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Overview
A simple, easy to use screenshot can be a valuable tool for progress monitoring in your classroom. It is an image of a point in time, that is easily captured, and then can be used for data analysis.
Directions
- A screenshot is simply an image of the entire screen on your device (device, laptop, tablet, phone, and probably soon, your watch).
- It is easy to capture a screenshot, usually done through a multi-key combination. Here are the screenshot capture combinations for the most common platforms.
| iOS | Home + Sleep |
| Mac | Command + Shift + 3 |
| Chromebook | CTRL + Window Switcher |
| Android | Volume Down + Power for 2 seconds |
| Windows | PrntScr to capture then Ctrl+V to paste |
| SmartBoard | Use the Screen Capture Toolbar |
- What can you do with a screenshot?
- Accountability - A student can take a screenshot of their screen to show what they have accomplished. The image can then be placed into a shared folder or emailed to a teacher. Files have time stamps but there is also usually the date and time visible on the screen.
- Portfolios - Often saving a presentation of an actual digital file of student work in a portfolio is complicated. You need to consider sharing, permissions, file types, possibility of editing. However, sometimes a screenshot is the simplest and fastest way to capture the work.
- Academic Rigor - Use a screenshot to capture student work then ask them to expand on it.
- For example, students capture their work on a screen, paste the image into a Google Doc and then they explain what they are doing and why.
- Or perhaps they found an image from a particular point in history. A picture says a thousand words, so what does the image tell them? Take a screenshot, paste into a Google Doc and describe what they see and why.
- Screencasts - Screenshots are also a great tool to create other tools.
- Creating a how-to screencast? Take screen shots of each step of the process and paste them in to a Google Slides presentation. Then use Screencastify or SnagIt to make a screencast.
- There are many more sophisticated tools to capture screenshots and variations of screenshots.
- SnagIt on a Chromebook can capture the whole screen, a region of the screen, and even a long web page that scrolls beyond the bottom of the screen.
- Windows 7 and 8 have the Snipping Tool to capture a region of the screen.
- What if student work is not digital? Consider just taking a picture with the Chromebook or phone and uploading into Drive.
