Use the Drop Down Menu for Differentiation in Google Docs

Not too long ago Google Docs introduced drop-down menus. These are great for project management, and Eric Curts has used them for close reading lessons. 

Today I was supporting an MYP Design class. The teacher had a table with questions on the left side and a response cell in the middle (see above). I don't have examples of the questions she asked, but here is what she spent a lot of time on:

• clarifying the questions she wrote
• adding answer prompts
• clarifying vocabulary.

I was thinking about how using a Google Sheet could let her change the questions by using a drop-down list. Then I remembered that Google Docs has that function as well. 

Google Docs

In the Insert menu, there is an option to create a dropdown list. Using this, a teacher can make a list of questions and change them. They could be asked in a different way, or the vocabulary could be changed. 

The first example I thought of was for Japanese. The level of kanji could be changed based on class ability. 

I thought about the situation when there are students who speak another language in the class. For example, would it help if the teacher added the other foreign language to the list of questions?

For this example, if the teacher wanted to do this same format, I would suggest putting the drop-down menu in the cell above the response cell. If the cell is too small, the whole question will not display and will be cut off where the cell ends.