Here's how to make my essay title builder for your own class.
My Year 10 unit, Going Global, explores globalisation: trade, TNCs, e-waste, supply chains and more. Each lesson has two parts:
Their findings go into an evidence log, with a source for each one. By the end of the unit, the log is their essay plan.
I made a tool to help students set themselves an essay title for the final assessment. I want all of the students to set themselves a question where they can showcase their understanding of globalisation by examining how different aspects of globalisation impacted their chosen country.
The scope options come from the unit: the whole of globalisation, two aspects compared, or one aspect in depth. Whatever a student picks, I can approve it in seconds. Try it:
Every title builder has the same parts. Once you can see them, you can build one for any essay. The numbers match the boxes in Option A.
The thing each student writes about. Students type or choose their own.
Mine: a country, such as Vietnam
The parts of your topic, usually your lesson topics.
Students pick from these in box 3.
How much of the topic the essay covers. Students pick one level:
For each command term, write a short note for students and one sentence with two gaps: {scope} and {focus}. The builder drops the student's choices into the gaps.
To what extent has the rise of TNCs and offshoring been good for Vietnam?
None of this is really about geography. Change what goes in each box and the same builder writes titles, or research questions, for any subject:
| Subject | Focus | Aspects | A title it could build |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | A war | Causes: economic problems, ideology, the army… | To what extent did economic problems cause the Spanish Civil War? |
| English Literature | A play or novel | Themes: ambition, guilt, power… | How does the writer present ambition and guilt in Macbeth? |
| Science | A process | Variables: temperature, pH, sugar concentration… | How do changes in temperature affect the rate of yeast fermentation? |
| Business | A company | Strategies: marketing, outsourcing, pricing… | Evaluate the impact of outsourcing on Nike. |
There are three ways to make your own. Pick whichever suits you and your school.
Fill in the numbered boxes, using the diagram as a guide. The preview shows what your students will see. Your builder saves in this browser as you type, so the free pack opens it ready to edit, with its embed code.
Everything stays in your browser. Nothing is uploaded.
Good for large or multiple classes: every title lands in one Google Sheet for you to check. It needs no code, just two formulas. The screenshots show an example form with test entries.
Ask for the student's name, then three questions: command term (multiple choice), country (short answer) and scope (multiple choice).
Section 2, "Two aspects, compared": two drop-downs listing your aspects. Section 3, "One aspect in depth": one aspect drop-down and three short-answer boxes. Set "After section 2" to "Submit form".
On the scope question, open the ⋮ menu and choose "Go to section based on answer". Send the whole topic to "Submit form", two aspects to section 2 and one aspect to section 3.
Students only see the questions that match their scope. Someone writing about globalisation as a whole goes straight to submit. Someone choosing one aspect has to name three sub-aspects before they can finish.
In the Responses tab, click "Link to Sheets" and create a new spreadsheet. Each student's answers arrive as one row.
Paste the formulas below into row 1 of the first two empty columns. They fill every row automatically. Then add an "Approved" column of tick boxes (Insert → Tick box) and a "Comment" column.
={"Scope";ARRAYFORMULA(IF(E2:E="","",
IF(LEFT(E2:E,3)="Glo","globalisation",
IF(LEFT(E2:E,3)="Two",F2:F&" and "&G2:G,H2:H))))}={"Essay title";ARRAYFORMULA(IF(L2:L="","",
IF(C2:C="Evaluate","Evaluate the impact of "&L2:L&" on "&D2:D&".",
IF(C2:C="Discuss","Discuss whether "&L2:L&" has brought more benefits than costs to "&D2:D&".",
IF(C2:C="To what extent","To what extent has "&L2:L&" been good for "&D2:D&"?",
"Examine how "&L2:L&" has changed "&D2:D&".")))))}The letters match my sheet: C is the command term, D the country, E the scope, F and G the two aspects, and H the single aspect. If yours differ, ask any AI chatbot to adjust the formulas.
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