Mote for Google Chrome™

Sarah Kamalzadeh2021年1月3日

★★★★★5

I've been using Mote for just over a month now and I love it. I can leave feedback on playing tests quickly and I can see which students have actually taken the time to listen to my Mote clips (almost all of them do). It's only been buggy a few times (no lasting issues) and the devs seem to be available to answer questions rather quickly.

Woody J2020年12月23日

★★★★★4

This is a game changer for how I manage my workflow. I teach 9th grade English and often there's just so much feedback these students need, but also such a narrow bandwidth for receiving that feedback, that you're walking a razor's edge between being productive in your remarks and force-feeding them with remediation for which they're in need but unable to receive. Enter Mote. The conversational tone you can strike does wonders for infusing your criticism with the personable tone you might adopt during a private conference with the student. They simply respond with more emotional energy when they can hear your voice. It's less sterile than written feedback (which, I should say, as a traditionalist I prefer - more stable, visible, and accessible over the development of writing portfolios), but even the best feedback is useless if students don't receive it. With this extension, you receive reports for how many students saw that you left a voice note and how many students listened to your notes, which is a real boon for holding students accountable. It also simply speeds things up. In the premium version, which my school purchased, you have 90 seconds of audio per comment, which I've found pushes me to make my remarks direct and concise enough to fit in that window. I rarely use more than one comment per assignment, and pairing these voice notes with Google Rubrics is a brilliant marriage for your efficiency. The only thing I'd like to see is some sort of application of this principle for apple users. My school issues its faculty Apple products but subscribes to Google's education suite, which presents integration issues like this. The magic bullet will be when we're able to record voice notes AND leave written feedback that integrates with Google Classroom's iPad text editor. The versatility of editing a page directly shouldn't be ignored for its useful visualization of how ideas grow over the course of a written text, but if we could narrate those images for students while offering our remediations for student work, this sort of resource would be absolutely revolutionary for managing the teaching of writing.

Mark Rentflejs2020年12月17日

★★★★★5

I love this extension. It makes feedback for students so much easier...Too often, students avoid reading comments or they get lost in the words, length, etc - likely due to a history of seeing written comments as critical/negative. But they respond to the verbal feedback in a much more positive and relaxed way. I've been super happy.

Albert Chun2020年12月16日

★★★★★5

I love Mote - it's an incredible time-saving app. First, I get to leave 90 seconds worth of feedback to my students. Second, it transcribes my words into text - this is great for my students with special needs. Third, there is this mode called "STEM mode" where it writes out my equations the way I would normally write e.g. it transcribes "equals" as "=". Fourth, they also translate my text into a couple dozen languages - this is great for my English Language Learners and families. It makes leaving feedback, sharing newsletters, a much more equitable and time-saving process!

Ash2020年12月11日

★★★★★5

I LOVE THIS! I'm a teacher and this is so helpful for younger students or students with reading comprehension deficits! I even encourage them to download the extension on their school-issued laptops so they can leave me voice comments! I think every teacher should download this!

Sandy Shortt-Hawley2020年12月7日

★★★★★5

Loved this app! It is a great way to deal with glitches in "reader". You simply read the slide and the information that you want to share with students. You may use several per slide! This has been a very useful app so that all students have access to the information! Thanks for making such a useful tool!

Boni Adriano2020年12月4日

★★★★★5

Mi trovo molto bene...utile e semplice da usare

Andreea Babarusi2020年11月23日

★★★★★5

Very usefull to talk with the students.

Danielle Carlson2020年11月22日

★★★★★5

I LOVE mote. My AP Bio kids have a digital lab notebook this year, and I give them lots of feedback. I get tired of typing everything out, especially when it's the same thing over & over- this speeds me up greatly. I love being able to provide verbal feedback (and many kids do better HEARING vs READING), and if it's the same comment for another student, I can simply copy/paste the link onto the next notebook. One of the best extensions I've found this year and will continue to use moving forwads.

Szabó Ferenc Miklós2020年11月19日

★★★★★3

It doesn't work well in Google Classroom. I can't send private comment to a student. It seems to work, but the recorded message doesn't appear.