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"Mr. A is always on his phone in class..."

So,, the above quote is true... I'm always on my phone in class.  For one, I take a lot of pictures ( see the previous post, for example ) - my students treat every surface like a whiteboard, and I like keeping track of what students are doing. I also created a Microsoft Form ( http://forms.microsoft.com ) to track learning skills and other observations of learning.  What's nice is that everything gets pushed into an Excel Spreadsheet and I can pull out by day, by section, by student, by learning skill -- and because it's automatically date/time stamped I can also match pictures to anecdotes. When I first opened the form on my phone in the browser, I made sure to click on ADD TO HOME SCREEN in the browser menu so that I could get a button I can easily tap each time I want to make an entry. I teach three sections of Grade 10 Math, so my first question is which section I am adding a note to.  Now, I could have made three different forms but then I would have had thre