An Easy Way to See Students' Typed Answers in Google Docs

 I know I'm not the only one to use this method, but here's how I create highlighted answer blanks in Google Docs. This makes it easy to see their answers when you assign it as "Make a copy for each student" in Google Classroom.

Here's how it looks when they type in the box:

To create that box, I just insert a 1x1 table and then fill it with a light color. The animated GIF below shows the process. 

Once you make one answer blank like this, you can select it, copy it and then paste it in each question in your Doc.