learning new ways to EXCEL in the classroom

This past week we learned how to use Excel to make interactive spreadsheets to use in the classroom. This is a great tool that can be used in the classroom in order to give class quizzes or other informal questionnaires to your students. I thought that this activity went pretty well and I did not have many problems when creating the spreadsheet. The two things that you must be careful about are making sure you type in the right logic statement and making sure you unlock the cells the students will be asked the write in. If you do not unlock the cells then your students will not be able to write their answers, ultimately not being able to complete the quiz. The only thing I would change is that I probably should have completed the whole activity on the computer in the classroom. Going back and forth between older and newer versions can be a little difficult because they do not always have the same features in the same places. Overall, this activity went very well and I think that all teachers should learn how to make these spreadsheets. If you have access to computers in your classroom this is an easy way to give a quiz grade and get the responses and grade very quickly.