Tools that can be used in online assessment
Online assessment, also known as electronic assessment, is an evaluation of the students' knowledge, abilities, behaviors and characteristics. This test is conducted over the internet by using available web technologies.
Several tools can be used for evaluating students, here you can find some of them.
1. Google forms
Google forms is free online software that allows you to create surveys and quizzes. It's simple and quick to create and automatically grade quizzes. It is easy for students to answer questions, typing a fast text answer, or posting a short YouTube video.
2. Mentimeter
Mentimeter is an online tool which can add an interactive element to a lecture, presentation or recorded session. It's free to use and lets you create and host live quizzes either from templates or from scratch. It comes pre-loaded with education templates for the classroom like a listening skills assessments and icebreakers.
3. Kahoot
Kahoot is a game-based assessment tool. Students love Kahoot's game-based approach to learning and assessment. Students can create their own Kahoots to share with classmates creating an interactive experience. Also students can plan the assessment games by themselves or as a team, and teachers can add multiple choice or true/false questions to the games.
4. Socrative
Socrative is one of the top-rated assessment tools for teachers . It is an interactive digital tool that lets you quiz, grade, and assess on-the-fly. Teachers can choose from quick questions or full quizzes for deeper understanding. This tool lets you create activities and shuffle questions, with or without students names attached.
5. Google classroom
Google classroom is an online tool that allows teachers to set assignments , have work submitted by students , to mark and to return graded papers. Also used by teachers to check streamline summative and formative assessments to manage classes.
These tools are highly beneficial as it facilitates our work as a teachers, and it open for us a new door for teaching in the future.
ReplyDeleteThese tools you already mentioned are very beneficial. I am newly introduced to Kahoot. I think presenting it to students will be a very good idea since it is game-based tool.
ReplyDeleteIt is our responsibility as teachers to monitor students' comprehension of lessons, to ensure that no one falls behind, and to assess them using such assessment tools.
ReplyDeleteThe tools you had mentioned make the learning process more effective. For instance, through recordings that are present on google classroom students can review and take a look about what they had missed.
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