

Three short formats for any lesson, ready to print

They differ in length and purpose, not in effort: name the lesson and print.

A grade 10 social studies worksheet open in the editor under a chip reading «worksheet», 105 questions long, showing questions 96 to 100 and four different kinds among them: a sorting question with six cards and three named boxes, a true-or-false with two circles, a matching question with four items, four dashed drop targets and a bank of cards below them, and a short answer on a ruled line. Each question carries its mark and a line of instruction above it.
Four kinds of task in one sheet rather than a page of multiple choice — and the sheet in the picture holds 105 questions.

By the numbers

  • 3

    formats, one editor

  • 23

    question types

  • 120

    questions one sheet can hold

  • A4

    the page it prints to

Three formats, and what each one holds

You pick the format by what it is for, not by what it costs. It costs the same.

A worksheet

  • Exercises ordered from easier to harder
  • Several kinds in one sheet: sorting, matching, true or false, short answer
  • A line of instruction above each question and its mark beside it
  • Ruled space to work under each question
  • Short, usually — and as long as the lesson needs
  • Handed out in the period and checked in it
  • Opens as paper by default

A quiz

  • Ten minutes at the start of a period or the end
  • Mostly closed questions, which mark themselves
  • A mark on each question and a total under the title
  • Opens on a screen by default, prints if you want it to
  • Forms A and B for a room with close-set desks

An assignment

  • Longer questions, worked at home
  • A multi-part question: a, b, c
  • More room for the working
  • Written instructions the student reads on their own
  • Opens on a screen by default

What all three have in common

They are one document: a bank of questions and a way of handing it over.

  • One editor, not three

    The same screen for all three: the String conversation on one side, the sheet at its real size on the other, and one switch that moves it between paper and screen. What changes is the default view, the instructions written at the top and the length you choose. You do not learn a new tool because you moved from a worksheet to an assignment.

  • Closed questions mark themselves

    Sorting into named groups, matching two columns, true or false, choices, a number with its accepted range, orderings and tables all carry their correct answer, written with the question rather than after it, and they mark themselves the moment a student finishes them on a screen. Only a long written answer waits for you to read it, and the sheet tells you how many of those it holds before you print.

  • Paper or screen, same document

    A real A4 page at 210 by 297 millimetres, paginated by measuring each question's height, with a warning when a question is taller than a page. It is one document either way: on a screen every blank becomes a field and every option a control, and on paper each of them becomes something a pen can use.

  • Arabic and English together

    Every question, every option, every label on a figure and every line of instruction is written in both languages, and the page flips right-to-left or left-to-right with the one you print in. Numerals stay Western on both sides, the way every school paper prints them.

From today's lesson to a sheet in your hand

These are all of the steps. There is no hidden sixth.

  1. 1

    Pick the format and name the lesson

    Worksheet, quiz or assignment, then the grade, the subject and the lesson. Nothing to upload and nothing to paste.

  2. 2

    Read the suggestions before they land

    What String proposes waits in a list beside the sheet and joins it only when you say so. Keep them all, discard them all, or one at a time.

  3. 3

    Edit on the sheet itself

    Click a question and type over it, drag to reorder, add a figure the student answers on, edit the masthead where it prints. Or ask for the change in a sentence: “make question 3 easier”.

  4. 4

    Print it, or open it on a screen

    Printing comes out at the size you were looking at. If you want a screen instead, the same document becomes a form the student answers, with everything closed marked as they finish it.

A worksheet is not a small exam

The instructions written above a worksheet tell a student to try every question and that a mistake is not a problem. The ones written above an exam talk about a mark scheme and a clock. Those are the differences between the four formats that actually matter, and each is written on its own, because one paragraph that fits all four would have been wrong on three of them. The tools underneath are the same, and that is what it means to say the difference is in the purpose rather than in the effort.

Common questions

Yes, and every part of a question is editable: suggestions wait in a list beside the sheet and join it only when you accept them, and once a question is on the page you click its text and type over it, add or remove an option, change the order, the type, the marks and the figure — all on the sheet itself rather than in a separate window.

You name the grade, the subject and the lesson before a single question is written, and every question stays editable until you print, so the sheet follows your syllabus because you are the one who described it. You are never asked to upload a book, photograph a page, or wait for your curriculum to be added.

The document is a real A4 page at 210 by 297 millimetres rather than a screenshot laid on paper: it paginates by measuring each question's height, it warns you when a question is taller than a whole page and offers to shrink it, and you can place the page breaks yourself and staple blank pages on the back for rough work.

Yes, and it is one document either way: a worksheet opens as paper by default while a quiz and an assignment open on a screen, and a single control reverses that for any of them. On a screen every blank becomes a field and every option a control, and the closed questions are marked the moment the student finishes them.

Yes, because the answer is written with the question rather than after it: every closed question carries its correct answer, and every numeric question carries its accepted range and the rounding you asked for. None of it reaches the student's copy — a figure whose measurement is the question does not print the measurement.

One quiz is issued as up to 4 named forms — A, B, C and D — rather than a fresh draw for each student: you choose the anchor questions that appear in every form and in the same position, so two students sitting different sheets can still be compared, and the rest rotate. You can shuffle the question order and the option order as well, and you read and print every form before it reaches the room.

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