Why leverage digital reading logs?

As distance learning continues, digital reading logs have become an invaluable resource for educators. These digital logs allow educators, students, and guardians to easily track details regarding what books a student has read, how many hours they have spent reading, dates reading was completed, and more. Using digital forms to share and collect reading logs presents educators with countless opportunities to improve and streamline their communication with students, including: 

Link to digital reading logs from a website, blog, or email

Digital forms can be filled out and completed from anywhere, eliminating the need for students to hand-deliver, scan, or email documents. Using the GoFormz Public Forms feature, inks to digital reading logs can be easily posted to a school or classroom website, or shared via email, allowing students to access and submit reading logs from anywhere. Teachers leveraging digital reading logs can easily track the number of submissions their digital form has received in real-time, granting further visibility into student progress. Learn more about sharing digital forms with our Public Forms feature here. 

Add form logic to digital reading logs to enforce data capture rules

Digital forms not only streamline the delivery of logs and assignments, but also improve the accuracy, legibility, and completeness of digital reading logs. For example, digital reading logs can be easily equipped with simple logic and instant calculations, to improve the accuracy and completeness of submitted data. With instant calculations, digital reading logs can automatically total the number of hours a student has read. By equipping digital reading logs with digital Signatures, teachers can prompt parent/guardians to sign off on the hours and material their student has read – these digital Signatures can even be made Required. Learn more about adding logic to your digital forms here. 

Accelerate and standardize the flow of information

Leveraging Automated Workflows, digital reading logs can be efficiently processed and intuitively stored. Your digital forms can be instantly routed to administrators, teaching aids, and parent/guardians, and stored in the Cloud. Your digital reading logs can even be uploaded to connected applications and used to create or update corresponding records. For example, a completed digital reading log could update a specific student’s folder within Box, based on their name, classroom, or teacher. Learn more about Automated Workflows and digital form integrations here. 

Digital forms provide educators with countless opportunities to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their organization. Leveraging the Public Forms feature, your digital forms can be easily shared online with students, to be filled out, and completed anywhere – an especially powerful functionality for distance learning and digital classrooms.

To learn more about using digital forms in your school or classroom, check out our free eBook, ‘The Top Digital Forms for Teachers’.